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RE: The Threading Dilemma

by c-era (Curate)
on Jul 23, 2000 at 00:02 UTC ( [id://23919]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to The Threading Dilemma

Another option would be to have all the links by name converted to node number when a post is submited. If more then one node exsisted a list would come up that would allow the poster to choose the node they wanted. This would leave linking easy, but eliminate the duplicate name problem.

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RE:(2) Threading (resolve title conflicts at post time)
by Russ (Deacon) on Jul 23, 2000 at 07:09 UTC
    This makes the most sense to me, so far.

    I do, however, think the current node_id system works very cleanly most of the time. There are a few situations (like right after submitting a post) where it is more difficult to find the node id, but [id://123456] is the only internal linking method I use, anymore. It is clean, almost always easy (just look in the location bar, or mouse-over a link to get the lastnode_id) and precise.

    There are certain situations where the id:// method does actually convert to the full <nobr><a href=index.pl?node_id=12345></nobr>, so I imagine c-era's suggestion would be easiest to implement.

    I think I would encourage our fearless leader to address this issue, because the "add-my-name-to-the-title-just-to-make-it-unique" thing only serves to clutter, not clarify. kudra first posted her titling method to encourage us to make titles more informative. How much does it help you to read in Newest Nodes <nobr>"(Russ) Re: Threading"?</nobr>

    If the site could address the underlying problem causing us to do this, I think we will all be well-served.

    Russ
    Brainbench 'Most Valuable Professional' for Perl

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