By Marc Bijl on
Please, stop polluting topics and issues by adding comments like...
- subscribing
- subscribe
- subscribed
...or even worse (in a vain attempt to be original):
- With the risk of being repetitive... subscribing.
- Definitely subscribing (the site should have an option to do that without spamming)
- Guess what? I'm also subscribing :p
- me too :)
What's the added value of these comments?
Absolutely nothing. On the contrary: it pollutes the forum.
If you want to bookmark a post, so that you can follow progression,
use browser bookmarks, online bookmarks, post-it notes, whatever. I don't care...
So that the real contributors can focus on what's important.
Comments
Actually what you are
Actually what you are commenting on is a common and allowed practice here on Drupal.org as it allows one to track additional comments on a subject using 'My Recent Posts'. So there is actually a value to them, and if you closely you will see real contributors "subscribing" to posts.
About tracking additional comments
nevets says:
"Actually what you are commenting on is a common and allowed practice here on Drupal.org as it allows one to track additional comments"
I can understand this reason. But what's the value of tracking "additional comments" that just say "subscribed"?
Imagine all Drupalers interested in a certain issue/topic start subscribing this way...
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Just like nevets says. But
Just like nevets says.
But I'll add that you could post an issue to the webmasters of the drupal.org website suggesting a new way or a complement way to follow posts in a less "polluting" manner.
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Thanks for your suggestion
Just created:
- http://drupal.org/node/371689 ;)
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Looking for solutions....aka
Looking for solutions....aka subscribing.
All of this has been
All of this has been discussed in detail by the primary maintainers of the project module. Please review the development archives and the issue queues of all the project modules.
Sure...
Everything has been said before.
But the Drupal forum is getting so huge,
that sometimes it's hard to find something...
Even more when English is not your native language.
Thanks for the pointer, BTW ;)
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Subscribing ;)
I agree with what you're saying, but I think this also has another function than showing new posts in a convenient place (the tracker): it shows interest in an issue. When there are tons of subscribe messages, that shows the people doing the work that there is an interest, and also provides a bit of a prioritization.
This could of course be done with other means as well, but those don't seem to exist - or at least haven't been activated on drupal.org.
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I agree with you :-)
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Drupal.org works this way
I see that nobody said this is the only way to receive a notification about an issue report being updated. When you click on subscribe, you have just two options (leaving out None that is used to remove the subscriptions to that issue queue): All issues, and Own issues; Own issues select the issues opened by a person, or the ones for which a person has left a comment.
A person that didn't create a report must then leave a comment, to receive a notification about that particular report he wants to be updated on.
It would surely be better to have a different way to subscribe, as the actual system would report to a subscriber when other people subscribe to the same issue report (I don't think that would be useful).
Until that is not done, the subscribers could at least limit themselves to just write Subscribing when subscribing.
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The easiest way would be if
The easiest way would be if there is a subscribe option per issue.
As someone mentioned, the subscription "comments" do fill a purpose as it shows the maintainers that there is an interest in the work they are doing. This could easily be solved by simply have a counter showing how many have subscribed to that particular issue/node/whatever.
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I give my support and
I give my support and approval of this thread. I would like to receive notification that this thread has been updated in the form of an entry to my Recent Posts list, thus my donation of support, and as previously mentioned, approval.
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groups.drupal.org's solution
See the "Subscriptions" button on every groups.drupal.org's thread. I think that is what is missing here on the rest of drupal.org.
Battle against the inconsiderate
It's a losing battle, I'm afraid. As others mentioned, drupal.org currently lacks an unobtrusive subscribe method. So, rather than sucking it up and going through the effort of checking their browser bookmarks for new activity, people choose the highly annoying "subscribe" method which forces everyone who has a legitimate comment on the thread to go and look to see what's new only to see "subscribe".
Thankfully this looks to be addressed by the redesign so we won't have to live with the "subscribers" much longer.
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Yep, I agree. Until
Yep, I agree.
Until Drupal.org ads an actual subscribe function, the "subscribing" will continue.
subscribing :-)
subscribing :-)
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