in reply to Proposal: Truncating trailing '(update)' from node-titles in replies

But this becomes nonsensical when replies are also named (updated) because it's inherited.

Actually, I use the "(updated)" tag in the title slightly differently: Since I only add it for updates that I consider "significant" to the OP, I think it's useful to see for myself (and hopefully for others) whether someone is replying to my original node or my updated node. So in that sense it would actually be a disadvantage to have the tag removed, since I'd think the responder may not have seen my significant update, so I'd have to /msg them or something. What does happen occasionally is that when I then reply to a reply, I forget to remove the "(updated)" tag from my new node's title. So I'd probably agree with jdporter that titles are just unreliable.

Just spitballing, and this is probably not a good idea, but a theoretical solution to this would be to do s{ \(updated \K (?:\^(\d+))? (?= \) \s* $ ) }{ "^".(($1//0) + 1) }xei to the titles ("(updated)" → "(updated^1)" → "(updated^2)" ...). With that, to mark my node as updated, I can remove the ^\d+ part.

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Re^2: Proposal: Truncating trailing '(update)' from node-titles in replies
by LanX (Saint) on Mar 13, 2021 at 12:32 UTC
    > whether someone is replying to my original node or my updated node.

    But you know there are timestamps? ;)

    Cheers Rolf
    (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
    Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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      But you know there are timestamps? ;)

      That would require me to either record the timestamps of my updates manually, or remember when exactly I've made every update, and at least the latter most likely isn't happening ;-)

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        But you understand my problem?

        If I reply to an updated post of yours and need to update myself, how would I flag that in the title? :)

        Cheers Rolf
        (addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
        Wikisyntax for the Monastery

        PS: FWIW, I'm thinking of expanding my wiki-mechanism to automatically truncate (updates) from titles.

        I might also include a "last edit"-comment in the text, though I'm not sure if JS can provide a reliable timestamp.

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