On commenting schema

[alias_sqbr]

One of the main reasons I got a livejournal was to be able to get comment notifications when I replied to people. And one of the main reasons I switched over completely was that I liked the comment threading and notifications, they created a much more vibrant discussion that I ever got at my blogger blog. I used to spend a lot of time in forums etc getting frustrated at having to constantly check all the threads I was in and being forced to engage with the WHOLE discussion on a post/topic rather than just the bit I was interested in, eg any time there was a troll everyone got derailed.

Having gotten used to lj style commenting I am loathe to get involved in any online discussions that don't have comment notifications and threading. Most places have comment notification now (Thank GOD) but most blogs and mailing lists don't have threading, or not to the full extent of lj. I was surprised in a discussion about comment policies at Hoyden About Town by some people who hate threading, but I guess I can see how that would be annoying if you always DO want to hear the whole conversation at once and don't like things splitting off.

I also am lazy and can't be bothered reading stuff I can't navigate entirely by my friendlists and email, though I'm not as bad as the people who refuse to read feeds or more than one flist (I have 4, though I never check my insanejournal) Thus I can't bring myself to engage with forums, even stuff like Starship Earth or the Jane Austen forums which aren't replicated elsewhere.

I remember when I had the feed to my blog people kept commenting on the feed (which I didn't get notifications for, and which vanished within a week or two) rather than clicking to get to the blog itself. This was very annoying.

Anyway, this post was inspired by wanting to comment on an article at the F word and discovering that their comment policy is "you send us an email, and if we like it we add it to a monthly comment digest". !!!

So how do you feel about commenting? I realise it's not a very exciting topic but I felt like talking about it :)

Comments

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

*blinks*

I didn't even realise you screened comments, then I looked at the from section of replying. :P

I used to have anonymous and non-friends screened. Particularly after Davyd made comments telling me to go kill myself, waaaay back in like first or second year. The only reason I stopped screening was because I kept forgetting to unscreen all the usual comments I got (yours and Thatchers before you both had ljs). I can't even remember what my settings are atm, after the great 'I hate all feminists'* comments from a month or so ago.

So yeah I see the point in screening and deleting sometimes, but I dislike cases where its done because someone disagrees with you, as opposed to someone being blatantly abusive. Which was kinda my point.

Out of curiosity am I allowed to know what that screened comment was about?

* I do not think this statement is true, even though I do have many issues with feminism which I'm sure you've picked up on by now.

[alias_sqbr]

I don't remember to be honest. *pokes around* Ah. During the discussion on warnings someone said something which I felt wasn't totally without merit but as it had been written would be more upsetting to people with triggers than I was comfortable with in a post on the subject.

A useful way to keep track of screened comments is to look back at your archive with the "View subjects" option, at least on dw it tells you what posts have screened comments. Not that I have remembered to do this for ages until just now :)