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Comment Voting Now In Beta!
Posted on: April 21, 2008, at 04:01:38pm

A few minutes ago I flipped the switch for comment voting.

For the time being, you can vote on any comment in a news post or random thought. We will be expanding this to other areas of the site in time.

Also, subscribers get their own background color on news comments.

:C=

  1. HOT!

  2. cool!

  3. Down me please! :D

  4. I like this its fun =D

  5. 3rd

  6. 6 damn
    :)

  7. The votes aren't recording in these comments I guess.

  8. Just like on YouTube.

  9. Whoops, I'll fix that.

  10. SWEET!

  11. And how do I change the color for new comments?

  12. You guys make this site even sexier by the day. Keep it up. <3

  13. Oooh, news, not new >.<

  14. yay

  15. All fixed :D

  16. WEEEEEEEEEEEEEWT

  17. Yea walros!

  18. Wow nice. xp

  19. Umm, also, comment #11 has a point.

  20. If subscribers and admins get their own color comment backgrounds, make sure regular staff members get their own as well. Green or something

  21. do what now?

  22. interesting...
    :C=!

  23. I don't think that I understand, but cool...

  24. o.o

  25. So what exactly is the purpose of this?

  26. Neat

  27. Gotta digg, gotta digg, gotta digg. Gotta make this comment big~

  28. lol

  29. Also, subscribers get their own background color on news comments.
    i'm sure you thought of it before me but i said that in a news comment a few days ago XD

  30. The subscriber news comment background color was implemented when the layout switched, just the color itself was not.

  31. Hmmm, okay.

  32. oh ok i understand. sweet stuff MalDON, keep it up :)

  33. My eyes need to adjust to this new layout.

  34. Sweet. ^^

  35. hawtness ;)

  36. haha hawttttttttttt :D

  37. WOOT!!!
    ~Cardman~

  38. I hate to follow everyone else, but HOTTTT

  39. Colors?

  40. that nice :D

  41. the walrus is all-wise

  42. wheres my color choice?

  43. nm i see lol

  44. Stealing youtube's idear i see.

  45. This isn't a youtube idea... It came from Digg.com Reddit.com ... youtube stole their idea!

  46. And you stole theirs, Maldon I really don't like you.

  47. Walrus stole the bucket!

  48. Damn right I stole the bukkit back!

  49. Sexy

  50. sweetnezz =P

  51. What?! I guys down voted me? Funny.

  52. You rockssssss.
    Love it! <3

  53. Awesomeness!! =D
    One question: is there any way I can view the old subby updates? The only thing I can seem to find is the 'Hide' button..
    Sorry, Im a n00b. -_-

  54. My own background!

  55. oh boy, just like youtube. new ways for people to be bigger losers

  56. why are you guys comparing this you youtube? Youtube was not the first to use a user voting system. In fact, I don't like the way they even implemented it.
    Trust me, when I'm done coding in all the little extras, this will be far better than anything youtube has.

  57. 'Comment below threshold'
    Haha.

  58. I'm still not understanding the color part.
    What colors?

  59. Go look at the new post comments. Subscribers have blue as the comment background color, admins red/pink...

  60. Oh, that's what you mean. >_>
    I saw that a long time ago, I was just waiting for some color on here, lol.

  61. sowy walrus

  62. We do plan to move colors onto these types of comments, but there is no system for that right now. I'll try to throw one together tonight.

  63. so what if youtube wasnt the first. its the first site i think of and it sucks there, i just think its lame.

  64. Maldon, you're just making FFR look like other websites. It's really annoying and a lot people don't like it. Be original :/

  65. I think it's okay. I don't think Walrus' bucket, full of stuff comming for us in the future (except 3rd style), is annoying. He's just adding a whole bunch of useless but nice stuff. =)
    Good going MalDON, you're awesome!

  66. Someone down voted me, I'm mad now. ;/

  67. That would be me.

  68. Babyvpr: It's not stealing from other websites, it's just neat effects, I guarantee that the websites you speak of stole them too.

  69. this is trippy lol 2 thumbs up :)

  70. stfu babyviper
    cool updates

  71. Awesomeness :D!

  72. stfu? Uh, no? My opinions.

  73. I down voted Izzy, teehee.

  74. Cool....

  75. stop whoring the comment voting. there's too many Up votes @_@

  76. Have any other switches to be flipped?

  77. To be completely honest.. I don't see how this helps anything. People are being extremely rude with the voting. It's allowing for the majority to gang up on anyone with a differing opinion (as this thread is showing clearly). Then it completely hides their post, pretty much making this a one-sided comment thread. If this is to deter spam, it's doing a crappy job of it IMO.

  78. I think it should only have voting on messages that are over a certain length. Whats the point on voting on a message thats 1-2 words.

  79. 'w'

  80. I think it should just be positive votes only. If you don't like a comment, just don't give the comment a vote.

  81. wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

  82. The entire point of this, Summerschool, is not to fight spam, but a way to encourage good posting. Single word comments are useless. if you post something good and enough people like it, you get voted up.
    Sure there is mob mentality, that's normal. If this was such a bad idea, then why do all the other popular sites use it? Or is it because Myspace doesn't use it. Regardless, you will see that in time, it will pay off.

  83. Hm, since there is a max character limit there should be a mininum character as well.

  84. Yea, I agree with liz!

  85. I like the idea. Now make me green in the regular news posts and I'll like you even more :(

  86. please put an option to not hide stuff... I really hate clicking every link... I like reading everything

  87. Lololol. Whee~

  88. Judgment at its best. Not good.

  89. make the animation go faster or have it show the message immediately on request.

  90. Holy fruitcake! Thank you for adding this feature!

  91. I love how subscribers automatically get +1 on comments, haha.

  92. this is my roflcopter soi soi soi soi soi soi

  93. Ooh thank you a lot MalDON :), looks great!

  94. Truthfully, I like how this system promotes animation upon clicking something. I hope the rest of the site turns out like it should. I would definitely not mind clicking something and then seeing some animation in response. This site deserves the 1337 it already is.

  95. wow, im gone for 2 days, and alot happens.lol

  96. i r happy ;0

  97. Great idea! If you could get this to rank itsself so that the most popular comment goes to the top, It would stop all this stupid 'Im fiiiirst! yaaay' stuff that happens!

  98. XD
    awsomeness!!! *downs*

  99. Wow. I think you guys should also make a fix for say under -10 dont get shown.

  100. Under -5 and under are hidden.