Release announcements

I haven't seen a release announcement yet that didn't turn into a messy wishlist. I'll put my +1 towards releasing with comments turned off.

Michelle

Same here. The comments are almost always one of 4 things:

1) "Yay, Drupal is cool, thanks!"

2) "Drupal sucks"

3) In appropriate feature requests that belong in the issue queue (where they can correctly be postponed to 7.x). ;)

4) Totally off-topic discussions

Therefore, I see no value in allowing comments on these posts.

One of the few common followups that is actually useful is the "digg this" comment.

We could just integrate that into the post, of course as was done this time.

I pulled some of the obviously nasty comments out already. We have in the past removed off topic comments in release announcements. The Beta 1 was locked.

marking fixed

Heine, if it's not relavant, remove them.

Maybe I'm bitter, but I just read through the beta3 announcement, and IMHO there's not a single comment of substance in that thread. Everything is one of the following:

A) Drupal is cool, nice!
B) I have an issue that I'm posting here instead of the issue queue.
C) Dear people doing (B), please use the issue queue instead.
D) When will the RC/final release be out (and should I start using D6 for my new project?)?

Well, ok, I guess there are 2 comments actually worth keeping:
http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0-beta3#comment-636478 (the video)
http://drupal.org/drupal-6.0-beta3#comment-636696 (the test site)

I wish we could have comments moderated on a per-node basis, since I'd say we should just flush 95% of the comments on that thread. In the incredibly rare case that someone actually has something useful to contribute to the thread about a beta release, we could publish it... ;) Instead of having to delete all the fluff and noise, we could just publish the rare bits of signal (if any).

My thoughts...

A) Not "useful" I suppose, but a nice pat on the back for the people who worked to get it out.
B) Bad because issues won't get attention as replies in a thread
C) An unfortunate side effect of B
D) Just annoying

Why not just set them to no comments to begin with? If someone has something important to add, they can contact an admin to add it.

Michelle

If you want the noise to go away, don't promote the story to the front page of Digg.

Anyways, we are in the content management business not the content quality business. ;-)