Synchronized threads

[lukatmyshu]

So while I was working with some java threads I headed over to ATOT and saw the word association game thread. It always irritated me how one person would post a question, then immediately 10 people would post a reply to that first post (not realizing that there had been intermittent posts already). So how about if you we implement the synchronized notion on these message boards? In certain threads (this is only useful in those threads that are fueled by the previous post) when you hit reply Fusetalk could lock the reply option until the next person posts (or for 1 minute if the person forgets to close his window or something) ... that way you wouldn't have this issue. I realize this is a lot of work for a relatively minor problem ... but i thought I'd ask anyways. cheers.
Vijay

 

[Argo]

How do you determine who the next person is? 🙂

 

[Codewiz]

Originally posted by: lukatmyshu
So while I was working with some java threads I headed over to ATOT and saw the word association game thread. It always irritated me how one person would post a question, then immediately 10 people would post a reply to that first post (not realizing that there had been intermittent posts already). So how about if you we implement the synchronized notion on these message boards? In certain threads (this is only useful in those threads that are fueled by the previous post) when you hit reply Fusetalk could lock the reply option until the next person posts (or for 1 minute if the person forgets to close his window or something) ... that way you wouldn't have this issue. I realize this is a lot of work for a relatively minor problem ... but i thought I'd ask anyways. cheers.
Vijay

So every poster gets to decide if that option should be turned on? There would be so much abuse from it that it would make posting impossible.

Not to mention that it would be like hundreds of people calling the same phone line that is busy. People would hit refresh as fast as the could to be the one that posts. This would kill the server.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Erm.. yeah, that's a pretty unreasonable "solution," IMO. Most forms of online communication have these delays and "blind spots," it's just kinda a fact of life, ya know.

 

[BG4533]

Also, what if one person leaves the computer with the reply box open and holds up everyone else as well.