The sequence where someone joins, and then quits pretty rapidly. Usually because something was mentioned in another discussion and people join, review for the event, and quit.

-- ThePrisoner - 05 Aug 2003

Hopefully drive-by events of interesting info could be handled by putting that info in a memo...

-- GaranceDrosehn - 06 Aug 2003

The presence of drive-by events was not entirely unexpected. It gives the discussion participants the ability to determine what a particular person might have been able to see, since a review of the discussion events establishes a temporal context. It is also useful in that a block of rapid, and associated, join-quit events can be a trigger to indicate cross-discussion interest.

-- ChristianRatliff - 06 Aug 2003

One of the current responses to drive-bys has been to disable reviews in certain discussions, which restricts the discussion always to current members. Which might in turn lead to JoinAndLurk^?. Which has led to lots of depermits.

-- CoKe - 12 Jul 2004

To my mind these are all good things. It places the control over information and participation in the hands of the discussion members. Allowing exterior review of discussion events is the same principle as pressing your ear against a door, not something a system wants to encourage.

-- ChristianRatliff - 14 Jul 2004
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