h a l f b a k e r yI think this would be a great thing to not do.
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This idea, applicable primarily to large ideas with
voluminous
and occasionally lengthy annotations, and perhaps not only
to
the Halfbakery, is to use something akin to a citation based
system to be able to comment on text directly where it
occurs(as opposed to re-quoting it 5 scroll pages
later).
This shouldn't eliminate the more linear flow of
consciousness
display of text, but improve the readability of comment
flow.
comment threading
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[xaviergisz, Dec 18 2013]
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This would tend to strongly bias the HB in
such a way that it would be significantly less
accesible and comprehensible to proles, but
much more comfortable for a minority of
pedantic, clasically trained academics. |
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I was thinking this would be like traffic citations? |
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Ahem "Citation: 20/12/2013. 9:32 AM The defendant did willfully, and with malice aforethought, post a long idea without paragraph breaks". |
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I'm guessing Interpol has better things to do than chase these up. |
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This was actually much more the vision of how the internet would work of early pre-internet visionaries such as Vannevar Bush than how the internet actually turned out. |
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If I choose to place an annotation right at the very
beginning of the post- an annotation/citation which
is unnecessarily long, rambling and full of what I
consider to be witty digressions - would that not
break up the original idea to the point of
incomprehensibility? |
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