Can we please kill the hyphenator already?

[Wyatt]

On Tuesday, 1 October 2013 at 20:52:22 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>
> Heh, yea. But OTOH, it can be a good way for community members 
> to easily
> point out any errors/omissions/gotchas in the docs.

I wish I were as optimistic, but unless the comment system ends 
up sticking its stuff in some section of the NG it's just going 
to become a burden (and even then I think it'd be suboptimal).  
Laundry list of misgivings:
- Every doc page will need moderated against spammers and 
unsavory folk (and they're getting really clever these days).
- It fragments the quality help people get from e.g. D.learn, 
instead placing questions in out-of-the way places where they'll 
languish for months or years (cf. http://xkcd.com/979/).
- It makes it harder to notice trends in the problems people have 
that hint at language flaws we can address (like TypeTuple).
- The questions that do get answered have a decent chance of 
being answered by someone with an incomplete understanding of the 
problem space, which will accrete a bunch of non-functioning 
half-solutions.
- The responses become stale over time as the docs change, so you 
end up with comments that don't mesh with reality fairly easily 
(we're not stable by a long shot, even semantically).

There's the argument that there might be some "really good" 
comments made, but to me that situation is more of a _bug_ 
reflecting a deficiency in our docs (a good example: 
http://www.php.net/manual/en/security.database.sql-injection.php).

-Wyatt

PS: And if it wasn't clear, the idea of using Disqus or some 
other external thing should be right out.