[Python-ideas] Clearer communication

[David Mertz]

I have absolutely no interest in any system that arranges comments in
anything but related thread and chronological order. I DO NOT want any
rating or evaluation of comments of any kind other than my own evaluation
based on reading them. Well, also in reading the informed opinions of other
readers.

I would find it useless if not actively counterproductive to follow any
system where such ratings of comments existed.

There is one property that every system invented to supercede email have in
common. They are all dramatically worse in almost every way.

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019, 5:09 PM Abe Dillon <abedillon at gmail.com wrote:

>  [Dan Sommers]
>
>> Another point in favor of email clients over web pages is
>> that there are many of them, and *you* control the display
>> and other preferences rather than whoever wrote the forum
>> or owns the server.
>
>
> There is a tool called the Reddit Enhancement Suite or RES (and probably
> others)
> That lets you control a great deal of the display and other preferences,
> however; I'm not
> sure how that control compares to something like Thunderbird.
>
> One thing that's nice about Reddit is you can link to posts, so if you've
> already discussed something at length in another thread,
> you can simply refer to that discussion.
>
>  [Dan Sommers]
>
>> In an optimal technical discussion, opinions from users
>> don't count for anything.  The ideas stand on their own
>> merits and research and metrics; users only serve to
>> confirm the methodology.
>
>
> A lot can be said about how an ideal world would work. Ideally, we could
> define the meaning of life and good and evil and we wouldn't need this
> clumsy system of laws and courts to approximate the whole mess.
>
> I don't think it's that crazy to think that a voting system might
> approximate merit a little better than the timestamp on a post.
> It's not going to be perfect, but perfect shouldn't be the enemy of better.
>
> On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 3:17 PM Dan Sommers <
> 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE at potatochowder.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2/1/19 2:58 PM, Abe Dillon wrote:
>> > [Dan Sommers]
>> >
>> >> A mailing list is not a feed... Dan, a decades and decades long fan of
>> >> mailing lists and real email clients.
>> >
>> >
>> > I'm only familiar with Gmail which keeps reply chains coherent and moves
>> > each chain to the top of my "forums" tab based on who responded last.
>> > I haven't explored the various email clients available, can you suggest
>> one?
>>
>> I used mutt for a long time, and then claws-mail, and now
>> thunderbird.  They all met my needs, although I did give
>> up on claws-mail when I got a hidpi display (claws-mail
>> based on gtk2, which doesn't grok hidpi displays).
>>
>> Another point in favor of email clients over web pages is
>> that there are many of them, and *you* control the display
>> and other preferences rather than whoever wrote the forum
>> or owns the server.
>>
>> > [Dan Sommers]
>> >
>> >> Whoever posted last ends up at the bottom of the thread, so that I can
>> >> read threads from top to bottom in chronological order.  Getting the
>> >> last word in shouldn't earn a spot at the top of the list.
>> >
>> >
>> > That doesn't like any closer an approximation to a merit-based solution
>> to
>> > me.
>> Perhaps not all by itself.  Many/most email clients allow
>> individual users to "score" emails by various criteria, and
>> then to display higher scoring messages "above" the others,
>> or not display certain messages at all.  Personally, I don't
>> use the automated systems, but they're very comprehensive
>> (arguably too complicated), and again, *user* adjustable.
>>
>> In an optimal technical discussion, opinions from users
>> don't count for anything.  The ideas stand on their own
>> merits and research and metrics; users only serve to
>> confirm the methodology.
>>
>> Dan
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