Kalak's Journal: Sub-discussions

This brings up another bit of /. I should learn Perl so I can write: The ability to pre-mod yourself down. Sometimes I post when I know it's off topic and whining when I post some things like the AC post, but there's no place else to post it, since I want to keep it public, so I don't want to move it to e-mail.

A sub-discussion would open the thread up to anyone who wants to view it and the history of where it came from, but can still keep things from being modded off topic. I know Karma whoring is common. I don't usually whore (exception), but I like readers to know who I am and to know where I come from, even though I'm adding to the noise. With the current system, this is why a lot of discussions turn into noise, even though they are interesting to the users involved in them. They know they're now off topic, but where else to you put them. On mailing lists, some make an additional list as a place to discuss certain things, but they rarely work out, and the discussions never leave the "home" list. Moving a discussion to a journal entry would be the same. None of the kids would come and play.

A break out discussion should be an easy concept for SlashCode, and would let people like me ramble, while keeping the signal to noise ration down. Not being able to do this has kept me from contributing a few comments, like this one that aren't quite on topic, but add something minor to it, since I don't want to add to the noise. (Turn it down out there!)

p.s. The joke is from Scrambled Eggs Super.