Journal Chacham's Journal: TBD: The retroactive JE 2
One thing i don't like about JE's, is that comments are disabled after a bit of time. That makes it difficult to comment on a topic found much later, that you want to come back to, or to contact a user who no longer posts. OTOH, the author can edit old JEs's, which i usually use to correct spelling mistakes when i go back to a JE some time later. The problem with that though, is the ability to post something marked with an old date, but actually written much later. Without revisions or the like, the date on JEs are not reliable. Yet again, this could be a lot of fun.
Perhaps a test is in order. I will^H^H^H^Hhave posted an empty JE, which can be commented upon. If used, i hope to write a JE afterward. Perhaps a few days later. I would include "quoted" comments and the like (assuming i don't deem them inappropriate). Please note, this is for the following JE. Comments on this JE (that are not on topic) will be ignored.
Thread Necromancy (Score:2)
I think I understand why comments on journal entries become impossible after a while. On a role-playing forum I frequented some years ago, the practice of posting new answers to old threads was called 'thread necromancy' and was generally considered rude. I see the usefulness of such a rule on the main news stories. The best comments are useful years after the fact, but the half-life of a normal forum post is usually pretty short.
I am not sure that journals should have the same rules applied to them. Journa
Re: (Score:1)
Interesting thoughts. Perlmonks usually despises it, but just today, i woke up [perlmonks.org] an old poll [perlmonks.org]. I also responded to a years-old forum post elsewhere, because it showed up (for me) as the first post on Google.
Anyway, fodder goes in the other JE [slashdot.org], which is the one i intend to rewrite.