WordPress.com has offered a new upgrade which I’ve installed. It allows replies to individual comments and nested replies 3 levels deep. Feel free to use this new feature. Try it out here.
– Anthony
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Well when I first read this last night, the text was so small, I couldn’t read it, so now I am looking again; it’s still too small to read.
George
Hi Anthony,
I’m a moderator on the EUreferendum where each blog post starts a thread. Registered users on returning to the forum then can see all the posts on all threads since their last visit, making it easy to keep up and very easy to moderate.
E-mail me if I can help?
Regardless of the method used for nesting, I believe it imperative that programming be designed to insert posts regarding temperature first, and those concerning CO2 nested second or third. It would trouble me to see temperature subordinate to CO2 :~D.
Anthony,
Agree with those who are ‘sceptical’! Wherever I’ve come across this nested threading it really breaks up the narrative flow. Sure a flat list can go OT for a while, but often the comments will refer to various aspects of the thread and people can learn all kinds of things, especially those new to the blog.
Nested threads encourage a return to specific areas (with difficulty) – the result being that if you have no particular interest in a ‘nest’ you skip it. Yet if you read it, as you would do the comments in a flat thread you could learn learn a lot more.
Anthony
I don’t like it I have to say. I follow the threads in a linear fashion and note where they have got to so I can pick them up again, and if comments get posted halfway up I don’t even know they are there and would have to go backwards to check or miss them altogether. If there is a vote on this I would vote a polite no. If there isn’t then I will have to lump it, not like it.
Long-time lurker/fan here.
FWIW, there’s no way I’m going to continually browse individual threads looking for rare nuggets of wisdom. Please return to the flat file format.
Nested comments? Now my mobile phone browser cannot fit everything in a neat column. Have to scroll sideways as well. Too bad, the old version was much better for me.
Nested comments are good for relatively trivial responses to a particular post (“thanks for the link,” etc.), and for back-and-forth on specific issues.
OTOH, as others have said, it becomes impossible to find the new posts when you come back to a thread, and that is a serious disadvantage when the threads are long (as they generally seem to be here).
Possible solution: Keep the nested threads for the advantages, but add a bright icon highlighting new posts since last visit. Can WordPress do that?
/Mr Lynn
PS OT: Don’t see an address to send feedback or tips. E.g., in case you missed it: Expensive NASA satellite to measure CO2 ‘sinks’ lost on launch: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=av6QSiI5BuOI&refer=us
Head’s up gang:
http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/gore-pulls-slide-of-disaster-trends/
Gore has had his pants pulled down and was caught.
Anthony,
After a bit of working with the WUWT site since the nested changes were implemented, I must vote with the side that says “please, change it back.”
Nested comments are, perhaps, a good feature for a small number of comments, but that is rarely the case on WUWT these days.
It is very difficult (and time consuming) to go through and look for new comments. It was so much simpler and faster with linear comments.
As just one example, some kind soul (I believe it was Graeme) posed a question to me in a comment on “The Madness is About to Begin.” I have been trying to follow that post and its comments, but had missed that question for a couple of days. I did submit my answer in a comment when I found the question.
However, the quality of the postings is outstanding as usual, and the comments I do manage to read are fascinating. Some comments are LOL funny! and some are serious and make one pause and think.
You are doing a yeoman’s work with WUWT, and for that you are to be commended. This is the way the internet ought to be (with linear comments, IMHO).
Best regards,
Roger Sowell
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