> > Am I really expected to add a "me too" response every time I agree with > what > someone else took the time to write... making it harder for people with > limited > time to follow? This seems especially cruel to those that don't speak > English > natively, and those that rely on translation services. >
I can't help but feel we should be using better tooling for discussions. There are various cases where I would like to +1 but I know this is frowned upon when dealing with email threads. I feel much more committed to Debian than to hackernews, although I participate much more in discussions there than in Debian ones. If we remove the fact that these tools are proprietary/not-accessible, event the worst social networks are better at doing forum type discussions than email threads. The ability to +1 without having to add something substantial to the discussion, the ease to see all the subthreads (sub discussions) without having to dig into the mail box trying to figure it out which one is about what, and the centralization of the discussion in a "tree like" structure are things that I miss a lot here. Here's me hoping that somebody has the time to propose some solution for this problem that doesn't fall into N subthreads that most of the people don't even bother trying to find or give up participating because they can't just "+1". Regards, -- Samuel Henrique <samueloph>
