clean comments...

[swedeheart]

ABers and Eds, take a look at the site bibblebub posted a link to, here: http://www.theanswerb...s/Question945995.html

What a neat and tidy system for commenting on somebody else's comment! It's the "cleanest" design I've ever seen, for that purpose. Anyone else like it? Would it suit AB?

[bibblebub]

It's wonderful but please ignore any cats or cat references that you might see along the way.

[boxtops]

I've gone into a loop with the links - is that the idea?

[swedeheart]

Yes boxtops it's sort of a late night budget amusement park ha ha ha... erm, no, that wasn't really the idea:)

[Answerprancer]

yeaargh, my brain's capsizing !

[AB Editor]

Yep, I like Disqus it is a really good commenting tool for blogs. Also, if you use gravatar there is a way to make all your disqus posts appear with your gravatar avatar!

It also works nicely with twitter and facebook.

It is very clean, but it is for commenting on a single topic with various different threads.You can see how the replies indent and break up the different "threads" of conversation - I think implementing a similar "reply" system would make some feel they're being ignored, or equally, obliged to give everyone the same amount of attention.

I think being able to reference one another might be a good idea, for example with the twitter-standard @username. What do you think it is that makes it so "clean"?

All the best,

Spare Ed

[swedeheart]

Hi Spare and hi again boxtops and Answerprancer. I should have been more specific last night but it was late - we're one hour ahead of you here in Sweden. Spare I wasn't so much thinking of AB subscribing to Disqus and it's not the indentations I'm after - I see your point about those - no it's the little window that opens up to display the comment being referenced, for immediate understanding of what the comment-to-the-comment is all about, with no copy-and-paste cluttering of the thread and no scrolling in endless search of the source. (Hope that gets you out of the loop boxtops:) and de-capsizes your brain Answerprancer:)