Re: Re: Interesting.
I think we've broken enough to keep 'em occupied for a while. There are a few things inherent in some of the stuff we've come up with that are going to force a design rethink:
1) Titles, misuse of. Implies a need to edit titles. What effect should withdrawing a First Post (and thus removing its title) have on the Topic title, if any? File under worms, can of.
2) Duplicates. Obviously there is some attempt in here to prevent topic duplication, but we've managed to show that it's got more holes in it than Rab C Nesbitt's vest. More worms in there. Easy to say "never", but never is a long time and hard/fast rules could be tricky to come up with.
3) Fun and games with titles / filtering. Well we're beyond worms and into snakes now. Personally I reckon the only "right" way to deal with this is to stop using the topic title as the URL and instead use a generated unique number, linking that to the vanilla, unfiltered topic title. I reckon though that the existing duplication detection (such as it is) is checking the generated URL and doing this would b0rk that. Also personally I have a profound objection to anything that can be manipulated itnto generating a null entry in data where one shouldn't be.
4) Zombies. More worms. I'm fairly sure that there's something funky in there we haven't found yet.........
5) This very place. We have a "stealth topic" in which we can chat, but casual passers-by cannot see. Nice trick. So nice in fact that "invite only" topics fall onto the to do list as a result.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
