[wplug-board] A Few Notes

[Evan DiBiase]

On Tuesday, November 27, 2001, at 12:23 PM, Robert Dale wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Evan DiBiase wrote:
>
>> Namely, for items that don't require active affirmation, you still need
>> to click "Wait" at some point during their sit in the pending items
>> queue if you want to register the fact that you wouldn't mind if the
>> proposal passed. This, I think, is the best way to deal with the 
>> bylaws,
>> which state that everyone has to see a proposal for it to pass without
>> assuming that just because you loaded up the entire list of proposals
>> for three seconds that you've "seen" my latest three-page rant about
>> ordering tacos at install-fests.
>
> Put a fourth, default option in there, such as "not read".  Otherwise,
> the default option of "wait" is confusing because ones that have
> been actually set to wait and have not can't distinguinshed.

I like this idea -- less confusing, more functional. Should "Wait" be 
changed to something like "Mark as Read"? That would seem to eliminate 
the problem altogether.

-Evan