Wowhead: New Commenting System

posted 2011/12/02 at 7:39 AM by Koper

Regarding Feedback & ChangesonetwoThings we changed

Your reputation history will no longer have broken links

You can now see a list of your replies on your user page: http://www.wowhead.com/user=Koper#replies

You can now always delete instantly your own comments. If the comments are deleted by the OP, rather than by the vote process, the comment will be visible only to the OP and moderators -- high reputation users will not be able to see it.

You can now also instantly undelete your own comments if you deleted them yourself. If deleted by a moderator, or by the vote process, you can still vote to undelete.

Comments are now green if they have a rating of +10.

Added two new sorting options (newest first and oldest first)

The sorting algorithm you choose will stick until you choose another

Added the patch along with the date in replies

UI/design improvements for replies

Added downvoting to replies

Added a way to report replies to moderators

Things that are planned

A way to edit replies

Things that we are considering

A feature for moderators to convert comments to replies and vice-versa

Things that will not change

The new design for the vote arrows

The removal of reputation for casting votes

Deleted comments being at the bottom

Original Blog Post

The default sorting order is by date which means that the first comment posted will always be at the top, even if it's not the best one.

You can reply to a comment with another full blown-out comment, with the reply always shown below the parent comment. This functionality has been abused by replying to the first comment on the page with an unrelated comment in order to have the "second place" slot.

The upvote/downvote controls are very small, not immediately visible to new users and somewhat awkward to use. The comment rating number has the same problem.

new commenting systemRating changescomments are always ordered by ratingmaking deleted comments always appear at the bottomNew feature: Comment RepliesWe do not want them to be comments themselves

They can't be longer than 600 characters.

They can't have line breaks.

They can only use a subset of BBCode: bold, italics, underline plus links.

They can be upvoted, but not downvoted.

They are not considered "comments" by the system, so they don't give reputation, achievements, etc.

You must have at least 150 reputation before being able to use this feature.

Only up to 5 replies per comment are shown by default. A link can then be clicked to show more.

Other changes

Comments with negative rating are no longer automatically purged. They will appear at the bottom of course, but they will still be there to be improved or deleted by the OP.

When you cast a vote on a comment you will no longer receive +1 reputation. This was decided because many users were abusing the voting feature mindlessly voting (and quite often DOWNvoting) comments in order to gain reputation, regardless of the merits of the comment itself.

When you downvote a comment you are invited to leave a reply explaining why.

Upvoting now requires 125 reputation and downvoting requires 250 reputation. Before, both required 150.

New comments now start with a rating of 0 rather than 1. This change is retroactive (all existing comments lost 1 rating).

Comments with high rating are no longer green.

Moderators can now make a comment "STICKY" which makes it appear on top and colors it green.

Votes cast by moderators are now worth as much as normal user votes. Before, they were worth 5 points with an option to cast a +/- 25 "super vote". This change is retroactive.

You are now always able to see your own deleted comments, regardless of reputation.

The "Default comment sort" option has been removed from the user's settings page; you can change it to "Date" on a page per page basis, but you can no longer change it for all pages.

The "Hide deleted comments" option has been removed as well. Since now deleted comments are always at the bottom they should no longer be in the way.

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Comment by Sas148Sorry to necro this, but I don't have the vote options even if I have enough rep. Do I need to activate something? For info I'm using firefox.

Thanks.Thunder BluffComment by ZuizgondOK, thanks for the reply.Comment by WOWMATAUnfortunately I've downgraded a comment by accident and I can't change what I've done?Comment by Sas148Unfortunately I've downgraded a comment by accident and I can't change what I've done?

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