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[Barry Warsaw <barry@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 01, 2010, at 10:36 AM, Gavin Panella wrote:

>I haven't done any measurements, but my feeling is that most bugs only
>have a handful of comments. More than 20 comments and it's starting to
>get unwieldy, more than 50 and it's silly. I don't think it's possible
>to claw back sanity from such a bug by reordering comments.

I agree.  Some more bug comment management tools would be useful for these
occasional very chatty bugs.  Things like hiding previous comments, voting on
and hiding low vote comments, etc.

>I also personally find that oldest to newest is more natural. I find
>newest to oldest disorientating and frustrating, but I have sensed in
>the past that I'm towards the extreme end of the spectrum in that
>regard.

I agree with you, certainly for linear conversations (e.g. bug comments).
What I find interesting is that in my mail reader, I prefer newest-oldest for
new threads of discussion, but *inside* the thread oldest-newest.

-Barry

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