Those who frequently make or read comments on Sankaku Complex may be interested to learn of two new additions to the site’s commenting functionality, in the form of comment editing and deletion, and an expansion of the comment rating system to include comprehensive rankings and statistics.
Firstly, logged in users who comment can now edit their own posts by way of the “Edit” link in the comment in question, though a time limit applies as this is not intended as a way for users to revise the content of their statements after the fact, but rather as a way for them to correct errors and omissions.
Similarly, comment deletion is now possible from the same area, though with a very short time limit to limit the potential for abuse.
Please note that there are a variety of reasons a comment may not display immediately – it is unlikely to be helpful to repeatedly repost the same comment in these cases. Usually, it will only be delayed somewhat, although in cases where a time-out occurs a genuine error is more likely.
Secondly, anyone interested in seeing the best and worst comments, the most active voters and the most highly or lowly rated commenters, can see this information and more on the new comment rating statistics page, updated hourly. There is a link at the base of the comments to this page.
This is intended as a prelude to more extensive karmic functionality later, but even now this serves as an interesting method of highlighting comments of interest.
As always, comments or suggestions on these systems are welcomed.
[b]Top Rated Users
This Month
• X-sama[/b] has [b]Y plus[/b] and [b]Z minus[/b] votes
Wait. Does this mean that X-sama has voted Y plus votes, or Y plus votes voted [i]towards[/i] X-sama?
I would like to suggest restoring the commentator’s user profile page link (like SanCom used to)…
– [b]Comment by [/b](url=http://www.sankakucomplex.com/forums/profile.php?id=*)[b]X-sama[/b](/url)
… in place of the current link.
– [b]Comment by [/b](url=
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/11/28/sankaku-complex-comment-editing-statistics/?cid=*)%5Bb%5DX-sama%5B/b%5D(/url)
That way, instead of seeing the top 5 ranking, we could see how other users fair as well. Also, according to “Internet Law”, shouldn’t it be top [i]10[/i] instead?
Perhaps the comment rating statistics link at the base of the comments could display stats for the [i]current article[/i] instead of the overall SanCom stats?
Once again, kudos to Artefact-san for the added features. Seems that SanCom’s comments system is the most progressive of all.
Hmmph… My comment appeared hours after submission which wasted my opportunity to edit it. WTH…
Hope this problem gets rectified ASAP.
To answer your question about Top Rated users, the numbers mean votes towards that user. So, if it says…
[b]This Month[/b]
[b]X-sama[/b] has [b]Y plus[/b] and [b]Z minus[/b] votes
That means “across all of the comments that X-sama has posted between today and today-one-month-ago, s/he has received a total of Y plus votes and Z minus votes from other users”.
A bit too long to write all of that out for each user on the statistics page though, yes?
Can’t really be helped – there is no way anyone will know when their comment is cleared, so the time limit is meaningless as they will always miss it.
The comment links on these pages never actually linked to profile pages.
Current stats is an interesting idea, although the most relevant are already at the top of the comments section.
It just keeps getting better and better.
I like the title image.
Makes you realize what people evaluate as “good” on here is beyond fucking ridiculous and sad more then anything..
yeah, but when you become as bitter and synical as I am, the next step beyond disgust at the sociatal malaise is ammusement. keep going youre almost there…
what, pretty nice thing to happen here anyways