Hey, neat, looks like flagging works!
We will get you sorted.
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It varies from community to community, but I found Boing Boingâs to be mostly good. The good folks far outweighed the bad. Iâm sure we owe that to exhaustive work of moderators too.
I think the ratio of quality discussion here to people able to participate easily is a bit out of whack. In my private fantasy landâs version of Boing Boing, BBS would be a new feature but not replacing disqus. It sort of defeats the purpose of story commentary if itâs not right there.
Different strokes for different folks I guess. (it took a couple minutes to figure out how to even reply, btw⌠Iâm sure that comes with familiarity, but the system seems pretty unorganized⌠or TOO flexible or something, if that makes sense)
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Because I canât see at a glance if there is a interesting discussion going on, a discussion I want to join. All I can see now are some moderated comments that possibly misrepresent the âgistâ of the other comments.
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Would that be fixed by having the âfull text ofâ posts as thread starters instead of excerpts? Then you (and other users who are in it for the discussions) could use the forums to read BB generally and just dip into the main BB site for fancy features and the like.
If a bandâs Greatest Hits album isnât enough for you to tell if theyâre interesting or not, what is?
That is the intent, to take just the âgreatest hitsâ from each community BBS topic over to the editorial side.
In other words, I hope you guys all like Cheeseburger In Paradise a lot.
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The full text of the original article as the first post of a thread? Hmm never thought of that. Seems like a reasonable compromise. It would work even better if the BBS topics belonging to a BB article would have some sort of sub-header/short excerpt (like google news).
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The problem with the greatest hits approach is that what you/me/the algorithm think is interesting probably isnât interesting to others and stopping them from joining in. Sometimes itâs some obscure comment that opens up a new avenue of discussion.
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If you want deep tracks, click through for the rest of the album.
I would probably click through for the rest anyway but will the casual listener/reader?
I agree. I know that you can click the ârepliesâ at the bottom of a post (kind of hard to see), but doing this as you scroll through the comments can result in reading the same comment over and over again.
Side note: Pleased that I accidentally discovered how to quote reply => highlight the text you want to quote and a quote-reply button just appears. I think that I may be overly excited about this feature.
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⌠and we need a âsort by dateâ option for this.
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FIRST POST! (Well, my first post anyway.)
More thoughts on the commenting system:
Being able to click on the â# repliesâ and then not being able to interact immediately with those replies seems kind of useless.
I dislike that replying to someone sends you to the bottom of the comments and reloads the page with a different URL. So right now I see âforums/327/#â. I cannot figure out exactly what the 327 is supposed to refer to (remove it and it just reappears). And oh dear god the second number changes as I scroll through the comments!
Why does the âlink to this postâ link include my username? How is that useful?
Do we really need to get notifications every time we like something?
Overall I think I agree with other people that one of the reasons why I read boingboing is because of the discussion. It is a bit awkward having to click from my RSS feed to something else to read the discussions. I also highly doubt that I will ever bother to read the ânotable repliesâ ⌠not so useful when they are taken out of context to the rest of the discussion.
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Thatâs kind of the issue, though: I already know I like the band. The completionist in me recoils at reading an arbitrary out-of-order, out-of-context selection of the comments instead of the actual conversation.
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No, he couldnât figure out how to switch over from Disqus so heâs gone.
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OK, I signed up for Gravatar, updated Adobe and Java, created my new Wordpress account, got the free McAfee update, downloaded the Bing toolbar addition, seven other toolbars, bought a magnifying glass for my Iphone, sent in the blood samples, read the terms of service and the instructions on how the Discourse system works, signed up for Discourse, read the little pop-up window that instructs me to comment only if it improves the conversation, provides constructive criticism and is kind to my fellow community members, took a philosophy class, researched the name Antonius to try and provide insight on what the moderatorâs specific personality will consider âimprovementâ, changed my name, pissed my pants, came to terms with everything and shed a few tears.
Canât remember what I was gonna say though.
EDIT: Oh yeah, thatâs right, why canât we âlikeâ replies to comments? That seems weird.
EDIT: Oh, no, I found it. Didnât realize it was just giving additional options on âoriginalâ comments with the âlike it tooâ option as opposed to the little heart.
You know what I really like about this system?: Itâs so streamlined and easy to use.
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Just poppinâ in to make sure everythingâs okay.
Yep, looks good in here.
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Just seeing what happens when I do this.
Aaaand Iâm still not quite sure. I think I used to log in via Twitter (âwritebastardâ is my Twitter handle), but was displayed on the forum as âIan Wood.â I went to Preferences to change my User Name to âIanWoodâ but was frightened off by the Are you sure you want to do this? question.
Hrrrm. Itâs late.
