On Mi, 2008-03-26 at 21:48 +0000, Bruce Cowan wrote: > Since the Hardy beta, I have noticed a lot of useless noise on malone. > People treat it as if it was a forum. > > For instance, some add "me too" comments. Others start insulting the > developers saying "I'll leave if you don't fix this". Yet more ask > questions in bugs, and others answer them. > > This makes it rather difficult to actually see what needs to be done to > fix the bug. > > I propose some kind of commenting guidelines that should be displayed > underneath the "Add a comment/attachment" dropdown. > -- > Bruce Cowan <bcowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Maybe it could be useful to give the project's bug-contact a possibility to mark some comments as "useless" (or even spam), which would sort of hide them (I'm thinking of youtube here, maybe a line saying "hidden comment by Some Name, click to <here> show"). This would not stop those comments from being made in the first place but once they are marked, it may discourage them from me-too-ing. However, I'm not sure if that wouldn't stop shy people from making comments which do contain useful information. Kjell
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