Suggestion: Comments
TappedOut forum
Posted on Oct. 6, 2010, 2:33 a.m. by NecroBane
Was noticing the lack of options on comments would be appreciated especially a function to delete your comments. Also noticed there aren;t preview buttons when creating a thread. Just humble suggestions. :)
zerotimestatechamp says... #3
What about editing then? If someone edited a comment you could make a place to click to see the original text of their comment.
October 7, 2010 1:20 p.m.
Letting a person see the original text of an edited comment could get complex. On a forum I used to be super active on there would be an editing option. What everyone would do though when they edited their post would be to type "EDIT:" and the bottom and correct what they wanted to correct. Other than that it was used all the time for misspelling and formatting issues (which would be great in case someone accidentally gets the name of a card wrong and want to fix it).
I agree that deleting could get complicated to follow in a thread, but if people just denoted what they edited and didn't change the body of the post except spelling and formatting it would work very nicely.
October 7, 2010 1:23 p.m.
Yes, editting wouuld be a better alternative, and it allows threads to continue to be followed without too much confusion.
October 8, 2010 6:59 a.m.
I'm adding my voice and Am in agreement for editing comments.
I understand that on one side original comments being maintained should be important.
But for spelling mistakes and misdirection it would be a nice way to tidy comments up.
My suggestion is this: an option to edit your comment so that it is appended to the original comment. So you can then point out the mistake. Thus keeping the original comment and not disrupting or confusing the flow of the thread.
Would this be feasible? Any thoughts?
October 8, 2010 8:24 a.m.
I think I'll just make a time limit of 5 minutes to edit the comment however you want.
yeaGO says... #2
Preview for thread -- yea, this should be done.
Deleting -- I've never been big on this. Firstly, the comment already emails to whoever is subscribed. Secondly if people delete/change their comments it can make the discussion kinda hard to follow.
October 6, 2010 11:27 a.m.