Joel on Community Forums

Evil Grinn writes "In Building Communities with Software, Joel Spolsky starts with a lament about the lack of real-life community among programmers, but rapidly seques into an explanation of why he thinks his own forum system is better than Usenet or Slashdot. I really don't participate in Joel's forums enough to comment, but they are pretty basic. No registration system. No branching (you can only add comments to the end of a conversation, not reply to comments in the middle). No mod points. Quoting in replies is strongly discouraged. All of these are part of the design of the system, not missing features."

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K.I.S.S.

[You're All Wrong]

Don't use the non-word "seques" if you don't know what word you should be using. You're trying to show off, but showing off your ignorance. If you stick to bread-and-butter words, then everyone's happy.

The correct word is "segues". From the Italian, and ultimately from latin, where the root word did have a 'q' (same root as 'sequence' etc., and if you really want to trace it back, you can go all the way to pIE without too much of a leap of faith.)

YAW.