in reply to RFC: PerlMonks "What's New" Wiki

What's the difference between this and providing a feature that allows only certain users (if any) to reply to a node? I think that the latter would be simpler to code up and would have the benefit of being useful in other situations.
My criteria for good software:
  1. Does it work?
  2. Can someone else come in, make a change, and be reasonably certain no bugs were introduced?

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Re^2: RFC: PerlMonks "What's New" Wiki
by jdporter (Paladin) on Apr 24, 2006 at 16:35 UTC

    Well, that would work... but it has some disadvantages:

    1. It means a new node for every announcement, forever.
    2. It would (maybe) make the RSS feed harder to implement — or at least more costly, DB-wise, having to spider the thread.
    3. New items would appear at the bottom of the page, at least for those users who have their settings that way.
    4. It would be hard and/or messy to roll off older announcements as they become stale. Wiki nodes make this trivial.

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Re^2: RFC: PerlMonks "What's New" Wiki
by GrandFather (Saint) on Apr 24, 2006 at 22:57 UTC

    We already have various Wiki nodes that are used by site maintainers to record and discuss changes and ideas. Without having looked at how present Wikis are provided, I'd guess jdporter's idea would be pretty light weight to implement.

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