What is Digg?919 Comments
- TimmyGUNZ, on 01/16/2008, -37/+2120Please let us change our mind on deciding to digg up or down a comment. Sometimes I accidentally digg someone down when I meant to do otherwise and then there's nothing I can do about it.
- TimmyGUNZ, on 01/16/2008, -39/+1120Can you please change the color which highlights our own posts to something that stands out more? Perhaps orange?
- philovivero, on 01/16/2008, -25/+810I only ever view comments in order of ratings, best to worst. It'd be nice to be able to see the parent or children of a particularly high-rated comment. I'm rarely interested in comment threads unless the parent was particularly insightful or interesting, but in those cases, I'm very interested, and switching view type then searching for the comment is burdensome.
- xcheats, on 01/16/2008, -10/+777Ability to delete your comment within the given editing period.
- lordtyros, on 01/16/2008, -9/+5601. Please enable a reddit style "Someone's replied to your comment" button at the top of the digg page.
2. Allow users to set in their preferences the number of comments that should be loaded at a time. When I have to click to the next page, I usually don't.
3. Implement some kind of text formatting ability. I'd like to be able to create a hyperlink or a bulleted list. When people try, they usually get a horrible mess with far too many or too few spaces or an incorrect link. - HeyChinaski, on 01/16/2008, -6/+552There is a bug with URLs. Not sure if you're fixing (or fixed) this. If you submit a long URL in a comment Digg truncates the URL displayed but maintains the actual href. If I click to edit the comment the truncated URL is converted back to plain text and leads to a dead link.
- fuzed, on 01/16/2008, -17/+510Dugg for involving your community in the process of trying to make Digg a better place. Way to go Kevin and Co. Now I know why I keep coming back! The new changes look really good, especially being able to see just your own comments.
- dburka, on 01/16/2008, -4/+395Your own posts will be highlighted yellow (the whole comment, not just the header) so they'll be really easy to pick out. We're also adding the 'My Comments' link which lets you just see your own comments in context. It should be super useful. Your friends' comments will be highlighted green as well to make them easier to pick out.
- strictnein, on 01/16/2008, -13/+395And I wish that when you bury a comment it would be great if the comments and all of them after it didn't disappear.
- 31213121, on 01/16/2008, -3/+374they still forgot the most important one: Links are almost always broken. If one adds a . , ) or something else to the end of a link, it'll be broken (example: http://digg.com).
Btw, here's the guy who first posted about this a June the 25th of 2007....: http://coolblog.profit42.com/2007/06/25/the-most-i ... - aaronmcdonald, on 01/16/2008, -13/+361it's so great to be a part of a site where feedback actually gets noted and put into action! I think the new changes are great and I think its exactly what people want, nothing fancy just clean and simple!
- norbiu, on 01/16/2008, -9/+341When I click "see comment" in my profile the comments are descending like this:
comment 1
- reply 2
- reply 1
instead of
comment 1
- reply 1
- reply 2
also ... make the textarea a bit bigger. or add a button to make it bigger, like in movable type.
also(2) ... when I click submit comment there are extra p tags in there, which disappear once the comment edit count hits 0. - Klarth, on 01/16/2008, -2/+326Show the scores for our comments in our profiles. I don't like having to click back to the story I commented on to check how deeply I've been buried.
- TimmyGUNZ, on 01/16/2008, -11/+287One last suggestion from me...
I don't like that if I reply to a comment that I dugg down, it's extra hard to keep track of. Hopefully the new changes you outlined to my reply above fix this. - CTK14A, on 01/16/2008, -15/+281What can be done to make more people read my comments? I am a shameless comment whore and require the constant approval of strangers.
- p5ych0, on 01/16/2008, -7/+248How about adding how many diggs and burys each comment has, like this greasemonkey script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/11578
- t3rmv3locity, on 01/16/2008, -1/+168Definitely do not make digging a comment 2 clicks though...I would probably stop digging comments all together if that happened
- carbonetc, on 01/16/2008, -18/+182Adding a few more pixels between the two buttons might help with the accidental misclicks too. They're small targets.
- dburka, on 01/16/2008, -2/+166Good point. We're trying to fix that too. Kevin can only talk about so many things in a video!
- magicmarc, on 01/17/2008, -7/+164Whoops, meant to digg you up there, sorry about that.
- SanTe, on 01/16/2008, -2/+153The comments system currently adds an extra carriage return when using the Enter key to separate paragraphs. You have to edit your comment to delete the extra return. Very annoying. This happened after the last major update.
- inactive, on 01/16/2008, -6/+154Some comments disappear completely, which in turn wipes out all of the comments nested below it. I've noticed that sometimes happens when someone deletes their account, but I'm not sure if there are other reasons for it occurring. It would be nice if that was fixed.
- arcooke, on 01/17/2008, -48/+193Finally.. somewhere to talk about my suggestion.
I think the entire thumbs up / thumbs down idea needs to be reexamined. I'm so tired of being silenced by people because I voice an opinion they don't agree with. I'm tired of being buried into oblivion for asking a simple question. I'm tired watching legitimate comments get stuck on the "bury train". When people see a comment with a negative rating, they continue to bury it (after all, +1 isn't going to affect -20). Let me make this abundantly clear: this is the reason I'm just about ready to stop using the comment section entirely. I'm tired of being censored.
Comments should be rated much like stories can be buried. Options to rate a comment should include things like "I agree", "I disagree", "User is being a troll", "Spam post", etc and can be represented as icons with descriptions in the alt tags (to save space). Users posts should not disappear just because someone doesn't like it. Spam should disappear after reaching a certain threshold. Trolling should disappear. The ratings received by other members should be visible in the posts (for example, Bob123's comment says 4 people agreed, 16 people disagreed).
Lastly, I think a user should only be able to see the ratings of a comment AFTER they have rated it (of it is their own comment). This would put an end to the comment system bury bandwagon problem. Users would rate the comments how they think they should be rated, they wouldn't just push "I disagree" because they see everyone else disagrees.
If something doesn't get resolved about this soon, I'm done with this place. - IDIGGFREELY, on 01/16/2008, -11/+149I'd definitely like to see this implemented as well. Perhaps comments could be edited even past the time threshold by only allowing an ADDITION to the comment rather than complete editing powers.
- rabidmonkey1, on 01/16/2008, -4/+132BLAST YOU MR. BABYMAN!!!!
Your internet fame even spreads into Digg tech demo videos!!!!
*shakes fist* - slicerace, on 01/16/2008, -10/+136Can we have an option where it displays ALL comments? I absolutely detest the "Show comments xxx through nnn" -- when there are so many comments, if I come back to a page, I have to keep clicking and scrolling again just to get to the end. I tried looking for an option in my settings, but I had no luck. Sadface.
- Shananra, on 01/16/2008, -3/+119That could get messy, replying to yourself is almost always sufficient. I would like the chance to delete the comment within the two minute window, however.
- coredump0x01, on 01/16/2008, -2/+118I notice if I make a comment and then reload the page while the edit timer is still running, the comment vanishes. Also, there should be a way to delete comments (at least within a set time span similar to the edit timer).
- betterth, on 01/16/2008, -7/+112Ahh, a Vista user I see. =P
- SonicRush, on 01/16/2008, -5/+109Just hit reply to the first commenter. Everybody else does it.
- strictnein, on 01/16/2008, -9/+111You mean, there wasn't a bug already filed for that? Do digg's employees use digg?
- JohnM5, on 01/16/2008, -1/+99I think it would be better if they would just let us click on the other thumb.
So if I accidentally dugg them up, it would gray out that button but leave the red digg down button still there so you can change your mind. - dvsbastard, on 01/16/2008, -4/+102Not extremely important, but it would be nice to see how many diggs and buries a comment has recieved (not just the total as is currently displayed)... You could possibly implement it as a tooltip style popup when hovering over the Digg / Bury buttons...
- xaaronreevesx, on 01/16/2008, -2/+96I think it would be great if when you look at you or your friends comment history, you could see if the comments they posted had x number of diggs.
- themastersb, on 01/17/2008, -4/+95My browser always hangs with the current comment system. I can hardly wait for the new one.
- dburka, on 01/16/2008, -3/+91I think a lot of people forget about the problems with the old comment system. We didn't go to replace the system just to make something new and shiny... we replaced it because it was deeply flawed.
For one, the page load on very active pages was ridiculous -- sometimes you'd load over 600kb of HTML which would kill a lot of browsers. Secondly, people abused the tree structure and posted unrelated comments high on the page just to get noticed, which was annoying and especially confusing to less expert users. If you'll even remember, the old comment system didn't even let you respond in context in a comment thread, which I would consider a pretty major user experience flaw.
In short, I think it's a golden past argument to say 'just go back'. - aussieNickuss, on 01/16/2008, -1/+86I would like a discard button also (in the editing time). If you hit the submit button and then realize you have replied to the wrong thread, the only way around it is to admit your mistake, or to enter a blank character....either way, your comment will still show.
- spyrochaete, on 01/17/2008, -7/+90I personally like the thumbs up/down system as it is. I disabled the filter so that I can see even negative-scored comments so I just find it interesting to see how different opinions are rated. It's only censorship if you enable the censorship filters.
- dracostimpy, on 01/17/2008, -9/+89Can't think of the name of it offhand, but I have a Firefox add-on that shows the total count of thumbs up/down for each comment in separate red/green boxes just to the left of the thumb icons. I kinda like that because you can see that +2 really means "+10 and -9" instead of "only 1 person bothered to read/enjoy your comment besides yourself". Nice to know you're getting feedback instead of just being ignored.
- Nossie, on 01/17/2008, -8/+82It would be nice if I could really block people... religious fanatics, political fanatics, console fanboys ... you name it
Actually, you could take a note of who was blocked by the most people and have a hall of shame :P A karma system might also give people second thoughts about 'anonymous' idiocy without repercussions too. Digg needs to allow the user to be the aggregator and editor.. I'd say half of diggs problems are the idiots that use it and not the system itself. (yes I am an 'idiot that uses it' but OTOH i'm not saying everyone on digg is an idiot)
The new system does look far better though, should fix some of my most frustrating annoyances -- thumbs up - inactive, on 01/16/2008, -0/+72You guys should do more videos like this to talk to the community. I commend your efforts in this attempt at communication. Good work.
- stergeron, on 01/16/2008, -20/+90The biggest thing is we should be able to change a thumbs up or thumbs down...I agree with TimmyGunz. I've defiintely had a few misclicks from time to time.
- sundancekid503, on 01/16/2008, -1/+69I second that, it's kind of weird that the comments don't load in chronological order when you're viewing a subset.
- jaxzin, on 01/17/2008, -1/+68Currently the "sort by date (+10 or higher)" option only filters on the top-level of comments. Nested comments that have more than 10 diggs but a parent/grandparent with less than 10 are hidden. Can you make this a global filter so I see all comments with 10 or more diggs at any nested level?
- SkippyDoorknob, on 01/17/2008, -0/+64I've also had a similar problem posting long URLs and then editing the comment. The URL is intially abbreviated (like you see in the parent comment) with ... at the end. But if you then edit that comment, the real full URL is lost and now it saves the abbreviated form as the actual URL. Obviously this breaks the link.
- dburka, on 01/16/2008, -0/+62We wanted to get this out in front of you guys at an early stage so we have time to adapt to your feedback. Taking time to code it just to demo it would have made this process even slower.
- jlmillstein, on 01/17/2008, -3/+64Allow people to change their mind about digging someone up or down. I accidently digg a really stupid comment up sometimes.
- snapuswipe, on 01/16/2008, -1/+58I would really like to see number 1 implemented, just to give it more support
- dburka, on 01/16/2008, -0/+57I think the "My Comments" option will really help with that. Currently, it's generally difficult to find your own comments unless they're in the first branch of the comment tree. You need to remember the parent and then scroll down, find it, click the open link, and hunt down your comment. Being able to see all of your comments with the context of the immediate comment thread around it should be useful I hope.
- sockpuppets, on 01/17/2008, -2/+57I'd like a button to filter members that are only made of socks or sock-like material, please.
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