I just want to give a rousing hip-hip-hooray for the return of comment ratings. Nothing more substantive than that, but I think this change will greatly improve our collective sense of community.
Hooray for the return of comment ratings!
david
| Fri, Sep 21, 2012
10:10 AM EST
Yes indeed! We are very pleased to introduce what we think is a very robust comment rating system. As you'll notice, there are two options, "yay" and "boo," you must be logged in to rate, and the system will keep track of who has rated. We think it's a nice addition.
UPDATE: Many thanks to users who identified 3 problems: votes did not register immediately without refreshing the page; the "preview" toolbar for comments had disappeared; and the recommender for posts was offline. We believe those problems have now been fixed. Please keep letting us know as you find additional issues. Thank you!! - promoted by david
UPDATE: Many thanks to users who identified 3 problems: votes did not register immediately without refreshing the page; the "preview" toolbar for comments had disappeared; and the recommender for posts was offline. We believe those problems have now been fixed. Please keep letting us know as you find additional issues. Thank you!! - promoted by david
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26 Comments . Leave a comment below.I was about to post the same thing.
Looks like like/don’t like.
Further nuances to be explained by our esteemed hosts, no doubt.
When I uprate or down rate, the spinny wheel goes round and round and doesn’t settle out until I refresh the page. Just thought you should know.
We’re working on it. Keep ‘em coming.
But they just clock and clock until I hit refresh
I’m using Firefox v15.0.1 on Windows 7, all seems well so far.
Running Chrome on Windows 7 32
Please try again, we just removed some over-caching measures and HTML compression. We believe this was causing javascript errors effecting a number of functions on the site.
If possible, please also erase your browser cache, refresh the page and report back.
At least on Windows.
The preview button is back, comment ratings seem to work — great job!
Working swimmingly
I didn’t reset anything on my end and it’s working now.
Thanks!
Using Chrome
My former computer was Windows Vista – this one is Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, 64 bit
I’d have to disapprove of the lack of the Oxford comma when the list of who voted is shown….
I love shillelaghlaw’s comment but I prefer not to have the Oxford comma. Should I vote up or down? It would look silly if there were just two names on the list.
But I’m sure that they could write could such that two votes yield no comma, and three or more have the comma. Over-punctuation is equally bad. See Eats, Shoots & Leaves.
n/t
Finally, an answer to Vampire Weekend’s question.
Oxford Comma (NSFW for use of f-bomb)
I tried to recommend avigreen’s redistricting diary, but it didn’t seem to work.
Anyway you should promote it.
http://bluemassgroup.com/2012/09/new-map/
we’re on it.
If there’s any way to have both comments and preview, that would be great. Since comments can’t be edited, the absence of preview is likely to cause my own posts to contain a great many more errors and typos.
Also, I think the issue with comment voting not registering immediately has been fixed. Please test and let us know. Thank you!
tried voting positive twice, positive and negative, etc. only let me vote once and the vote appeared immediately. looks good.
The system detect’s my previous vote, which is good. When I vote something up or down I shouldn’t be able to do it again.
However, I should be able to change a + vote to a – and vice versa. This is desirable for two reasons – people change their minds (this happened a decent amount in the old system – something downrated then after a conversation, some downratings were reconsidered) and also people make mistakes.
It seems to me that whatever part of the code detects you’re previous vote should be able to be modified to accommodate this fairly easily.
The ratings should shown on people’s “My Comments” page
Also the aggregate totals should be shown in non-clickable form on the feed. (Don’t let them clickable on the feed – make people read comments before rating them. We’re reality based dammit!).
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