[CLD] Policy question

[Marc Battyani]

"Peter Seibel" <peter at gigamonkeys.com> wrote:

> I just looked again to check out the new layout--it is a lot better
> than the original one. But looking at the root page raised one
> question that I think the directory maintainers should think about
> now--what's the policy for comments. I ask because currently the main
> page has a comment titled "Visual Layout Sucks" which, while I
> sympathize with the sentiment of as it applied to the old layout, is
> now not even applicable. You should state clearly somewhere what the
> policy of the site maintainers is regarding comments--do you intend
> to address them and then remove the comments? What about Notes?

OK, I removed the comment.

> Maybe my problem is more basic--I don't understand what the purpose
> of Notes and Comments are; how they fit into how folks are going to
> use the site. So at the moment they mostly just clutter up the pages.
> If it were me, I'd take them off until it was obvious that there was
> a need for them and then put them back in a way that clearly
> addresses that need.

IMO notes are annotations they are supposed to be facts like: There is a bug in some
function. Feature foo does not work on LW. Don't forget to call clean-all after using foo.
etc.

Comments are more subjective. like: This is great. I don't like the layout. Please add bar
in addition to foo. etc.

Notes and comments are useful because the directory is not a wiki. So this is the only way
for people to amend the Directory entries.

Marc