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== Threading ==
Moving this discussion from ID talk page.  Do you remember if there was already a discussion in the forum.  If so I think I missed it and i don't want to rehash old news.  [[User:Chris Day|Chris Day]] 17:04, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
:Yes, there was one several months ago, in which I *thought* some sort of consensus was arrived at. Milton, I believe, was writing the text for this blue Etiquette box that we see at the top of the screen, and we were discussing what exactly to put into it. I thought that it was *you* who was doing the actual writing of the template and also, maybe, participating in the discussion.  But, I guess, you were just putting in what Milton asked you to. Having gone through that one discussion, this is why I get annoyed, sometimes, when people seem to arbitrarily decide not to play by the rules/guidelines/suggestions/whatever that were talked about. (I think that as a result of the discussion, someone *also* went in the CZ:HowToDo things and rewrote it to say that the use of indents in threading *was* the way to do it, not merely a "suggestion".) [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 17:24, 28 May 2009 (UTC)"
::May I point out, Hayford, that threading refers specifically to the system which you are deprecating? :-p
::Also, re. "people seem to arbitrarily decide not to play by the rules" - I've never actually come across such rules, and until you mentioned them the other day I had no idea that discussions were supposed to be linear.
::Anyhow, I am very much in favour of a new discussion or a vote. I believe the form software allows them to be set up very easily.
::[[User:Caesar Schinas|Caesar Schinas]] 17:30, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
:::I'm all for a new discussion, just as long as it gives a definitive, permanent answer. I don't care one way or another, except I do have my own personal opinion, of course. Lemme look for where what I call "the rules" spell it out -- I know it's there somewhere. (I myself didn't just arbitrarily decide one day that we were going to use colons for indents come hell or high water!) [[User:Hayford Peirce|Hayford Peirce]] 17:38, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

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