As promised we are making improvements to this blogs comment system. While this happening comments might be closed and you might see some other different changes as well. I’ll update this post as we go.
List Of Changes
Voting. You can now upvote and downvote comments. Please please please be generous with your upvotes and use the downvote sparingly. I want this to be a positive community. I’ve removed comment voting. I don’t think it actually adds much value to the site and I want to keep things positive rather than people worrying about upvotes/downvotes. It also reduces a bit of clutter.- User profiles. If you click the little i button next to the comments number it will bring up that a profile for the user that left that comment. This will show things like how many comments they have made, how many upvotes/downvotes they have received, recent comments etc. I am hoping that people will use this information when determine what referral link to use to promote people leaving quality comments rather than just referral links.
- Sort features. You can now sort comments, by default they are sorted by oldest. You can also sort by newest and most voted now.
- Notifications. We’ve changed the notification system slightly, this will make changing your notifications preferences easier. You can opt to receive an e-mail whenever a new comment is added, or when somebody replies to one of your comments. Unfortunately this means that any old notifications you’ve set up will no longer work.
- Editing. You can edit your comment for 15 minutes after it has been made. We can change this time period, but I don’t want to make it too long to prevent spam.
- Comment search. You can now search the comments of a specific post. This should be very useful for datapoint posts such as ‘bank accounts that can be funded with a credit card‘ or ‘list of methods that count as a direct deposit‘ .
- Tag users/posts. If you want to tag a specific person or comment you can do so.
Comment widget. You can now see the most voted comments, active comment threads, most commented posts & recent comments. I know this looks awful, but it will get a redesign soon. Removed this for now
