@Mellow Hudson Mike posted:How would a warning stop this?
In the spirit of so much innovation going on with data analysis currently, I could see a very nice Artificial Intelligence (AI) project coming our of your suggestion, i.e. have a computer analyze the thread to date, decide where it's headed, and not allow any wandering by preventing a follow-on post from being made unless it makes sense.
Now, how do we train it to know accurately and precisely what "Does it make sense?" means?
(I don't think that our staid old hobby is quite ready for this, but who knows?)
Mike
You're speaking my language! I masquerade as a Data Integration Specialist of sorts as part of my salary continuation program and deal with things like that all the time. It is amazing both how "smart" and how "dumb" computers can be, and what some clients assume computers can and can't do!
Getting back on topic, I can't get over how much of a stir my seemingly innocuous suggestion to simply highlight an idle topic has been, especially since status-quo around here is that extremely old threads are permanently locked. Sometimes there isn't a perfect solution, but don't let that get in the way of something even a little bit better.
