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It's annoying to go back to old ideas where a person has responded to another's annotation, the second half of a joke, perhaps, but the annotation that it was responding to is gone. I propose a dependant annotation automatic deletion feature. When using the annotation link, the page would load with a
number in red next to each annotation. A drop-down list would let a person select an annotation number. When that number was selected, if the annotation the person was responding to would be deleted, the response anno would be too.
This is only an option; your annotations can be non-dependant if you want. There should be more than one drop-down list, perhaps four, for multiple responses.
"Don't Delete My Annotations" Option
http://www.halfbake...estruction_20Option
Probably an even worse idea, but it's a different approach. [fogfreak, Oct 17 2004]
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Hmm. Clever idea. Probably not an important enough reason to go to all the trouble to implement here. Might be useful on other threaded sites, though. |
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[bristolz] I agree, I wouldn't want to have to put Jutta through all that trouble. It would take a lot of effort. |
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Good point [waugsqueke]. Maybe everyone just should have gotten here sooner? |
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Or, of course, we could go back to a newsgroup thread-style interface, and have some kind of cascading destruction if an earlier annotation in the thread is deleted. I think I prefer the swiss cheesing. |
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This would take some pretty serious AI capability to do with text, I imagine. |
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I think the halfbakery works about as well as can be expected of any forum, just the way it is. If it were to be implemented then the annotation response capability could be dependent upon a "reply to" tag. The annotator merely clicks on the tag attached to the anno to which they are referring. We use something similar on one of our websites, for 'branching' of jobs. |
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If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Please. I beg of you. |
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Would just having an index number beside annos be of use? Would they be more useful if, once the number was used, it couldn't be re-used? Readers would know at a glance that the continuity was disrupted and writers could reference a specific anno by number. |
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No, not as elegant, but maybe useful. |
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If there were an "annotate" link on every (now numbered) annotation, the system could post the new annotation with a small "in response to annotation 12" or, in the case of an annotation that disappears, "in response to annotation 12, since deleted." |
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Of course, it is really quite good now as it is. |
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Giving the ability to 'attach' one annotation to another turns this place into a threaded message base. That will do what you want. However I think it's clear from other conversations that we don't want a threaded message base here. |
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As I said on another similar idea, I don't get what the problem is with orphaned annotations. I certainly don't think a minute should be wasted developing a system to remove them. Hell, I've certainly done my part to create enough of them. |
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Ok then, I'm sorry. I do have another solution for this problem, though. I'll post it as a seperate idea, link it to this page, and then shut up. Promise. |
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