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[Matthew Revell <matthew.revell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5 July 2011 16:20, Andrea Corbellini <corbellini.andrea@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Matthew,
>
> On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 14:13 +0100, Matthew Revell wrote:
>> Here's how I imagine it'd work. Let's say we're adding an in-line
>> commenting feature to diffs in merge proposals. When someone was
>> looking at a merge proposal page, we could pop-up a JS overlay that
>> invites them to take part in a phone/Skype call. They'd have the
>> option to enter their phone number/Skype ID/whatever, or select "Ask
>> me another time" or "Never ask me about this again".
>
> While I like the general idea, I think this particular behavior is too
> much "spamish". Active popups that show up while you're working asking
> you unrelated questions can be really, really annoying.

Yeah, I think that can be a problem and one that we'd, obviously, want to avoid.

Do you have any suggestions of what would lessen the "spam" aspect of this?

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