On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:37:32AM -0600, Bobby D. Bryant wrote:
>
> On 2003.08.04 18:53, Charles Kerr wrote:
>
> > | #118930 | Ensure that changed articles' scores are
> >propagated up |
> > | Dave Hill | to their parents in the header pane so that
> >collapsed |
> > | | threads' scores are correct.
>
> IMO this was not a felicitous change. If a kook starts a thread I
> could formerly see that fact right away from the score of the
top-level
> post when the thread was collapsed, and take it into consideration
when
> deciding whether to open the thread. Now it looks like any other
> thread and I don't notice that I've stepped into dog pooh until I
click
> to expand it.
It's more important to make high scores easy to find than it is to
hide low scores. If a top article has a score -100 and its reply has
a score of 9999, you're more interested in the 9999 than the -100.
So it's intentional that we show a -100 article with a 9999 score
when -100's children are hidden.
Your point is valid, but the `collapsed thread scoring' is going to
stay. If you think of a way to reconcile the `kook starts a thread
issue with it, I'd consider your suggestion.