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To: SI Brad who wrote (1240)5/2/1998 5:08:00 PM
From: David Lawrence   of 32918
 
Glad to hear there's a whiteboard working!

>>1) make it universally easier to send a private message in direct response to a public message

That has to be an option regardless of any others. The same as you have now, except put a Private Message shortcut in each public message, and an option in the Private Message editing window to automatically refer to the original public message if desired. I'm guessing that would be relatively easy to implement.

>>2) allow the poster to *append* a short response...

I see some problems with the append-after-the-fact options. Thread continuity is lost for those who don't go back to look for appends. The "View Replies to the Message" takes care of correcting, appending to and reviewing each sub-thread.

>>3) allow the author to designate his/her message as "off-topic". Allow the reader to select an option to ignore these off-topic posts.

An excellent idea, especially if the Reader had the option of toggling on a thread-by-thread basis via bookmarking. I might be able to start reading the Ascend thread again. If course, it's very dependent on the author to designate the off-topic nature when they submit. It will also be important that each thread sets out a charter that describes what is and/or is not on-topic. (as a side note, some old, active threads really need to have their charter cleaned up or updated).

>>>4) create a special class of forums (perhaps moderated by members) that explicitly state that no off-topic discussion or "thank you" one-liners will be permitted.

Moderated forums. I'll reserve comment on that one for now.
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