Re:CouchDB 3.0
by adrianmonk on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @08:17PM
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Alternatively, allow people to suggest corrections to a message, a lot like code review tools allow line-by-line feedback or questions on code.
In order to prevent people from abusing it as another way to get their reply seen by everyone, you could make it a private communication between the comment author and the user giving feedback. Or make it possible for other users to see it, but make it hidden by default.
That way, if the author wants to correct their comment, they can, but nobody else has to see the clutter.
Re:CouchDB 3.0
by johnisgood on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @07:57PM
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We could avoid all that and just have a way of correcting comments (with history, diff, and all that) which would show up upon clicking, say, "show edited version" or whatever. By default it would display the original version, but if someone wishes, one could display the edited version. This way the noise would be hidden. Perhaps to be able to add such corrections to comments, you would have to have at least n_1 karma, be registered for n_2 months, and so forth as a defense mechanism against trolls.
I am sleep deprived. I hope my idea comes across properly. It sounds good to me right now, might not sound good tomorrow. :P It is definitely complicated though and not sure it is worth the effort to implement and maintain.
That would actually be an interesting idea to pursue because I don't think it's even decidable and may require an AI/human to write back to understand. It depends on context that may not even be there. (Think of the absurdity of chain-comment-memes on Reddit, for example. The question may not even be answerable until lots of other people have replied. Now, you may not permit that as "grammar", but it speaks to the complexity of even defining grammar. Words are repurposed, etc. etc.)
Maybe... just maybe memes could be the key to AI /s
I've been thinking about this and, I think having a "grammar patrol" that had the ability to alter other people's comments for grammar on a site like HN or Reddit might be useful. Maybe. Of course there is potential for abuse. So you'd need a second group of people at the very least, who were given the ability to vote on the edits themselves as good or bad.
This second group would be the most difficult to establish and maintain at scale I think. Because whereas you could in theory allow anyone to volunteer as grammar patrol, you'd need to have a trusted group of people for group two. Otherwise, a group of trolls could sign up for both groups and make bad edits and then approve them.
At the end of the day it would probably require a lot more effort than what it's worth. Grammar mistakes are a bit of an eyesore but at the end of the day they usually aren't the end of the world.
Also, language is ever-evolving. So if in 50 years 80% of the population is consistently making a common set of grammar mistakes then that just means that the way to spell those words has changed.