Should Fluther use live updates like Google Wave?

They actually considered this idea, but they decided against it. I agree with their decision.

Sometimes you don’t want to send in a response until you are sure. If you start to type something inappropriate or embarrassing, you can delete it before hitting “answer”

No way. Flame wars are bad enough as is—I can’t imagine how much worse they’d get if you could say something without committing to it.

I don’t think this would be beneficial. People might hold back from answering because they might not want others to see what they are crafting, in case they change their mind. Some people type out an angry answer before changing it as a way of venting, if they disagree with someone. If you could see their angry, venting response before they changed it, that wouldn’t be much fun at all.

I don’t want that.
I go through a lot of revisions when I’m typing a response. I don’t want people to see the drafts and the process I go through when I’m figuring out how to appropriately display my thoughts.
And, in the reverse, I don’t want to see what people think until they feel it’s a finished product. Otherwise I may get a skewed idea of it.

Perhaps it could be a feature that could be turned on and off?

You’re WRONG—I’m sorry—you make a valid point, but I think the community has spoken.

Sometimes efficiency isn’t the answer. Perhaps try to meditate while I am crafting a response?

I would like the option. Maybe for short answers like this.

Even the fact that I can see which people are typing responses blew my mind when I joined. It was like they took JavaScript and added freaking magic to it.

Imagine the hit to the servers if it sent out every character typed. Right now it polls the sever about every five seconds.

And If every thing I typed was displayed before I committed to posting it I would delete my account so fast. It is just a horrible idea.

Holy fuck-shit HELL NO!!!

Not only is @johnpowell correct that it would rape the server in the ear, there are also those of us who tend to do quite a bit of editing before finally hitting the button, and sometimes out of self-censorship. Trust me, if some of the answers I have declined to post ever saw the light of day, not only would my Fluther account be missing, but I think that someone would track me down and have me hauled to a secure psychiatric facility.

I think jerv might be against the idea too.

No- not a good idea. Imagine if everything you said was recorded or shared. Or worse that your brain thought was recorded because you train yourself to have less filters to the written page I think- at least that’s what I’ve been trying to train myself to do for years. Ugh.

I’ve asked my three for today, but wouldn’t it be interesting to ask a question about, and have a subsequent thread along the lines of: What if fluther had this “live” feature and you couldn’t edit: what would some of your (angry, hateful, psycho) posts really look like?

@zenele Typo-laden threats to kill people with various acts of sodomy with items including but not limited to power tools, whales, and unlubricated buses.

@jerv Dont forget the retractable batons!

@jerv You gotta be fucking kidding me, asshole? What are you on drugs you snivelling little twit? I’ll just take my little leatherman hacksaw and cut your head off and shove it up your arse, you satan’s snothead you.

Just kidding.

@Arp And the Atlantic Salmon…

@zenele That begs the question: is it possible to shove someone’s head so far up their ass that they cough up their own scalp?

@jerv seen hancock – the prison scene?

@zenele Yes, but that was someone’s head up someone else’s ass.

@jerv True.

So what are you saying – we should have the time to edit and get modded – or should it be a WWF like place, for adults (intellectually speaking – thought that’s now an oxymoron cuz I said wrestling. Now it’s a double oxymoron cuz moron in oxymoron cancelled it. I confused myself. I’m on the way down from an “episode” bear with me guys, sorry if I’ve been mean. PM me if you care and are confused.

@zenele Umm… it’s the WWE now; the World Wildlife Fund got a bit pissy a few years ago and forced a name change.

I know of one place where what’s posted is totally uneditable. While not exactly live, it gets pretty bad there. Many people there post with HTML code in their comments, and if you screw up the code… well, let’s just say that people never make that mistake again. It isn’t modded per se, but there is a peer review system much like the one at the old AB except that it works there. Peer pressure is a motherfucker there, and something that gets downmodded too much disappears automatically.
The reason I bring it up is that people actually do post that sort of stuff there, often with animated GIFs for those that cannot provide their own mental imagery. It’s just that they spell-check and debug it before hitting the “post” button.

WWF WWF WWF WWF.

From your vast knowledge of the wrestling federation, I’m guessing you’re single.

@zenele I celebrated my 9th anniversary earlier this month.
When I was younger, I followed wrestling; I actually went to see Wrestlemania I, but then it got to be less about wrestling and more like a soap opera with some occasional ring action thrown in so I stopped following it back before Vince it the steroids and doubled in bulk.