Re: Proposal: Nuke negative comments

On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 5:28 PM Larry Garfield <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I'm fine with some slightly stricter threshold for purging (-5, or -1 but also at least X months old, or whatever).  No strong preference here.

    This is another good idea of which I didn't think.  I've removed
thousands of notes that were using coding styles that had deprecated
functions and other such detrimental qualities over the years, but
making a point to check - at least after EOLs and major releases - is
probably a really good idea, Larry.

> .... (I never use Windows, so I have no idea if it's valuable or misleading.)

    Hear, hear.  Over a hundred devices (servers included) in our
house, and - aside from the as/when needed spin-up of a Windows VM -
not a single Microsoft product.  Nothing against it, like I used to be
in the nineties and early aughts, but this was one of my feelings
toward what Chris pointed out, specifically, about a heavily-downvoted
Windows-based function notes.  Was it because there were factual,
programmatic design errors, or just pseudo-/cyber-cultural bias?

> To Dan's point, I am happy to discuss better options than this sledgehammer.  Mainly I'm just trying to improve the signal to noise ratio to make the janitorial work easier and more productive.  But I don't want a mythical future solution to block a simple and easy one now, either.  (Having a stricter one-time purge rule could still leave us sufficient data to test more nuanced tools in the future.)

    We stand in agreement here.  Considering the consistent amount of
posts and voting on the user notes, it's likely to be substantial
enough to outweigh the current state of disrepair it's in now.

    Regardless of opinions and turnout, though, I have to thank you,
Larry, for bringing up the point.  Because fully-manual intervention
just isn't a reasonable approach anymore, and it's becoming a
hinderance to the quality of the documentation as a whole.