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theamericansWell, the good news is that the episode discussion posts have been enormously popular--thanks so much to everyone who's joined in and helped make them such a resounding success!
The bad news is that they're so popular that if someone watches the episode late and wants to jump in after a day or two, they often don't know where to start in terms of reading the discussion that's gone before (since reading it all often isn't an option for a busy person). Of course anyone can always start an entirely new thread at the bottom, and that's great, but some people want to read some of the other discussion, and it would be nice to make it easier for them to do that.
Sotreonb and I had the idea that we'd like to encourage people to use the subject headers more. What this means is that when you're leaving a comment, it would be great if you could give your comment a subject having something to do with what the comment is about. This can be done when you're starting a brand new thread, where you could call your comment something like "Jae's thoughts upon first watching", but you can also add a more specific subject header when you're responding to someone else's comment (or change the one that's already there), like this:
If everyone does this, then when threads get long and the comments stop appearing in full, they will no longer look like this:
...but instead like this:
...and then people can click on the "expand" link for just the particular threads that sound intriguing to them based on the subject lines.
This isn't a change in official community policy for commenting or anything, so don't worry if you forget! We're just trying this out to see if it makes things easier. Because maybe even if only some people do it, it will have the effect of making the discussion posts seem less daunting.
And once again, thanks to everyone for participating! Treon and I are both so excited about how well the discussions have been going.
The bad news is that they're so popular that if someone watches the episode late and wants to jump in after a day or two, they often don't know where to start in terms of reading the discussion that's gone before (since reading it all often isn't an option for a busy person). Of course anyone can always start an entirely new thread at the bottom, and that's great, but some people want to read some of the other discussion, and it would be nice to make it easier for them to do that.
So
treonb and I had the idea that we'd like to encourage people to use the subject headers more. What this means is that when you're leaving a comment, it would be great if you could give your comment a subject having something to do with what the comment is about. This can be done when you're starting a brand new thread, where you could call your comment something like "Jae's thoughts upon first watching", but you can also add a more specific subject header when you're responding to someone else's comment (or change the one that's already there), like this:If everyone does this, then when threads get long and the comments stop appearing in full, they will no longer look like this:
...but instead like this:
...and then people can click on the "expand" link for just the particular threads that sound intriguing to them based on the subject lines.
This isn't a change in official community policy for commenting or anything, so don't worry if you forget! We're just trying this out to see if it makes things easier. Because maybe even if only some people do it, it will have the effect of making the discussion posts seem less daunting.
And once again, thanks to everyone for participating! Treon and I are both so excited about how well the discussions have been going.
Re: Reformatting threads?
Date: 2014-03-10 06:51 am (UTC)You can flatten out the comments, or look only at the top level comments and then drill down.
Once you've got a thread going, you've got an option at the bottom of every comment (or in your notification email) to open that thread. I use that a lot, opening up new tabs for different threads. That way, there are less comments on the page and they're all opened up.
Re: Reformatting threads?
Date: 2014-03-11 01:31 am (UTC)