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Moshi‭ wrote over 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure I've forgotten more of my reactions than I've ever placed, even though I'm more or less active. My old reactions wouldn't be marked as stale under this system. This probably won't be an uncommon scenario for other people either, so I'm not sure whether this is really helpful.

I'd rather the staleness be related to when the reaction itself was cast instead of use activity, since that seems more accurate to me. Also, it should probably be triggered on the post being edited, since 1. Recomputing every reaction regularly is not exactly efficient and 2. It feels weird for a reaction to be stale even though nothing has changed since the reaction was cast.

matthewsnyder‭ wrote over 1 year ago · edited over 1 year ago

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Yes, but you're around. If you said you'd use proposal X, and forgot about it 3 years ago, but now proposal X gets created, there's a good chance you'd see it and use it as you initially said. This is different from someone who has stopped using the site entirely, as many of their reactions become much less interesting.

Also, people could @mention you in comments to that post (eg. "hey Moshi you said this is dangerous but how come?") and there's a good chance you'd respond. (Dunno if just reacting is enough to become summonable, but this alone is enough reason that it should be).

I disagree on your 1. You could have a daily batch job, even weekly, and it's just an O(n) operation. Faster if you use indices on the DB.

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