comments on the wiki

Dick Davies rasputnik at hellooperator.net
Thu Jul 7 14:15:49 UTC 2005


* Jane Silber <jane.silber at canonical.com> [0744 14:44]:
> 
> >>What do you all think about making the comment field mandatory?


> >I think it's good practice, but making it compulsory won't make the enforced
> >comments make sense.

> Also true.  And people who wanted to avoid it could write nonsense in
> the comment field. But most people won't.

True enough. My gut reaction with this kind of issue is to account for 
mankinds inherent laziness, and put as few obstacles in the way of those wanting
to contribute as possible.

If you're going to bother registering to make a change in the first place I
suppose it's not much more hassle to add a 'fixed typos' comment....

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