Often times I find myself stumbling upon an interesting node that's several months (or more) old. I'd like to offer my reply to these nodes, because they're interesting, but fear that there's no point doing so if noone will be reading these old nodes.

Perhaps Perl Monks could have a "Revisited Nodes" section, which will list nodes which are X months old but have recently had a reply to them. This way, rather than having to start a new root node on a topic that was already discussed, which loses all the interesting comments that were in the original thread, we could pick up where we left off.

What do you think?

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Re: Revisted Nodes
by arturo (Vicar) on Mar 21, 2001 at 20:23 UTC

    Well, yes, ++ on going back to read old nodes. However, any new reply to an old node will pop up in the Newest Nodes list under "New Notes". Anybody sufficiently interested to read the reply will presumably go on to the rest of the thread.

    Philosophy can be made out of anything. Or less -- Jerry A. Fodor

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Re (tilly) 1: Revisted Nodes
by tilly (Archbishop) on Mar 22, 2001 at 06:34 UTC
    If you think you have something truly interesting to say then start a new discussion and link back to the old. This is how most people become aware of past discussions.

    If you want to say something, feel free to respond to the old post. People who follow Newest Nodes or who use my Perlmonks Navigator will see the response no matter how old the post you are responding to.

    BTW if you don't use one of those two you will miss a lot of interesting conversations...

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Re: Revisted Nodes
by arhuman (Vicar) on Mar 21, 2001 at 20:25 UTC
    Continue to reply to old nodes, you will at least get the attention of the person you're replying to (via the message in the CB)
    and often the attention of people looking for new nodes and who will read your reply and the whole thread.

    But talking about your solution, I wouls suggest something else :
    A better solution would be (IMHO) to have the ability to subscribe to a thread,
    and get a message each time something is posted on this thread.
    (This idea isn't mine and I don't recall who talk about it first)

    It has the advantage that you don't have to dig for new info on topics which interest you,
    instead you just wait to receive messages when a topic you subscribed to is being posted.

    "Trying to be a SMART lamer" (thanx to Merlyn ;-)
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