Comments on: Comment Live Preview Placement

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By: Henrik Kjelsberg

Henrik Kjelsberg — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 07:01:36 +0000

I REALLY dislike your suggestion and think it’s bad UX. The comment-area could be styled to mimic a regular comment pixel by pixel, so there is no use for an extra preview. That’s just confusing or at least messy.

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10 Ways To Make Your Blog’s Comment Form Stand Out — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:43:21 +0000

[...] Letting the user have a chance to see what they are about to post prevents not only spell mistakes or grammatical errors but also gives them a chance to have a second thought over what they have written. There are some nice plugins like Live Comment Preview to add this type of feature into WordPress comment form. But the question is not only the preview functionality but also where the preview will be shown, Lorelle VanFossen has written a good tutorial about live comment preview position. [...]

By: Ted Powell

Ted Powell — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:48:47 +0000

“If you have a WordPress.com blog, you currently cannot change anything associated with Comments.”

Thank you for that clarification. Now I know that it’s no use to request a wordpress.com blogger to enable comment preview. It hadn’t occurred to me that such a basic feature would be completely missing.

“As for why they can’t see the comments when the write them, that’s odd.”

The simple answer is that when they write them they have no reliable way of predicting how the wordpress.com software will process them. Note for example shreevatsa’s surprise, expressed in comment 7 above, at the big blue rectangles that showed up in his comment 6 *after* he submitted it for processing by the site software. (I would have put “after” in italics rather than using asterisks, if I were able to preview the result.)

“The majority of blogs do not feature a comment preview.”

I almost made a snarky remark here, but I really do review my comments before posting them. This may actually be true, if it’s the case that the majority of blogs are hosted by wordpress.com. Having said that, what *is* the basis for this claim?

“If they can’t control what they write in a comment in the first place, a comment preview isn’t going to help them.”

Trivially true, but you are skipping over the real issue. Commenters can *not* control the processing of their comments by the site software, and some of us care enough about our public personas to want the opportunity to check in private for surprises perpetrated upon us by the submission process.

“Still, everyone, including bloggers professional or otherwise, need to think through their comments, with or without code, before posting.”

I *do* think through my comments. How does thinking them through let me know what a blockquote, for example, is going to look like? Please explain.

By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:30:28 +0000

@ klongofconsciousness: Change the position of what? The live comment preview? If you have a WordPress.com blog, you currently cannot change anything associated with Comments. This is only for users of the full version of WordPress.

By: klongofconsciousness

klongofconsciousness — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:59:26 +0000

umm.. sorry but how do you change the position?

By: Cody

Cody — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:48:41 +0000

Wow that is cool... I think im gonna have to install it on my internet marketing ideas blog.. hmm I figured you'd have it installed for us to preview.. lol.. thanks for the helpful post!

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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:23:44 +0000

I admitted there were issues with comments, and few people blockquote in comments, though I'm seeing a new trend, so I may style blockquotes for comments differently. Still, everyone, including bloggers professional or otherwise, need to think through their comments, with or without code, before posting. Site owners can clean up comments if they want to, which I highly recommend when people make mistakes. I know this is of critical importance to you, but it is a fact that it isn't so important to most. I recommend you read How NOT to Comment on Comments and Editing Your Blog Comments for more help on this.

By: shreevatsa

shreevatsa — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:32:41 +0000

Sorry for posting so frequently, but what I forgot to mention -- probably the most important thing -- is that while Blogger at least warns you (during Preview) that your post contains disallowed HTML and gives you the chance to fix it, WordPress silently discards all tags, and turns your post into a mess. I asked about this in the forums a few months ago, but I just tried asking again through the "Contact Support" option, let's see.