By Kieron Gillen on December 11th, 2009 at 11:10 am.
The “Reply” is twitchy. Or, at least, it’s easy to mess up. When replying, always put the name of the person you’re responding to. I’ll show an example of what I mean in the comments thread. Because reply strings are dozens long anyway, it helps the debate even if the reply option works. Also, it makes the forum much more readable, as right now it’s often just a random bunch of comments with no idea of who’s responding to who.


Here is a reply!
KG
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Kieron Gillen: Here is a reply to a reply!
KG
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Kieron Gillen: Okay, I think I understand!
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Ah, I get it, putting “KG” at the end of your comment makes the reply function work!
Good to know.
KG
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q.e.d.!
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Kieron Gillen: I’m amazed it took on of you this long to snap!
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I never had any trouble replying and I’m on a mobile.
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I prefer the comments just to be in order, that way everone just starts with @username: if it is a reply.
KG
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@KG isn’t putting KG at the end of your comment a little redudant seeing as a couple of inches above it it says your name?
KG
Gunrun
KG
Anyway lets see if I got this right
(KG)
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Kieron Gillen: Is this how it works?
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Kieron Gillen: testing
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What I don’t understand is, the forums on kenickie.com 10 years ago (which I’ve just realised is still there!) had a better comment threading system than WordPress seems to be able to manage now. Why is it so difficult to do?
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WordPress is a blog program. It don’t need a good forum the way a tank don’t need to fly like a copter, but the way a copter don’t need to shot or drive intact trough a bus.
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@ Tei: Admit it though, a tank like that would rule.
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Tei: I think blogging software, indeed any site at all which allows comments, should do it properly. Livejournal and Slashdot, for example, manage this more or less.
A comment system with no threading at all is a pain. A comment system which only allows one level of nesting and has such a horrible interface that you can’t tell whether your comment is going to end up in the right place and ends up with the person who runs the site having to make a post asking people to mark who they’re replying to manually as a workaround, is worse. If RPS can’t fix this they should probably just remove the reply-to-other-comment button altogether.
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“properly” is a moving target. change from person to person, and on the same persona, by this person needs.
for a blog, you just need a way to post something, see that in a cronical view (Older Last, Newer First) with a paging mechanism, and a way to comment these post’s probably as laisez free has possible, but withouth images support.
on a blog you want to anonymous people to post, on a forum you want everyone to register. A blog and a forum are two different things, like a copter and a tank. Of course, you can always have a hybrid, but then, you have to choose on some tradeoffs. People hate tradeoffs, but some are unavoidable.
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Tei:
RPS does of course have both a blog and a forum, which are integrated to some extent. So if they have different needs (and I don’t agree that they do because the commenting features I would like to see would be a benefit in both contexts) then ideally they should have a solution which meets both those needs.
Comment systems should have threading. Why? Because you can still provide a flat view if you want to. You can’t do it the other way round. I really don’t see trade-offs here: there’s a way that’s good, that allows branching conversations that are possible to follow, that allows you to get a threaded view or a flat chronologically ordered view depending on taste, that allows you to have a helicopter and a tank in one, and there’s a way that doesn’t. Now if someone really doesn’t want branching conversations happening in comments on their blog, then well, that’s up to them I guess, but RPS obviously do or they wouldn’t have added the comment threading features in the first place.
But hey, this is only one of a whole host of useability issues with the site and it’s still my favourite place on the internet so they must be doing something right.. :)
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Dagda: I think I got it!
KG
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It’s easy when you know how.
KG
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Me too.
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Neut: Argh that was meant to be a reply to Neut.
Wakakakakaka
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I agree
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Today will be a day for punching.
KG
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Dear Kieron, tell me how to ‘be’ Goro.
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Bow down to my comment reply-fu!
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Kieron:
Why would you want to punch KG?
KG
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Kieron Gillen: Punching is all well and good but you need to define terms; A rabbit punch, for example, is very different from a donkey punch, I recently learnt to my cost.
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What? Fluffy little rabbits don’t punch! They just eat magic carrots and are promiscuous.
KG
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Check Check.
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Andrew: Check Check Check
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also testing
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1 2 3
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I agree with this post.
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D: I strenuously disagree and will be boycotting checking until the DRM is removed.
KG
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I don’t think the reply system is really working out.
It was easier to follow *before* replies were instituted. I liked it when all posts were in chronological order.
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What if I click reply, then forget who I was replying to! my comment could end up anywhere! especially as it doesn’t tell me!
KG
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@fearian
I do wish the reply system would repeat the post you’re replying to in a box right above the “Wot you want to say:” box, so I don’t need to scroll up (as I did just now) to see exactly what you said so I can reference it.
KG
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@jad
I do wish the reply system would repeat the post you’re replying to in a box right above the “Wot you want to say:” box, so I don’t need to scroll up (as I did just now) to see exactly what you said so I can reference it.
…just cut&paste the text into your own post, then get rid of it after you have written your bit.
(m’kay gee)
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did i do it rite kg
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Embrace chaos.
KG
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Kamos:
It certainly has broken loose.
KG
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Also, don’t be a fucking ["Coat" - Ed]. It regularly gobsmacks me how pissy and vile (some of) the community here are, when the RPSers are so sweet.
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Ed, not sure what “Coat” is a stand in for in this context.
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It was originally him calling us a cuss word. The C-bomb to be precise.
KG
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C U Next Tuesday.
KG
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sebmojo: Pot, kettle?
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@ Pimorte
I concur, I think the whole @ or IRT and the name worked grand – particularly in the forum section.
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Are all ‘other’ contributors with initials KG to be hunted down and shipped to a gulag for re-education and a fresh moniker?
KG
*returns to RPS FAQ* ;)
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do we know WHEN it’s glitchy? I never pay attention to it until AFTER it goes wrong.
Is it that it doesn’t register the “reply” and doesn’t put the “click here to cancel reply”. Or is it that it registers the “click here to cancel the reply” but then doesn’t actually make a reply?
A quick fix might be to make the “click here to cancel reply” more visible: BIG BOLD TEXT or something. Or even make the comment box change color when it’s a reply?
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myself:
I seem to have days when it works every time, and days when it never works.
KG
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One thing I noticed when it didn’t work was that the URL indicated that it was a reply, but the red “Click here to cancel reply.” text was missing. Dunno if that’s in any way relevant though.
KG
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I am replying to Bill.
If you are not bill, please ignore this message.
KG
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I find it works if I do nothing funny when replying. Click “reply”, click “Opinion Away”. If I click on a link, or go to another page and come back, or if I cancel a reply and then try to reply again, or if my internet connection goes funny, then it doesn’t work.
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Is this how it works, Kieron?
KG
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(I have to admit, it’s never not worked for me.)
KG
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‘Tis a test!
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The commenting system here is a total joke. For the one that gets closest to not being a joke, look at the Slashdot one. It still fails in the core, but at least it halfway works.
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@Barefoot
Ugh, I can’t stand the slashdot system. Half the comments seem to be invisible at any one time, and its too easy to become burried in a comment branch.
Must admit, I don’t think I’ve had the comments system fail for me, or if I have, its only the once.
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As a subscriber, I demand that you charge us more and hire someone to set up a proper Vbulletin board for the forums and to redesign the comments system!
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Just don’t use VB 4.0.
KG
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Actually, fuck that, use VB 4.0 and instead of writing blog posts here, use their CMS to write articles that appear on the front page.
KG
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I have to sign in for replies it to work.
TAKE HEED
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LK: It also works after I do a first post in a thread. I can reply with every subsequent post without logging in, but the first can’t be a reply.
KG
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Removing replies also has the benefit of forcing the forum threads to make sense.
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I have no clucking idea how to reply correctly in the forum, but replies to comments on the article always seemed to work fine for me.
+1 for just posting the article and having a link to a vbulletin etc discussion thread, like, eg Tacticularcancer would do.
EDIT – can you read the comments nested in the forum?
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Heliocentric (not necessarily just to you, but pointing out ‘I understand’): I think he meant that even when a reply does work, putting the name of the person who you are replying to helps others know who you are really responding to. This is especially true when there are a large number of replies to a comment, then there can be multiple reply-points/conversations going on at once. Did I get it right?
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Stop talking sense please.
GK
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@KG: Ok, I have forget to mark my message as a reply on this thread, but I will try to remenber it on the future. :-)
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WHO IS REPLYING TO WHOM. AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH! I find the writing of the Hivemind and all its appendages very entertaining and informative, so please know this is very loving and friendly criticism: seriously! Whom! It’s not hard. I’d go as far as suggesting that not using it is like gaming on a console. There, I said it.
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jarvoll:
It’s just useless inflection that should have been expunged from the language long ago.
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Dear Jarvoll,
You forgot to address yourself to Kieron. :)
KG
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I don’t understand what’s going on.
At all.
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@deanimate What…
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I understand. It’s people who are happy to make themselves targets for extermination on the holy day of revolution.
KG
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@deanimate …don’t…
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I have yet to come across one thread that isn’t completely messed up half way into the comment section…
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@deanimate …you…
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Oh you cads, the lot of you with KG in your names up there, leave poor Kieron alone. :p Especially since — and this is a rather important factor which everyone should take into consideration and have a little think about — he’s right.
There’s nothing more irritating than people who improperly use the forums system, where a reply to you is on another page, and marked with Anonymous Coward, almost as if the person posting it is the coward and they’re doing all they can to hide their reply to you from you, the naughty little buggers.
It’s quite simple really, you have an entry box at the bottom of the page, you use that to post a reply to the news article or some thought you’ve had which is related to that article. You stuff in your thoughts like an eager young parent filling their Christmas stocking for the happy little children who’ll be perplexed by your offerings, and then you jab the “Opinion, Away!” button.
Conversely, if you wish to make a comment on a reply to the article that someone else has made, you cannot simply hop, skip, and jump to the bottom of the page, jab the aforementioned “Opinion, Away!” button, and expect the board software to super-calla-magically-figure-out-whom-you’re-replying-to! And if you try using WordPress trickery, the best you’ll get is a detached comment where it’s not supposed to be, and youre quote marked up with ‘Anonymous Coward’ as the poor sod you’re replying to. While that might be entertaining, it is not ultimately all that helpful. To do things the right and proper way, you will need to seek out the ever loyal little Reply button at the bottom of that reply. If you are having trouble with this process then you may wish to see if you have Javascript disabled globally or for this domain.
If however, you see a comment to a reply someone has made, and you want to offer your thoughts on that, you have to repeat the process I spoke of in the last paragraph, but helpfully add @Name so we’ll all know who you’re jolly well talking to! It would be so helpful.
One would imagine that a successful comments thread would look a little something like this:
|- Person 1: I’m saying something!
|—- Person 2: I’m replying to Person 1.
|—- Person 3: I also have things to say to Person 1.
|—- Person 4: @Person 2 – I’m replying to your reply to Person 1.
|- Person 5: I’m writing something which isn’t related enough to wot Person 1 said enough to be a reply.
|- Person 6: Yeah, I have unique things to say too!
|—- Person 7: No, you don’t, you’re that idiot who always yells 1st!
I believe this is the approach the good Mr. Gillen is after, so let’s make a concerted effort, eh? Good!
I’ll also attempt to not use [forum markup tags] in future as opposed to HTML markup tags (though how successful I’ll be with resisting their siren’s call is unknown).
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@ Wulf: Yes, sir?
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@Ian
Good man, though mostly I too am rather fed up with the disjointed ‘Anonymous Coward’ posts, I have to go running about the entire thread like a fool, trying to figure out whom that particular fool had foolishly replied to without hitting the Reply button.
…it’s got me so worked up that I’m sounding like Franziska from Phoenix Wright.
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@Wulf
I believe the ‘Anonymous Coward’ bits are a result of someone replying through the forums, rather than the WordPress comments system. If the original poster posts through the blog when not logged in, then any subsequent replies on the forums will list them and anonymous coward.
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@deanimate …understand?
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@KG: I lament the lack of an illustrative screenshot for this whole blog post.
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@DMJ
Though I suppose it doesn’t hurt to always put the name in as a countermeasure, assuming the reply button is prone to failure (though it hasn’t failed for me, yet).
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I tend to avoid reading front page articles in the forum for this very reason and the reason I was a bit dubious about the way that worked in the first place. I’m sure it’s a common way of doing it, but there aren’t many sites where I used the front page AND the message boards so it was a new one to a hermit like me.
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Blaming people for the inadequacies of a system.
Fix it or edit the posts.
KG
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@Derf
But it’s not the inadequacies of a system, it’s not at all. The only error I’ve ever made is using forum tags when the board expects HTML tags, and that’s been my fault for simply operating on habit instead of stopping to think about what I’m doing, and I’ve kicked myself for it.
We can’t always blame technology for PEBCAK.
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Wulf: Derf’s not wrong. The system is totally inadequate. It’s just that we can’t do anything about it, so I’m trying to make what we’ve got more useable. I’m not blaming people. I’m just saying how we can make it work a bit better.
KG
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@KG
Fair enough, but what I mean is that the Reply button has never failed for me and I feel that the posts replying to Anonymous Coward are born of PEBCAK and nothing more.
But still, I will admit that it is a little unintuitive, but we could all still do a better job of making replies than what we’re doing now. This is the RPS community and I’ve come to have high expectations of this lot. It’s their own fault for usually being competent and intelligent. Were it a more everyday forum, I wouldn’t have cited PEBCAK.
So, in an odd sort of way, it’s a compliment. I just know they can all be very competent.
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@D
Of course you would agree with this post because you are Hitler! Also your thinly veiled racism is obvious for everyone. Why dont you leave us alone and go back to beating up orphans and clubbing baby seals.
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@shiggz
You didn’t hit the Reply button, did you?
*** Wulf is having too much fun with this.
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So let’s see, is it safe to assume that KG is after this kind of end result?
|- Person 1: I’m not replying to anyone because this is a first tier comment, I’m just offering my thoughts in relation to the article.
|- Person 2: I too have thoughts in relation to the article, which are very similar to yours.
|—- Person 3: @Person 2 – Whose? You didn’t hit the reply button, did you?
|—- Person 2: No, I did not.
|—- Person 3: @Person 2 – No no no, you’re supposed to include the name you’re replying to.
|—- Person 2: @Person 3 – Like this?
|—- Person 3: @Person 2 – Yes!
|—- Person 4: @Person 2 – And all was well with the World.
It does have a sort of visual harmony to it.
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…And so, a new and horrifying meme was born.
KG
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@pkt-zer0
Indeed! Though if you really want to be cool, you should put your own name there.
Wulf
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@Meredith
Yes, I will buy some chips today thanks.
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We use the Intense Debate wordpress plugin: http://intensedebate.com/
Seems O.K.
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I think half the problem stems from people trying to view articles on the forum when actually they should be trying to read the proper page for it. That way all the posts are in the right place. That’s if the reply system works, it seems to be a bit dodgy sometimes for some people.
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Testing comment functionality!
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Daedren: responding to him, because it never works for me. ever.
KG
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Gpig: Responding to you, because Daedren sucks.
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Hot damn
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Aww!
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I utterly love each and every one of you and this entry and its responses are typical of the reason why.
KG
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Kieran Gillan:
is @ Kieran Gillan or “To Kieran Gillan” okay as a reply format?
(Just in case I forget).
KG
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@Quercus: I think he prefers Kieron, but I could be wrong =)
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@KG: In regards to your “Derf’s not wrong. The system is totally inadequate. It’s just that we can’t do anything about it, so I’m trying to make what we’ve got more useable. I’m not blaming people. I’m just saying how we can make it work a bit better.”
That’s not entirely true. You can do some things about it. I’m not sure who your WordPress guy is, but you should point him to a few plugins.
I would recommend:
First and foremost! http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/edit-comments/ — Edit Comments! Not that hard to implement, works on the WP sites I’ve done. (AJAX one available also http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/)
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/intensedebate/ — Use this if you want to have ranking up/down, twitter shit, bells and whistles.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymcecomments/ — Ahah! A WYSIWYG Thingy for Comments. Now user comments can be formatted, spaced correctly and can even have colors and stuff! It’s like Christmas 2 weeks early!
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/top-commentators-widget/ — Top Commentators, if you wanted to know and show who loves RPS the most.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/comment-sorter/ — Great plugin to sort comments. Can do by date, author, whatever.
http://disqus.com/ – Haven’t tried this out, but I’ve heard good things. It completely replaces your comment system. Supports Facebook Connect (can make comments from FB account), RSS, Ranking Up/Down, can even look at other users comments on other sites. Worth looking into.
http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress — Use this if you want people to see what’s new since they last visited. I use this for Comments, as it allows visitors to follow the topics that have been discussed since they were last on site.
http://www.sociable.es/facebook-connect — A standalone Facebook Connect plugin, if you dont want all the shit from Disqus.
AJAX – You could AJAXafy the comment system here. It’s a bit more complicated, and people either love it or hate it. Something like AJAX WP http://www.giannim.com/blog/index.php?page_id=13 would be good.
I guess while we’re on the topic, some more stuff you might be interested in:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-to-twitter/ — Automagically makes a ‘Tweet’ about any new article you publish. I hate Twitter, but use it if you like it.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/ – I’d recommend this if you don’t have it, makes the site IPhone / Mobile friendly. Very nice.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-security-scan/ – I’d use this so people like me don’t haxxor into your WP.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-calendar/ – In case you want to ever Webafy the TF2 / RPS Steam Group Events. (Replacement for the WP Calendar)
Anyway, mix and match what you need, but don’t say you can’t do anything about it. You can!
Give me a shout if you need any help.
– Daedren
(WTF!)
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@KG: In regards to your “Derf’s not wrong. The system is totally inadequate. It’s just that we can’t do anything about it, so I’m trying to make what we’ve got more useable. I’m not blaming people. I’m just saying how we can make it work a bit better.”
That’s not entirely true. You can do some things about it. I’m not sure who your WordPress guy is, but you should point him to a few plugins.
NOTE: I’m splitting these comments up because it gets marked as SPAM. YAY.
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I would recommend:
First and foremost! http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/edit-comments/ — Edit Comments! Not that hard to implement, works on the WP sites I’ve done. (AJAX one available also http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-ajax-edit-comments/)
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/intensedebate/ — Use this if you want to have ranking up/down, twitter shit, bells and whistles.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/tinymcecomments/ — Ahah! A WYSIWYG Thingy for Comments. Now user comments can be formatted, spaced correctly and can even have colors and stuff! It’s like Christmas 2 weeks early!
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http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/top-commentators-widget/ — Top Commentators, if you wanted to know and show who loves RPS the most.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/comment-sorter/ — Great plugin to sort comments. Can do by date, author, whatever.
http://disqus.com/ – Haven’t tried this out, but I’ve heard good things. It completely replaces your comment system. Supports Facebook Connect (can make comments from FB account), RSS, Ranking Up/Down, can even look at other users comments on other sites. Worth looking into.
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http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress — Use this if you want people to see what’s new since they last visited. I use this for Comments, as it allows visitors to follow the topics that have been discussed since they were last on site.
http://www.sociable.es/facebook-connect — A standalone Facebook Connect plugin, if you dont want all the shit from Disqus.
AJAX – You could AJAXafy the comment system here. It’s a bit more complicated, and people either love it or hate it. Something like AJAX WP http://www.giannim.com/blog/index.php?page_id=13 would be good.
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I guess while we’re on the topic, some more stuff you might be interested in:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-to-twitter/ — Automagically makes a ‘Tweet’ about any new article you publish. I hate Twitter, but use it if you like it.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wptouch/ – I’d recommend this if you don’t have it, makes the site IPhone / Mobile friendly. Very nice.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-security-scan/ – I’d use this so people like me don’t haxxor into your WP.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/events-calendar/ – In case you want to ever Webafy the TF2 / RPS Steam Group Events. (Replacement for the WP Calendar)
Anyway, mix and match what you need, but don’t say you can’t do anything about it. You can!
Give me a shout if you need any help.
– Daedren
(WTF!)
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Whats it matter anyway. Its, like the majority of the internets, worthless information. People just make inane comments then they forget about them. Everything has to have them, you read through a ton of them and then realise what the hell have a been doing for the last half hour(the sensible people dont bother reading them).
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@ Calabi
“worthless information”
Plenty of people give useful information about bugs, tweaks, patches, similar games, links to sites – loads of stuff. User contributions may be worthless for you but many people find them useful, interesting and enjoyable.
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Is there not just some simple way to make comment replies not be nested under their parent, i.e. showing all comments in chronological order? That would eliminate this entire issue.
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jsutcliffe: There is, just view the replies on the forum.
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@jacques
My point was that if both the forum and the blog comments displayed in the same order, there would be no issue. Additionally, if blog comments are chronological it would force people to reference the name of the person they’re addressing if they want to make any sense.
I am also sure you are just trying to be difficult, so I’m subscribing you to KG’s punching list. Enjoy!
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Can easily do that with Comment Sorter Plugin.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/comment-sorter/
Think you can have it show chronologically by default also.
– D
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i like turtles
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me too, them snapping turtles are best
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Jimmy, I agree with you, though this is just a thinly veiled test of the commenting system. I think it worked for me once.
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SO DO I
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Am I just lucky if I have never had a reply problem?
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Now to disprove myself.
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@frosty
I agree – I’ve never had any problems either. I think it’s a user problem, really. It’s not entirely clear what the difference between the “Reply” button on each post and the text box at the bottom of the page is, so I can see it being easy to make a mistake.
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@jsutcliffe: Is a very rare event, I don’t know how to reproduce it, but I think It exist, because I have been afected. Probably is a combination of posting / canceling the post, so you can make 1 million post and never see it, and probably is reproducible once we know the exact steps that generate it.
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@jsutcliffe
Mine seems to screw up if I have to fill out my info like name and e-mail, but seems to work fine on the second attempt. Usually… your mileage may vary.
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When you have to post a news specifically for the reply button, it means that the reply button logic is broken. Therefore fix the problem instead of denying it. :D
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@toro: Hi!
Some advice! When writing things make sure your concerns have not been addressed!
For example. KG said:
“Wulf: Derf’s not wrong. The system is totally inadequate. It’s just that we can’t do anything about it, so I’m trying to make what we’ve got more useable. I’m not blaming people. I’m just saying how we can make it work a bit better.
KG”
I hope you realise my point. They can’t fix it. So he’s trying to make the best of the situation. Your comment did not help the situation.
Thanks!
Yours,
Frosty-Minister of combating stupidity.
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Shouldn’t the news tags also include, “Kieron goes mad and wears nothing besides a Raccoon skin hat” and “Kieron goes mad and begins eating live wallabys”?
Though utterly false, we won’t ever see these tags again, so a bit of utter ridiculousness would’ve been great.
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@DJ Phantoon
Yes, yes they should.
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@Daedren (and KG)
I mentioned once before that I’m sure the RPS community includes some web developers (me, for example, but I’m not a PHP guy) — I wonder if there’s a way the RPS leaders can engage the community for this kind of maintenance task.
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whilst we’re bitching about the reply, can I also bitch about the ‘comments’ being paged now? And in the wrong order, yet. Oldest should be first on the list, not newest, otherwise nothing makes any sense.
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I remember at least four or five pages of comments when they first unveiled the new design, and the majority of comments seemed to fall under three categories: kudos/complaints about the change in general, miscellaneous bugs, and massive grumbling about the pagination, especially the backwardsness of the order. James the web designer seemed to intimate that it would be technologically possible to have the first page of comments be the first one that opens up. I’m surprised that this still hasn’t been fixed
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@Daedren
cor blimey – hire this entity pronto!
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ya see the reply button didnae work for me…
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Kieron
I like the nested replies for the comments (though it would be great if you could nest with a nest, rather than be restricted to the one level), however quite clearly the problem is that the translation to the forum doesn’t replicate the behaviour. That seems to be what needs to be looked at.
If it’s possible to replicate it, then I’d say do so. If it can’t then I’d say remove the nested response system from comments (which will mean everyone starts using @…. in their responses as before.
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I gotta say, I’m pretty disappointed that you guys have just given up on ever having a working comments system, especially almost since every other community site on the web seems to have this problem licked. I had assumed that this was a temporary glitch that would get fixed in due course.
Also, how about starting on the *first* page of comments when one clicks into an article, instead of the last? It’s hard to imagine that anybody prefers to start reading comments near the end (not even AT the end, just kind of in the vicinity) rather than at the beginning.
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I’ve yet to have a reply fail where I was actually paying attention to what I was doing, so I’m increasingly confident it’s a user error issue. Regardless, for clarity of forum threads and cases where I lose track of what I’m doing, I’ll try and do as Kieron suggests.
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Never been a fan of turtles.
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Well, I must be doing something wrong then because I clicked ‘Reply’ to Jimmy’s post and it posted a separate post.
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@Simon
Let’s see if this works.
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@Wulf
The ‘reply’ function has never worked for me, so after the first three times I’ve given up on commenting on RPS (still read it frequently). I don’t use the forums though – never looked in there tbh….
I think quite a few people are being a bit smug about how ‘the Reply button has never failed for me’, and how all you need to do is “seek out the ever loyal little Reply button at the bottom of that reply”.
Maybe my freshly formatted PC will do better than its previous incarnation on the RPS comments. But anyway, as has been said by others – and Kieron (and if you read this, Beta Ray Bill was awesome) himself – it is broken.
Daedren seems to have some ideas on how to fix it though!
KG
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(apparently, my computer Says thee nay!)
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WillHobson: Well, you can reply to yourself at least…
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Hah the one time it works its in reply to MYSELF, nice.
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Will it work?
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No, of course it didn’t work. Never does.
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Sometimes it does.
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Kieron Gillen: It’s broken.
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Hmm, probably should fix this.
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@James: That would be fantastic! Pretty please? Also, comment page sorting, if you don’t mind. Those are pretty much the last two things on this site that don’t work like they should. Thanks in advance!
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Oh, and maybe put the comment page navigation thingy (Page x of x |<<| 1 | 2 |) on top of the comments, additionally to the one on the bottom, for extra fast and convenient navigation. Thanks!
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@ Kieron Gillen
Does this work? Is the @ necessary? Is there supposed to be a space? Why the hell are people using what is traditionally a sig line to say who they are responding to, that makes no sense. Do it at the top.
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@WeirdRussian
Does THIS work? I *will* spam comments to random people until I make it work.
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MycoRunner
Nope, still nothing. Trying to reply to my own thread.
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I hate my life.
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