Just letting everybody know that we have done an overhaul to the comment system. It may look different to before and you may notice new features and possibly some old features missing. If there is something missing (or added) that you don’t like please let us know in the comments below. This new system should hopefully allow for users to soon be able to create their own login to the site, eventually referral threads will be moved so that only users with an account can share their link to help limit referral abuse.
Features that will be added/removed:
Gray background showing again after a few commentsLoad more comment button not at the bottom of comments- Hide blank avatars
Remove fade out on comment id & user profile so that both are permanently displayedFix taggingPost title in email notificationsUpvoting is currently turned off, will be turned back on once unlimited upvoting has been fixedComments going off the screen will be fixed- Adding gray space between each comment to differentiate it
Comment text background changed from gray to white
I submitted a comment elsewhere with a search term in the search box so I couldn’t see the result of my submission. If it didn’t show after reloading the page, does that mean it probably went to spam?
Or moderation.
In my experience, a comment that goes to moderation still stays visible to the poster with a moderation indicator, whereas a spam comment gets replaced with a spam placeholder and vanishes.
If you refresh the page comments under moderation will disappear.
When my comment has an orange exclamation mark next to it, is it under moderation? I tested this in a new session without entering my email and I still see it after reloading the page in the same browser session.
I guess it disappears after a few minutes or something. Not sure how consistent the behavior is. E.g. sometimes I edit a comment and it still shows the original version for a while when I refresh the page, but it shows the edited version immediately in a different browser session.
Yes orange exclamation mark means under moderation. It’s possibly the cache didn’t update when you reloaded it the first time
The orange “!” is supposed to mean that it went to moderation. However, I’ve had situations where many comments in a row of mine had the “!” but they all ended up in Spam and I had to ask
William Charles to pull them out.
However, recently I figured out a way to tell if your comment went to moderation or Spam. After seeing the orange “!”, click on the “i” to the right of your name.
Check the time next to “Last Activity:”. If the time matches the time in that comment, it means that your comment went to moderation. If it shows an earlier time, your comment likely went to Spam and will not ever get posted unless you email Will.
Cool, thanks for pointing that out
Eric 🔗
Now to play around with the editing behavior…
Testing some stuff.
For anyone still subscribed to this post, I have some important info in my below comment that could be of interest to some of you regarding tagging.
#1937691
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How do I create an account for referrals? test
DoC, I noticed today that a Comment search for a user’s name now shows zero results (other than comments that include that user’s typed-out name). I was searching for my own user name so that I could quickly find my old posts in this post: https://www.doctorofcredit.com/truist-300-checking-bonus-al-ar-ga-fl-in-ky-md-ms-nc-nj-oh-pa-sc-tn-tx-va-wv-or-dc/
The search results no longer includes user names.
Not sure if this is by error or by design.
You can still search by name, in the search box click the three lines next to it and select ‘author’ and it’ll show up.
Love it! I had missed that trick. Thank you so much for the clarification.
Love the site… DoC is the best!
Thanks for the kind words
Is it possible to delete comment?
Test
testing
test comment