What about simply giving meta discussions (including features) a place of their own ?
That way if there is an interesting one (and it does happen, even if rarely) it has a spot and doesn't get killed because it takes up valuable space on the 'new' page.
I've been thinking about that for a while, if only because if there was an official place for meta-discussion, I could make people stop cluttering the real threads with it. On the other hand, maybe this feature would make the site more attractive to the kind of people who like meta-discussion, when I want it to be less attractive to them.
Well, since some of it is useful, give that it's own spot and leave the flag and kill options in place to control the meta discussion should it get out of hand.
Just like in wikipedia there is the 'talk' page, it's out of band but it is not out of control.
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What about simply giving meta discussions (including features) a place of their own ?
That way if there is an interesting one (and it does happen, even if rarely) it has a spot and doesn't get killed because it takes up valuable space on the 'new' page.
I've been thinking about that for a while, if only because if there was an official place for meta-discussion, I could make people stop cluttering the real threads with it. On the other hand, maybe this feature would make the site more attractive to the kind of people who like meta-discussion, when I want it to be less attractive to them.
Well, since some of it is useful, give that it's own spot and leave the flag and kill options in place to control the meta discussion should it get out of hand.
Just like in wikipedia there is the 'talk' page, it's out of band but it is not out of control.
That seems to be a good middle ground.