On Jul 11, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Jaime Tiampo wrote:
I've used forums that do "thread" replies to the message they're directly
responding to and they end up being completely unwieldly. YOu have
responses at different levels of the page posted at different times and
you have to sort through them to find the recent ones you haven't read
yet.
Both that and the chronological list are both arguments against forums, though a chronological forum in conjunction with a mailist is useful as an archive for me.
I find it cumbersome and chaotic. I promotes people sliding off topic
and creating whole new topic threads within the same thread instead of
starting a whole new one. I've seen those interfaces and they never
promote posting on the boards.
Well, that is one of the fun aspects of a mailist that i kinda enjoy, though it is polite to change the subject line when one starts to go afield. But admittedly I am a chaos/big-picture sorta person, and that suits my work-style.
The last point is that this is all in support of Jon's company and
games and if a single member takes a position that alienates a chunk
of his customer base in his name, then then both Jon's ability to
make sales is hurt as well as making the community that actively
supports those game that much poorer.
Jon has just covered that.
Yes, yes he did.....