Re: Big talk timers - they don't do the job intended, get rid of them

Posted by Cedric Lackpot, 2012-05-01 10:46 BST

<A self-imposed timer trips>

First off, removing the delay on replying is very likely an excellent compromise. So the rest of this post is therefore of diminished relevance :)

I think you made an excellent reply Orin, but you missed the point ... twice! Not by much, but let me explain :-

Firstly you quoted an excellent post from somewhere or other regarding moderation. I'm not advocating that kind of moderation, where the end-user is denied the right even to know what is being withheld from him or her - that sort of thing is indeed odious and unwanted. But retrospective editing of BT in the name of maintaining quality need not be a process of withholding, which is why I tried to suggest possible methods that involved the agreement of the author or which moved posts or threads. They're just suggestions of course, but I tried to choose ideas that might leave a trail to the original post.

Secondly you said "I still can't work out why stopping problems before they occur is a bad thing!" Obviously it isn't, but stopping non-problems is. The timers are indiscriminate in what they catch, which is what prompted my post title, that timers don't work properly.

I think the idea of loftier debate is excellent, and I'd like to find a way of implementing it effectively. I don't believe the original method of timers facilitated this. We'll see how the new method works out and hopefully it will fit the bill and kill this argument into the bargain.