[drupal-docs] deleting comments

[Djun Kim]

On 13 Jun 2005, at 10:03 PM, Anisa wrote:

>  I don't really know about all those other sites. ^.^  If the comments 
> contain useful information, it's usually because they're either trying 
> to fill in a gap in the handbook, or trying to answer a support 
> question that should've been posted in the forum. 

I think I disagree.  I think that this presupposes a 'centralized' 
model of content/knowledge.   Perhaps we would feel differently about 
these contributions if we changed the name from "comment" to "user 
contributed content".   Now that I'm re-reading this, I suppose that 
I'm not disagreeing at all - just OK with the idea of letting the 
filled-in gap remain filled in :)

The sites I have in mind are designed from the start to incorporate 
user contributed code, examples and insights.

That being said, user contributed comment doesn't seem appropriate for 
some parts of the documentation.  I think it's a question of design... 
so what do we need to do to make the content (team or user contributed) 
more useful?

>  It's not really a design question so much as well, it's like having a 
> textbook that's brand new but full of mistakes and omissions that 
> someone has fixed by writing them in by hand. 
>
>  In any case, they should unquestionably be integrated.  ^.^  If 
> useful.  And if useless, why are we keeping them there?
>
>  What particularly concerns me is code snippets being out of date...  
> If they can be versioned and kept, that would be the best thing, 
> really.
>
>  Anisa.
>