Journal Penurious Penguin's Journal: An encounter with 'invisible' parent-comments in Slashdot - Why? 2
First, this is NOT a submission. I was not aware of any other way to ask an informal question, so I've posted to
After making several comments on Slashdot today, I later checked for replies directly on the article's front page and discovered one of my comments appearing out of context. An image of this thread here(1) , shows I had responded to an AC who had replied to one of my comments. The AC's comment is clearly visible and it can be viewed by its ID here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=3146679&cid=41472221, where you will see my reply, stupid or not, but in context.
you can see that the threshold for displaying comments is set to Full, which still left the AC comment invisible while viewing its child-comment (my comment).
Image (1) was captured from within my user-account options, which automatically loads all comments for single threads. What I failed to realize is that to see all comments on the article page, I needed to click the Load All Comments option. See here(3). Yes, I know, eureka.
But without selecting the Load All Comments option, my comment is displayed without its parent, appearing as if I've responded to another user. Below is a [mis]representation of my comment as it would presumably appear to all other Slashdot users, regardless of their settings and whether logged in or not: See(4)
It is unlikely that most Slashdot users select the Load All Comments option -- apparently resulting in some comments appearing completely out of context, almost guaranteeing they will be moderated as "Troll" or "Offtopic". It seems unreasonable for a parent-comment to be invisible when viewing its child-comment simply because the parent is rated zero or below (- 1). As I believe is well-illustrated by the images linked herein, such a protocol can corrupt otherwise normal or higher-rated comments. Has it always been this way? Is this more sensible than I realize? Do I have a point? Is this the cost of replying to ACs? Or am I missing something?
You're missing something (I think) (Score:2)
I believe the sliders should both be moved to the right all the way.
Derp, just looked at more of your linked-to images and... never mind.
Seems you've found something. Maybe try sliding the left-most slider to the right, let the comment hierarchy redraw, then move it left.