[conesus]

You raise an interesting point. That technique was developed in response to a difficult part of the migration. I had stories coming in for subsequent pages of an rss feed, but I didn't want to re-render the story view until I had a chance to work with the un-rendered story views.

I realize this can be a bit complicated, but at some point you'll be wishing you could just turn off an event from firing because it's interfering with a juggling act. This is what that technique is used for.

But any project that reaches a certain scale will tend towards having some unfortunate ties between models that makes a more-than-ordinary transition hard to accomplish. It can be done, but I'm not quite there, and I suspect many other developers aren't either. This one's a stopgap.