How do I manage 700 comments?

nonduality · Member · Jan 18, 2009 at 11:38 pm
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http://nonduality.org/2008/11/28/adi-da-is-dead/#comments has nearly 700 comments and is still growing. Can the most recent comments appear at the top? Any suggestions for management without carrying the discussion to another online space? Moderation is tight. These are 700 meaty, lengthy comments. Thank you.

Jerry
vivianpaige · Member · Jan 18, 2009 at 11:45 pm
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You can’t have the most recent comments at the top without changing the timestamp on every comment. And if you don’t want to close the comments there and continue them on another post, then just let them continue there.

I’m not sure what it is you want to accomplish.
rosclarke · Member · Jan 18, 2009 at 11:51 pm
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You might want to add the Recent Comments widget to the sidebar to make it easier for people to see when new comments are added.
tellyworth · Staff · Jan 18, 2009 at 11:53 pm
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vivian, there are new comment options now.

nonduality, take a look at the Settings / Discussion tab of your dashboard. You’ll find options for splitting comments into pages (set it to 50 or something like that) and controlling the order of comments and comment pagination.

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thesacredpath · Member · Jan 18, 2009 at 11:56 pm
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@tellyworth, I know that is on the self-hosted 2.7, but I don’t see it here.
vivianpaige · Member · Jan 18, 2009 at 11:58 pm
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My dashboard doesn’t look like that picture and I don’t have all those options.
rosclarke · Member · Jan 19, 2009 at 12:06 am
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Me either. We’ve been waiting for the comment threading for ages. Please say this means it’s coming soon!
vivianpaige · Member · Jan 19, 2009 at 12:14 am
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Whew! I’m glad I’m not alone. Thought I was missing something.
rosclarke · Member · Jan 19, 2009 at 12:16 am
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I’m excited though. When we do get it, that’s going to be a huge improvement.
tellyworth · Staff · Jan 19, 2009 at 12:22 am
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Weird. That code is disabled and available only to site administrators – we do that sometimes when a feature causes problems on WordPress.com and needs more work. I assumed that wasn’t the case though because it’s in the support docs.

I’ll see if I can find out what’s happening with it and report back.
rosclarke · Member · Jan 19, 2009 at 12:23 am
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Thanks.
tellyworth · Staff · Jan 19, 2009 at 12:33 am
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The issue is with themes – all 60-ish themes need to be updated to work with comment pagination and threading before we can enable that feature. It’s in progress, coming soon.
rosclarke · Member · Jan 19, 2009 at 12:40 am
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Maybe it would be worth taking that section out of the support pages for the time being? Could cause lots of confusion (not least among WP staff). ;)
raincoaster · Member · Jan 19, 2009 at 1:00 am
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Please don’t do anything to mess up existing comment threads, like automatically splitting them after 50 or so comments. My Mummified Fairy Post would die if you did that!
rosclarke · Member · Jan 19, 2009 at 1:14 am
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It’s all right, raincoaster, I believe in your Mummified Fairy Post.
thesacredpath · Member · Jan 19, 2009 at 1:32 am
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@rain, all the options and just that, optional. No worries for you, just don’t active the paging stuff.
vivianpaige · Member · Jan 19, 2009 at 1:34 am
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I thought that we had a Sunday evening surprise :( Tellyworth – what you found out was what we had been told before (that the themes needed updating). I agree with rosclarke – the support section shouldn’t have that in there until the feature is enabled.

And now I’m off to check out rain’s Mummified Fairy Post :)
raincoaster · Member · Jan 19, 2009 at 1:55 am
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If you haven’t seen it, you’re the last person on Earth. That thing’s been in my top three posts all week, and I still haven’t broken 1400 on it!
vivianpaige · Member · Jan 19, 2009 at 2:45 am
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OK, so the last person on earth has now seen that thread ;)
raincoaster · Member · Jan 19, 2009 at 2:58 am
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But…did you leave a comment???

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