<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">In a mailing list format, everyone is free to start a new thread.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Would a forum have a privilege system that stops newbies from starting threads? I've seen no one proposing that.</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="">Whether you invented the language or started learning it yesterday, if you have a new idea, it comes into everyone's inbox in exactly the same way. No one's user name has extra flares or trophies or whatever reminding you of their status.</div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Imho that's just wrong, and this message somewhat proves my point:</div><div>There are several users with a "@apple.com" trophy, and I guess most people who spend a significant amount of time on swift-evolution also have developed a preference not only for topics, but also for authors (saving matching posts from being ignored).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>The ability to "like" posts would be a remarkable help for newbies to gather attention for their ideas — not because of the status of the author, but because of the quality of their contribution.</div></body></html>