Timeline for How to deal with discussion and/or collaboration
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| Nov 26, 2012 at 11:55 | comment | added | Fortiter | Clearly, while it is "possible" for the record of a chat to be retained as an essential component of a collaboratively developed answer there are conditions to be met to ensure that happens. There are procedures to be learned and protocols to be followed before we can be assured that "chat transcripts are permanent, and could be included as a reference". | |
| Nov 26, 2012 at 11:50 | comment | added | user104 | The room I referred to was deleted per the explanation at chat.stackexchange.com/faq#retention (and truly that particular chat transcript wasn't worth retaining). The sort of thing you're referring to would likely be more active and I'd hope the substance of the discussion would be updated back to the relevant question (at intervals to show process if the participants could be so disciplined). | |
| Nov 16, 2012 at 11:01 | comment | added | ACProctor | Thanks Fortiter. You've summarised my points much better than I did. As you point out, the essential issue is that "method" is often more important than the final answer in this class of question. | |
| Nov 16, 2012 at 6:25 | comment | added | Fortiter | As noted above, the only example we have is not operating as suggested. | |
| Nov 16, 2012 at 2:14 | comment | added | jmort253 | Hi Fortiter, as ColeValley suggests, chat transcripts are permanent, and could be included as a reference link in the answer, which would solve #5. I have seen chat occasionally used in this manner, and I think it could work here too. As an aside, regarding #1 and #2, if a comment thread gets too long, the SE system already auto-posts a suggestion in the comments to take the conversation to chat. Hope this helps! | |
| Nov 16, 2012 at 2:05 | history | answered | Fortiter | CC BY-SA 3.0 |