Re: [Pan-users] ANN: Pan 0.14.0.94

[Charles Kerr]

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:37:32AM -0600, Bobby D. Bryant wrote:
> 
> On 2003.08.04 18:53, Charles Kerr wrote:
> 
> >  | #118930          | Ensure that changed articles' scores are
> >propagated up  |
> >  | Dave Hill        | to their parents in the header pane so that
> >collapsed   |
> >  |                  | threads' scores are correct.
> 
> IMO this was not a felicitous change.  If a kook starts a thread I 
> could formerly see that fact right away from the score of the top-level 
> post when the thread was collapsed, and take it into consideration when 
> deciding whether to open the thread.  Now it looks like any other 
> thread and I don't notice that I've stepped into dog pooh until I click 
> to expand it.

It's more important to make high scores easy to find than it is to hide
low scores.  If a top article has a score -100 and its reply has a score
of 9999, you're more interested in the 9999 than the -100.  So it's
intentional that we show a -100 article with a 9999 score when -100's
children are hidden.

Your point is valid, but the `collapsed thread scoring' is going to
stay.  If you think of a way to reconcile the `kook starts a thread issue
with it, I'd consider your suggestion.

Maybe the score could be in parenthesis, that would be easy to code.

And, you could always plonk the kook? :)

-- 
cheers,
Charles