A plea for more thoughtful comments

Posted May 30, 2024 0:42 UTC (Thu) by halla (subscriber, #14185)
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Another thing might be having the option to have a short bio, clickable from username. Many people here go by what I guess are aliases, which is fine, but I I'd be more inclined to allow leeway to "XXX, worked on YYY since ZZZ' compared to "AAA -- can't link to anything." And the aliases might be well-known, but probably only in a small community.

There's a difference between "GarlicStew who comments a lot" and "GarlicStew who worked on X and Y who comments a lot", when it comes to credibility.

As for me, "I'm Halla, I've worked on Krita since 2003, been the maintainer since 2004, and before that, in the early nineties, I created Dante, a usenet/mail client for waffle UUCP. I also did Kura, a linguist's tool that was later taken over by the Ludwig Maximilian University. Blog: https://valdyas.org/fading/, Fedi: https://fosstodon.org/@halla"

A plea for more thoughtful comments

Posted May 30, 2024 9:37 UTC (Thu) by zdzichu (guest, #17118) [Link] (2 responses)

Personal information

Here is the information you provide about yourself. Your name and info will eventually be available to other users;

Guess where I've found the above… It is already prepared on LWN, but not exposed anywhere. Maybe should be visible in popup when on-mouseing-over someone's nickname?

A plea for more thoughtful comments

Posted May 30, 2024 17:23 UTC (Thu) by wtarreau (subscriber, #51152) [Link] (1 responses)

Then maybe also have an option to automatically hide comments from people having not filled these info. That's a matter of mutual respect: before speaking I introduce myself. If there's no way to know who I am you might not be interested in what I have to say anyway since you don't even know if I'm legitimate regarding this.

A plea for more thoughtful comments

Posted May 30, 2024 18:59 UTC (Thu) by halla (subscriber, #14185) [Link]

I would love that...