Journal CmdrTaco's Journal: Discussion2 In-Place Posting Testing 16
this functionality is currently only available to paid subscribers, and several hundred of them have tested it out already. We still need to make it look pretty and add a few minor things (like the CAPTCHA for anonymous posting) but it's almost done.
Also worth noting is that logged in users can click on the 'Score' field of comments to view the moderation information on the comment. This information was previously not visible within D2, unless you navigated outside the d2 system (opening a comment in a new window did it). I doubt most people really care about this info, but it's available.
We also have one (perhaps minor) thing to get in... right now if you visit a comment directly via a CID link you can navigate within that thread, but navigating 'up' the comment hierarchy results in a new page, and a new discussion... this makes context a pain to maintain. So pudge is going to change that page to display the parent posts in an abbreviated format. This will mean that you can climb back up the thread easily, even if you entered the forum via a link deep into a thread.
A few minor items left on the todo list (keybindings for threshold changes... maybe press 'r' to open the reply slideout from the current comment, and a bunch of small design issues to make the threads a little more visually clear and easily navigatable) and we're ready to call D2 finished.
We have no plans to remove D1, so those of you who hate D2 are welcome to stay on the old system, but obviously new moderation tools and whatever else we think of will be attached to D2, not D1, so you've been warned
I'm doing it right now (Score:2)
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For me, the main short coming is design issues... which I'm glad to say will be fixed RSN. Wes (ou
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Also, pressing 'r' already does work to reply to a currently selected comment. Hooray!
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Proposed new keybindings
there's other things we could add purely as a matter of convenience
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My fear is that people would post comments saying terrible things... and then 60 seconds later delete it. Now we could prevent comments from being delayed for 60 seconds to stop this abuse... but at that point, what is the difference between "Preview" and that?
How about an eBay-style "--- On March 22, 2008 at 21:30 CmdrTaco added the following: ---"? That would achieve the result of being able to clarify/correct without the problematic feature of changing what you had wrote. And perhaps it should only be available as long as your post wasn't moderated, so as to prevent someone's +5 post being later edited with some malware link appended to it.
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If you update your comment then your comment says "A, Not A." but a reader of that comment wouldn't necessarily see the greater context (which is that another user corrected you).
And still- the potential for abuse is still high. It just really makes me nervous to let som
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My general thought is that this is what *replies* are for. If you post 'A' and then someone else says 'Not A' and then you realize that you were wrong... you should reply to *him* or reply to yourself and say "Oh you're right. Not A."
Good point. I wonder if the situation has ever occurred where someone unintentionally pasted in some text they didn't want to. Such as rather than pasting a great quote relevant to the discussion, they accidentally posted some sensitive banking information because the other text didn't get copied to the clipboard and they submitted their comment out of reflex. I'm sure that's an extreme edge case though.
I sort of like the other suggestion where submitting the comment results in it going into a one minute t
Nice, but not switching (Score:2)
Of course, in a true Web 2.0 world, things like sorting the comments should be done on the client side
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That said, the default settings retrieve the top rated comments first, which was done intentionally to meet your needs. The 2 threshold controllers are 'abbreviate' and 'full'. You set the full bar in the middle, and the abbreviate bar lower. If you scroll through the discussion you see the highest rated comments. If you want to expand into the threads, the information is there.
It's different. You have to get used to it. But it w
Is it broken? (Score:2)
I think it all comes down to "html_doc.appendChild is not a function" on line 55 of comments.js: "html_doc.appendChild(js);" which is probably preventing some other necessary include from happening (as it seems to be a javascript including function).
Browser
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