One of the GreatChallengesToWikis
When ThreadMode degenerates into a blob...
Symptoms:
- Three plus levels of indentations
- Page gets longer and longer and longer...
- Creation of Part2 and Continued pages
Consequences:
- Difficult to understand pages
- Tends to inhibit contribution for some people
Examples: Too many...
Treatments:
- Wiki:ThreadModeConsideredHarmful
- ReplaceQuestionWithAnswer
- ColdBlanket
- Recan the worms (cf. ForestFire)
- DebateGraph
References: