The anti-pattern is not the Discussion, also known as ThreadMode. It's more that the page is never converted from the discussion. Wikipedia pushes the discussion to separate pages but it's still important to have the Discussion. This is a Pattern, not Anti-Pattern.

Posted by Jason Yip at Feb 18, 2007 02:14


CommunityWiki is trying an experiment currently called PageMaintainer. http://www.communitywiki.org/en/PageMaintainer <sup></sup>

Posted by MarkDilley at Feb 22, 2007 19:22


I've renamed this page, because ThreadMode itself is a useful adoption pattern: it's only when ThreadMode is allowed to run wild that it becomes an AntiPattern. I got the name ThreadMess off Meatball Wiki, it seems to fit.

Posted by Charles Miller at Apr 01, 2007 23:43