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Okay, I just made two significant changes to the default comment display mode for users. The comment sorting mode has become "oldest first" and the display mode is now "nested". If you don't like the way comments get squished to the right of the page then you probably want to go into your user preferences and set the default to either threaded (which displays comment replies as links) or flat (which displays all of the comments as they used to look before).
Only users which had the old default setting where changed. If you had already set your comment display mode or sorting method to something else, your settings were left alone.
Also, almost everyone now has a default comment threshold at 0.
Scott
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Okay, I'm changing the default comment display mode to *threaded*. I found out that the nested mode takes several times as long to load and a few people have already e-mailed me saying they hate the way it mangles the posts.
Scott
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by Anonymous User on Tuesday March 05, @07:32AM EST (#2)
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This is a test comment which I intend to moderate down to -1.
Scott
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And it doesn't seem to be working, for some reason the lowest score a comment can have is 0, not -1. I'll look into this further.
Scott
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Hmmm...it seems that comments can only range in score between 0 and 3, and I vaguely recollect doing this long ago in the database to simplify things. Whoa boy...I'll have to give some serious thought about how to fix this.
Scott
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by Anonymous User on Tuesday March 05, @12:51PM EST (#6)
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Some of us would also appreciate if
misandrist comments would also be deleated.
I mean, they do not allow any dissent on MS
boards.
But then allowing misandrist comments
may create lively debate and boost the traffic.
I do not know.
John Knouten
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I think the problem with deleting misandrist comments, ignoring the whole subjectivity problem, is that there are a lot more users and potential trollers than administrators who could delete such comments. Trying to implement a policy like that would have us doomed from the start, I'm afriad.
Our comment deleting "policy" as it stands now is only to remove comments that put us at significant and credible legal risk, and also those which are so obviously flame or troll posts that no one could deny it. For example, last week I deleted two comments that were nothing more than a series of explicatives. They had no content at all.
I think having a free posting policy while using common sense with really outrageous posts is the best we can do. Trolls and dissent are always going to be part of our ongoing discussions. The moderation system should help minimize their negative impact.
Scott
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Dear Scott,
I have not gotten a thousand hits yet,
while you got a million. I guess your policy is
the best.
CONTACT THE MEDIA!
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The solution?
Mod to -1. That way we can filter them out if we wanted to.
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