Females in the community.

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 08:14:07AM -0700, Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On Thursday, March 24, 2016 14:01:04 Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> > On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 09:16:51 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> > > Note the lack of tree threading
> >
> > That's a feature. Tree threading is one of the worst things I've
> > ever seen and I wish it would die completely.
> >
> > Thankfully, we can turn it off here, but it still kinda ruins
> > things because it isolates replies, so the same thing tends to be
> > said over and over again.
> 
> LOL. I would _hate_ to lose tree-threading. I wouldn't read the
> newsgroup any other way. I don't know how anyone keeps tracks of
> conversations in a sane manner without it. But I'm certainly not
> against having alternatives in the forum so that users can choose
> which way works best for them. And folks using a newsgroup reader or
> an e-mail client to view the newsgroup have the same choice.
[...]

Whoa. This is the first time I've heard someone vote *against* tree
threading.  The entire reason I've avoided web-based email clients like
the plague is because I've yet to see one that handles tree threading
correctly, and tree threading is the only way (at least for me!) to keep
track of gigantic discussion threads that span thousands of posts.  As
for repetitiveness, it works pretty well if people actually use software
that does proper threading so that they can reply to individual
sub-threads rather than clump all replies in a single post, which
requires a DAG, but DAGs are impractical because past a certain point,
the graph starts looking like somebody's hair on a bad day and it's just
impossible to sort out which reply came from where. Trees are somewhat
limited in what can be represented, but large trees are much more
manageable than large DAGs.

On the other hand, perhaps this explains why people here start looking a
little lost when threads grow past 500 posts or so. Without proper tree
threading there's simply no way anyone can keep track of things past
that point.


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