On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Rosanne DiMesio <dime...@earthlink.net>wrote:
> On Thu, 2 May 2013 17:57:16 +0200 > Frédéric Delanoy <frederic.dela...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > This won't prevent it, but I'm not sure hiding/disabling comments won't > do > > more harm than good. > > My opinion, based on close to 5 years experience as an active AppDB admin > and maintainer, is it will inconvenience a few people, but overall do far > more good than harm, for reasons that go beyond simple spam control. The > number of unmaintained apps with an active community of commenters is > small; in most unmaintained apps, questions posted just sit there > unanswered. Users seeking help would be much better off posting on the forum. > Of course, but we don't want people to ask the same questions over and over again on the forum. I thought the whole point of the appdb entry was to centralize information on running apps with wine (comments being common to all versions of the software tested)... > Since Andre's patch (thank you, Andre) merely disables comments for > unmaintained apps, any user who really thinks it's vital that the comments > appear in a particular entry can make that happen themselves simply by > volunteering to be a maintainer. If it's not important enough to someone to > put forth the trivial effort required to do that, then it's not important > to them, period. Maintaining/testing app entries may not be so trivial for everyone, and you can't expect everyone wanting to know how to run an app to become a maintainer... Maybe merely disabling *new* (vs all) comments for unmaintained apps would also do the job??? Frédéric
