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Putting the name on the bottom of the comment
Did you consider putting the name on the bottom of the comment? As tildes invites for high quality discussions witch tend to incent longer comments than elswhere i think it might be better suited to have the name on the end of the comment.
This has some advantages:
- It's easier to notice the autor of a good long text
- When starting to read a comment you don't now the autor yet, so its easier to rate the content instead of the person
- It looks a lot more like a letter, which suits tildes well I think
Maybe it's just me coming from reddit where you close to never meet the same autor twice, so reading the names of the autors does not really matter, and as tildes uses a very similar design I just never seem to notice the name and always have to scroll back up afterwards.
I woud leave the date on top and put the name just between the comment and the vote and reply button with a "~" in front of it, kind of how you would sign a letter
yes exactly like that!
We could just follow all @LetsTalkAboutDnD example :-)
-Don Camillo
This has been already brought up in the past. Anyway my personal view on it is that I quite rarely bother with who is that wrote the comment.
It is kinda easily noticeable now because the community is still small. On a website with a big userbase, think reddit, how many times you paid attention to the username unless someone made a comment about the username being funny/relevant/etc?
Hell, part of the "funny" threads are wrote by different users for every comment, but pretending to be a dialogue between two people.
yes but tildes is not reddit, even if it looks like it :-)
and in the case you really like a comment you only know that after you've read it. And that's when I'm actually interested in the person who said the smart/funny/thoughtful thing, so that's where I think the name should be, not on top
It's an interesting idea, I think I'd support it. I admit that on reddit, the username and previous vote count can bias me against or towards a comment before I've even started reading it.
I don't think it would change that much... I'd prefer it stays as it is and doesn't waste dev's time
Semi-unrelated, but maybe it would be a nice option to add comment signing. For example, I could set up a prewritten signature and have it included in all of my comments. Possiblly create another checkbox,
sign this comment, for the one, two word comments/replies.I remember that functionality from many messaging board engines. Not once it was useful. It's merely an artifact from the days of e-mail, which in itself is an artifact from written business letters.
Having a potential of being used for something good once in forever doesn't justify adding this feature and dragging it around.
No.
I don't agree with @Don_Camillo's suggestion either but at least all the other similar comments here have expressed their disagreement constructively, whereas yours added absolutely nothing of value to the discussion IMO. Were comment tags back I would have tagged it as
noiseand were trusted user actions in place I imagine your comment would have been removed entirely. In the future I would suggest at least expanding on your position and explaining why you hold it, rather than just stating flatly what it is with nothing else.Flipside: it's a gut response. The simple rejection hadn't been voiced. And if you'll check my history, I've commented at length or linked to at-length remarks, previously.
Having to tap out reasoned disagreements to every suggestion, well-intended or otherwise, is its own DoS attack. (My primary device is a highly inadequate tablet.)
Yes, I might have put in more effort, but that's a two-way street.
I don't think that your gut response adds anything meaningful to the discussion. Honestly, I really don't care about a random person on the internet's gut response.
The OP posted a reasoned argument for having names at the bottom, If he had just asked "Should user names names go at the bottom of comments?" than "no" could be an appropriate response, but as it stands now, I don't think it adds anything to the discussion, and I also don't see how the fact that you've posted longer comments in the past is relevant.