Re: Notification of a changed node

Indeed your concern is well founded. However the common practice is to put relevant markup when modifying/updating a node. Actually this rule is not always respected, but fortunately this happens rarely enough. Often just because people don't know about it and have not lurked enough. In these cases if someone realizes what's going on - and generally this is exactly what that happens, then he/she will warn the OP giving him relevant info about behavioural recommendations.

Said, this, having desired newsreader-like whatch/ignore facilities myself, from the responses I got I think to have understood that anything like what you're asking for would require major site modifications not that easy to be implemented anytime soon - but I would be happy to be proved wrong! Whatever, if you take the above picture into account, I think you'll realize there's not a compelling necessity for a facility like the one you're asking for.

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Re^2: Notification of a changed node by demerphq (Chancellor) on Feb 01, 2006 at 16:40 UTC
Actually i think the OP's request is different from the ones you mention. Messaging people who have replied to a node when the node has changd is a much different situation than allowing people to register themselves as watchers of a node or thread. The problem is that if we allow arbitrary people to register themselves as watchers we get into tricky issues of data storage and efficiency. However these problems are non-issues for the case of a messages direct children. So if we evr get around to tracking node updates, we might implement this request. --- $world=~s/war/peace/g	[reply]
Re^3: Notification of a changed node by eric256 (Parson) on Feb 01, 2006 at 18:53 UTC
Just a random thought. If we keep the last edited time in a field, then NewestNodes or RAT could have a section for nodes whos edit time is > than there last check time. Or in a similar but different way, each user could have a list of nodes that are parents of one of their nodes but whos update date is > than their own nodes update date. Hopefully that made sense. :) ___________ Eric Hodges	[reply]