I’d love to get rid of the current avatar images though. I usually use a photo of this old bronze head in other places.
WordPress is all in on Gravatar. Subscribers can specify their own profile photo, but I believe that WordPress uses that photo and the subscriber's e-mail to create a minimal Gravatar profile on their behalf.
2025-10-16 17:18:03
Here's an odd request, and I have no idea if the current comment plugin supports it. I'd like to have a "reply" button at the bottom of each comment. Say, on the same line as the -0+ rating thing, but over against the right border. When the button is clicked, the comment box should move to be directly below the comment where reply was clicked. No scrolling up or down to find the box.
2025-10-16 13:58:52
A small complaint about the current comment plugin... When I post a comment, it appears at the top of the comment list, but any comments that have been submitted since I loaded the page and the time my comment is posted do not appear. I have to refresh the page in order to see them.
2025-10-16 13:25:08
1) My opinion is that three links are okay, more are not. Something with more than three links generally deserves to be a top-level post with its own discussion, not a comment.
2) 14 days seems too short. 30? I believe that long open periods don't stimulate additional discussion because very late comments are almost invisible. The post has long-since scrolled off the front page, and the comment will quickly scroll off the recent-comments list.
3) The most useful feature is probably not having to type your name or e-mail each time, with possible mistyped e-mail address. Avoiding the wrong address benefits people who use an address registered at Gravatar.com. There are a handful of people on the internet who actually recognize my stupid picture of a transistor as a sort-of credential. That feature doesn't benefit me personally; I have code running in my browser that auto-fills the name and e-mail fields at the few sites where I comment regularly.
Someone should write a post about the pros and cons of concealing your identity.
I maintain a piece of code at another site that provides a comment-centric view of what's going on. One of the features is a paged, time-ordered list of all the comments associated with a particular name, either for a single post, or across all posts. While I am seldom interested in looking at a history of my own comments, it is occasionally useful to look at part of the history of a specific user's comments. Eg, if I know GftNC made a comment I've been thinking about, but I don't remember exactly which post it was attached to.
I’d love to get rid of the current avatar images though. I usually use a photo of this old bronze head in other places.
WordPress is all in on Gravatar. Subscribers can specify their own profile photo, but I believe that WordPress uses that photo and the subscriber's e-mail to create a minimal Gravatar profile on their behalf.
Here's an odd request, and I have no idea if the current comment plugin supports it. I'd like to have a "reply" button at the bottom of each comment. Say, on the same line as the -0+ rating thing, but over against the right border. When the button is clicked, the comment box should move to be directly below the comment where reply was clicked. No scrolling up or down to find the box.
A small complaint about the current comment plugin... When I post a comment, it appears at the top of the comment list, but any comments that have been submitted since I loaded the page and the time my comment is posted do not appear. I have to refresh the page in order to see them.
1) My opinion is that three links are okay, more are not. Something with more than three links generally deserves to be a top-level post with its own discussion, not a comment.
2) 14 days seems too short. 30? I believe that long open periods don't stimulate additional discussion because very late comments are almost invisible. The post has long-since scrolled off the front page, and the comment will quickly scroll off the recent-comments list.
3) The most useful feature is probably not having to type your name or e-mail each time, with possible mistyped e-mail address. Avoiding the wrong address benefits people who use an address registered at Gravatar.com. There are a handful of people on the internet who actually recognize my stupid picture of a transistor as a sort-of credential. That feature doesn't benefit me personally; I have code running in my browser that auto-fills the name and e-mail fields at the few sites where I comment regularly.
Someone should write a post about the pros and cons of concealing your identity.
I maintain a piece of code at another site that provides a comment-centric view of what's going on. One of the features is a paged, time-ordered list of all the comments associated with a particular name, either for a single post, or across all posts. While I am seldom interested in looking at a history of my own comments, it is occasionally useful to look at part of the history of a specific user's comments. Eg, if I know GftNC made a comment I've been thinking about, but I don't remember exactly which post it was attached to.