Friday, February 27, 2009
Attention regular commenters: What do you think of the format change?
Esteemed semi-regular commenter Simon Kenton suggested that we reformat the comment template to put the name of the commenter at the top of the comment rather than the bottom. It seemed like a worthy experiment, so I have made the revision. Consider it provisional until the assembled TigerHawk community has, well, commented. What say you? Shall your names go at the top of the post, the bottom, or you do not care?
UPDATE: So, now I have moved the little "delete" tag (which, I believe, you can use only with regard to your own comments) to the end of the comment and put a colon after the date and time tag so that you can see more clearly that the comment follows, rather than precedes, the name. What say you?
18 Comments:
By 
, at
Fri Feb 27, 09:47:00 PM:
Name at the top is perhaps better than at the bottom. Easier to skip past the known trolls if the name is posted at the top. What I really wish is that bloggers would come up with standardized locations for not only the names of the commenters but for the link back to the home page and the 'email me' link as well. It is always frustrating to follow a link to a new blogger's post and then engage in an Easter Egg hunt to find his home page link.
By 
Simon Kenton, at
Fri Feb 27, 10:16:00 PM:
Feeblemind nails the reason for my request. Thank you for doing this.
By Dan Kauffman, at
Sat Feb 28, 12:34:00 AM:
Personally I think I DESERVE to be at the top ;-)
By D.E. Cloutier, at
Sat Feb 28, 12:41:00 AM:
Ah, change. Just like Obama.
I hate Web sites that move stuff around all the time. In fact, I stop using them. Make your decision. Stick to it.
By , at
Sat Feb 28, 02:14:00 AM:
Despite what BRAT OBAMA has said there is going to be absolutly no change at all how the goverment runs its going to remain the same as usial only in this case more pork from the demacratic porkers
By Donna B., at
Sat Feb 28, 02:54:00 AM:
Whatever you did, keep it because I can now get to the comment box without jumping through hoops. I have no idea what was wrong before and am probably the only one ever experiencing the problem.
Of course, this may be a bad thing, because I may comment more often now.
By Noumenon, at
Sat Feb 28, 03:04:00 AM:
Commenter name at the front is the way LiveJournal does it, so I say it makes sense.
You can make it a little clearer with punctuation. Is the line
By Blogger Donna B., at Sat Feb 28, 02:54:00 AM
before or after Donna B.'s post? Hard to tell. But
--By Blogger Donna B., at Sat Feb 28, 02:54:00 AM
is definitely after her post, and
By Blogger Donna B., at Sat Feb 28, 02:54:00 AM:
or
By Blogger Donna B., at Sat Feb 28, 02:54:00 AM...
are definitely before. (In the posting box window, the ellipses are already used. In the main window, I see each post followed by a little orange underline that says "Delete this post" when I hover over it. I didn't experiment with clicking it but I will post again after this post if anyone wants to try it.
By Noumenon, at
Sat Feb 28, 03:05:00 AM:
Go ahead, see if the little underline lets you delete somebody's post who isn't you. I see it after everyone's post.
deleteme
By Noumenon, at
Sat Feb 28, 03:08:00 AM:
Oh, I agree with Simon and believe it is standard for the main banner at the top of a page (where it says "TigerHawk") to be a link to the main page. I instinctively go to click there when I read a post on a new blog and want to read more like it.
By , at
Sat Feb 28, 05:16:00 AM:
I prefer the name at the top.
JC
By , at
Sat Feb 28, 08:32:00 AM:
I do recall several times when a comment was wrongly attributed to a commenter, due to the assumption that the commenter's name came before the comment. So, this change should stop that problem.
Regarding people assuming that the old way of name at the bottom continues, that is another issue. Change we can believe in..
By , at
Sat Feb 28, 09:11:00 AM:
This topic received more comments than 12 of the last 20 topics.
By BrendaK, at
Sat Feb 28, 09:28:00 AM:
This topic received more comments than 12 of the last 20 topics.
Well, at least TH didn't bring up the Over-the-roll v. Under-the-roll Toilet Paper debate.
People go nuts over that one.
I like the new format, BTW.
By Dawnfire82, at
Sat Feb 28, 10:05:00 AM:
Just be prepared for confusion as people respond to the wrong commenters.
By TigerHawk, at
Sat Feb 28, 10:07:00 AM:
Just be prepared for confusion as people respond to the wrong commenters.
I will gird my loins.
By Elise, at
Sat Feb 28, 02:35:00 PM:
The name at the bottom seems more logical to me since that's how we sign letters (I'm very retro) and right now the name at the top is confusing since I'm used to seeing it at the bottom. I'll adjust but I wish there was some way to put a dashed line at the end of a comment. That would make it clearer that the name from the top goes with the comment.
I haven't tried clicking on that little dash at the end of the comments but the link does say it's a delete comment function. Has anyone tested this?
By Noumenon, at
Sun Mar 01, 09:29:00 AM:
I tried deleting TigerHawk's comment about girding his loins, as a favor to everyone else, and it took me to Gmail's login screen. But signing in just reloaded the login page as though I'd logged in and right back out. In short, it didn't work.
My SiL's blogspot blog puts a little icon at the start of each post so each comment looks indented, and the date stamp at the end. link
By Elise, at
Sun Mar 01, 12:48:00 PM:
Noumenon, my blogspot blog does the same as your SIL's. In fact, it looks just like TH's comment screen does when I post a comment as opposed to just reading them: icon; commenter name followed by "said..."; then the comment; then date/time stamp; then solid separation line. That's very easy to follow comment-wise but TH's setup where the comment can be read on the same full-screen with the post advantages also.
