Rough drafts for a “Commentariat” Suite
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In-Reply-To and Infinite Replies
Over at OT, I have added a variation on automatic “In Reply To” commenting links, which I believe may once have been more common, and which some users find helpful in sorting out long discussions, especially in nested comment threads…
Posted in notes, Web Design, WordPress Plug-Ins Tagged with: Commenting, Ordinary Times, Snippets, Wordpress
OT Site Dev Sitrep
It’s OK to say “Heidegger” and “Wittgenstein” and to include up to three links in the body of your comments; I’m going to do a fingers-crossed changeover on the comment subscriptions system soon; you can now use either of two contact forms, general/editorial and support, available via the main menu under “Contact”; expect more tweaking as we work on bigger changes.
Posted in Developing Ordinary Times, Off the Cuff, Ordinary Times, The League Tagged with: Development, meta, Wordpress
For your consideration and especially your comments…
Six simple changes to commenting format and functionality, of which five, with your cooperation (and if all goes as expected), can be demonstrated, tested, and assessed on this post’s comment thread. The sixth has already been implemented site-wide
Now Testing Factlink Plug-In
Factlink is a plug-in, also available as a browser add-on, that was mentioned in a discussion of “Medium-Style Commenting” that I happen to follow. I’ve installed and activated the plug-in for WordPress here, though I’m unsure about keeping it, for…
The Decline of Political-Cultural Blogging in One Page
The first thing to note about OT’s blogroll is that, though it has been moved off the blog’s front page and sidebars, it still occupies a prominent link-position in the main menu. The second thing to note about it is that it isn’t: The blogroll page’s blogroll is missing.
Last Comment on Comments (Read The Comments 3)
The non-trolling or serious response to unsalvageably obnoxious comments sections is to support responsible sites: Not “Don’t read the comments!” but “Read and comment where commenting is taken seriously!” – or, for those of us who operate our own sites, “Take commenting seriously!”
They also blog who only sit and comment… (Commentariat 2)
Principal coding work on a suite of “commentariat” functions is complete. The result consists of three interconnected pages, of which one, “State of the Discussion” (SoD), is available from a main menu link, while the other two, “Comments This Thread”…