To avoid misunderstandings…
Posted by Mark on November 20th, 2009
I feel I should throw out a timely reminder about the comments system on the forum because I fear that there may be some confusion over how it works. We also altered this only last month meaning that not everyone will have read and understood the minutes… frankly I doubt anyone understood the live version so what hope from the minutes?!
Ok, here’s my attempt at a plain English description of how comments work.
If you put up a post on the site, you will receive an email whenever anyone leaves a comment on that post, even yourself! Those messages are now (as of last month) more friendly and don’t refer to having to ‘approve’ comments etc.
If you leave a comment on a post, you will receive an email should anyone reply to your comment.
Now, comments can be left as a ‘comment to the post’ or as a ‘reply to a comment on a post’. The latter is achieved by using one of the ‘reply to Bob’ links.
Each reply to a comment is indented and thus a cascading conversation can be built with all participants receiving a notification of each new reply.
What should be avoided is leaving a comment which (as it reads) is a reply as an existing comment as a normal comment on the post because only the post’s author will be informed and that’s unlikely to be what was intended.
Equally, the only way to contact all those who received the post (e.g. to announce something) is to post again – an issue to weigh up there… leave a comment and hope people visit the post and read it or is it too important to chance in which case a new post it’ll have to be!
Not perfect I know and I have plans… in time! But I felt it worth explaining so everyone understands who is and who isn’t going to be told about the existence of your comments when you leave them.
Cheers
Mark
(Webmaster)
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