Things that becomes “finished” (‘Posts’) versus Things that don’t (‘Lists’):
Finished: Posts/Comments are (individually) created, then submitted.
Common Exceptions: “Update” may be appended to the end, followed by content. Alternatively, changes may be made, and described in a section added to the end marked “Edit”.
Un-Finished: All Posts, All Questions, All Sequences (The Library). These lists keeps changing.
While a List may come to an end, if all Lists die (and stay dead), that’s a sufficient condition for the site to be considered dead.
That’s not to say the site would be dead if there stopped being new posts for a time—if people started revising their posts, and submitting those changes, discussion of ideas (and the life of the site) could continue—but then the currently existing posts would “living lists” while “all posts” would be dead.
Things that becomes “finished” (‘Posts’) versus Things that don’t (‘Lists’):
Finished: Posts/Comments are (individually) created, then submitted.
Common Exceptions: “Update” may be appended to the end, followed by content. Alternatively, changes may be made, and described in a section added to the end marked “Edit”.
Un-Finished: All Posts, All Questions, All Sequences (The Library). These lists keeps changing.
While a List may come to an end, if all Lists die (and stay dead), that’s a sufficient condition for the site to be considered dead.
That’s not to say the site would be dead if there stopped being new posts for a time—if people started revising their posts, and submitting those changes, discussion of ideas (and the life of the site) could continue—but then the currently existing posts would “living lists” while “all posts” would be dead.
The pattern seem to be “Lists”, which can go on forever, contain “items” which have a short life.