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

On Thu, 2 May 2013 17:57:16 +0200
Frédéric Delanoy <frederic.delanoy@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