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.
Please share widely!
Reality-based commentary on politics.
centralmassdad says
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.
John Tehan says
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.
David says
We’re working on it. Keep ’em coming.
John Tehan says
But they just clock and clock until I hit refresh
SomervilleTom says
I’m using Firefox v15.0.1 on Windows 7, all seems well so far.
Mr. Lynne says
Running Chrome on Windows 7 32
bmg says
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.
sco says
At least on Windows.
SomervilleTom says
The preview button is back, comment ratings seem to work — great job!
centralmassdad says
Working swimmingly
Mr. Lynne says
I didn’t reset anything on my end and it’s working now.
John Tehan says
Thanks!
centralmassdad says
Using Chrome
John Tehan says
My former computer was Windows Vista – this one is Windows 7 Home Premium, Service Pack 1, 64 bit
shillelaghlaw says
I’d have to disapprove of the lack of the Oxford comma when the list of who voted is shown….
kate says
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.
shillelaghlaw says
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.
shillelaghlaw says
n/t
tblade says
Finally, an answer to Vampire Weekend’s question.
Oxford Comma (NSFW for use of f-bomb)
marcus-graly says
I tried to recommend avigreen’s redistricting diary, but it didn’t seem to work.
Anyway you should promote it. đŸ˜‰
http://vps28478.inmotionhosting.com/~bluema24/2012/09/new-map/
David says
we’re on it.
SomervilleTom says
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.
David says
Also, I think the issue with comment voting not registering immediately has been fixed. Please test and let us know. Thank you!
johnk says
tried voting positive twice, positive and negative, etc. only let me vote once and the vote appeared immediately. looks good.
Mr. Lynne says
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.
Mr. Lynne says
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!).