{"id":19830,"date":"2011-01-12T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=19830"},"modified":"2011-01-12T09:00:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T16:00:56","slug":"flat-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/12\/flat-comments.html","title":{"rendered":"Flat comments"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>In the aftermath of the big gun control post commentfest<\/a>, I’ve changed the configuration at DDtB to use flat instead of threaded comments. I found (a) it too easy for new comments to go unseen if they were made in reply to something in the middle of a post, (b) the REPLY link was going away after you got in a few levels, which caused problems, and (c) I have a larger-print narrow-column format that didn’t lend itself well to that kind of threading.<\/p>\n

This has really not been a problem before — most of the conversations here have been single-threaded or fairly linear. \u00a0But this case showed a problem. \u00a0So now all comments will go in sequentially.<\/p>\n

If you are commenting on a post here and it might not be obvious to whom you are responding, the standard Internet protocol for such things is mentioning the poster name with an @ in front if it, like so: “@BD: Are you out of your freaking gourd?” I also number my comments; you can also reference back to comments that way.<\/p>\n

Again, I don’t see a huge amount of this kind of thing coming up — we don’t have that many lengthy and complex discussions here. But in case we do, I think this will work a bit better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the aftermath of the big gun control post commentfest, I’ve changed the configuration at DDtB to use flat instead of threaded comments. I found (a) it too easy for new comments to go unseen if they were made in reply to something in the middle of a post, (b) the REPLY link was going … Continue reading “Flat comments”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogging-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/kennedy_nixon_debate_1960.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14971,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/06\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-06-june-2009.html","url_meta":{"origin":19830,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 06 June 2009","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 6-Jun-09 6:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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