Proposal: Nuke negative comments
| From: | Larry Garfield | Date: | Tue, 10 May 2022 18:21:52 +0000 |
| Subject: | Proposal: Nuke negative comments | ||
| Groups: | php.doc | ||
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Hello, Docsians.
There are currently tens of thousands of comments in the docs. Most are of dubious value, but
occasionally some are useful to fold into the doc page before deleting. I and others do so
periodically, but it's all ad hoc and not especially efficient. One of the issues is that
determining if a comment is of any use is a subjective human task.
However, doc comments do have up/down votes on them. While they are also of dubious value, I think
it's a reasonable assumption to make that any comments that have negative totals are worthless
and we can safely get rid of them without human intervention. That would remove many thousands of
comments from the docs, and give us a better sense of what pages have the highest number of
potentially-useful comments worth trying to manually review, merge, prune, etc.
This could be done manually through the admin UI, but as I said, "many thousands." Would
someone with server access be able to just nuke any negative-score comments from orbit?
Anyone object, before we track down someone with the nuclear codes?
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Larry Garfield
larry@garfieldtech.com