[AppDB] version: Only display comments section in case version has maintainers

[Frédéric Delanoy]

On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio at earthlink.net>wrote:

> On Thu, 2 May 2013 17:57:16 +0200
> Frédéric Delanoy <frederic.delanoy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > This won't prevent it, but I'm not sure hiding/disabling comments won't
> do
> > more harm than good.
>
> My opinion, based on close to 5 years experience as an active AppDB admin
> and maintainer, is it will inconvenience a few people, but overall do far
> more good than harm, for reasons that go beyond simple spam control. The
> number of unmaintained apps with an active community of commenters is
> small; in most unmaintained apps, questions posted just sit there
> unanswered.

Users seeking help would be much better off posting on the forum.
>

Of course, but we don't want people to ask the same questions over and over
again on the forum.
I thought the whole point of the appdb entry was to centralize information
on running apps with wine (comments being common to all versions of the
software tested)...


> Since Andre's patch (thank you, Andre) merely disables comments for
> unmaintained apps, any user who really thinks it's vital that the comments
> appear in a particular entry can make that happen themselves simply by
> volunteering to be a maintainer. If it's not important enough to someone to
> put forth the trivial effort required to do that, then it's not important
> to them, period.


Maintaining/testing app entries may not be so trivial for everyone, and you
can't expect everyone wanting to know how to run an app to become a
maintainer...
Maybe merely disabling *new* (vs all) comments for unmaintained apps would
also do the job???

Frédéric
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