Open Call: BindleSnitch Housekeeping Suggestions and Requests
Re conversational comment threads:
Please streamline or simplify the “comment” thread or comment stream in such a manner as to ensure the continuity of the sequence of comments and replies.
Too often, a ‘reply’ will precede the ‘comment’ that is being addressed…
The comments and replies should read like a conversation or dialogue.
As it is, the threads often read like a hodgepodge of disjointed statements…
If you have any other housekeeping suggestions or requests make them here or in a separate post…
Jonathan Wolfman
10/07/2019 @ 10:50 am
All true.
I’d want to know, too a) what plans are underway to expand the active reader-writer membership?
b) what, precisely, is measured by the dashboard? I have written to owners
several times about this and while they have responded to other queries,
they have not replied to this question.
Whatever it measures, day-to-day, the trend-lines are consistently down and
I’d do what I can to get this site moving consistently upward if I knew what ideas
management had.
koshersalaami
10/07/2019 @ 11:39 am
If you want continuous conversations, never hit Reply, just post a new comment. Then they’ll be sequential. Just do what we used to do and say in the comment what you’re answering
Ron Powell
10/07/2019 @ 11:47 pm
It appears that clicking on ‘reply’ causes the comment to come directly behind, or after, the comment you are addressing…
Ron Powell
10/07/2019 @ 12:45 pm
If what you say is true, why doesn’t your comment follow Jon’s?
And, why doesn’t my comment follow yours?
Jonna Connelly
10/07/2019 @ 7:16 pm
When I click the “reply” box next to your comment, mine should line up after yours. This is a test.
Jonna Connelly
10/07/2019 @ 7:16 pm
It did. And this should follow my first comment.
Jonna Connelly
10/07/2019 @ 7:18 pm
But if I just comment in the comment box, it will come before the last one posted. I asked Milner about this in the beginning and he said it’s the standard way to do it now – showing comments newest first.
Ron Powell
10/07/2019 @ 11:43 pm
The new standard may work for nonconversational threads, but it destroys conversation and conversational continuity…
Another reason to be wary of social media which clearly is not an advantageous approach to interpersonal communication…
Jonna Connelly
10/08/2019 @ 5:28 pm
It seems if it’s maintaining a conversation that’s your goal, you want to reply using the reply box alongside the comment you’re replying to. After that, it should fall into chronological line. Just don’t use the comment box at the bottom unless you’re starting something new.