having a thumbs up and a thumbs down feature for comments?
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+1
Thumbs Up is fine . No need for a thumbs down, Just ignore the prick.
Definitely want!
One of the reasons I like this site is having a thumbs up and a thumbs down feature for comments.
I like the old style.
just ups
Corrected comments are nice too. I meant I like the thumbs up feature.
Just ups. Hell, your contest posts depend on them!
Thumbs up and down. It’s only fair and accurate.
Do you know hard it is to find just ups???
The best I can do is have a thumb up say like and then change the thumb down to read really like.
So up and down will both be likes and really likes.
No thumbs down.
If you want to thumb me down, just man-up and reply with a non- anonymous rant about why I am full of shit
But Moe Tom, I like to vote the thumbs down when appropriate. I prefer not to ignore pricks, but to let pricks know I think they are pricks.
I gave myself a thumbs up? That’s wrong. And get rid of the thumbs down. Too many trolls rely on them.
A thumb-down is like a drive-by shooting.
What is this iotwreportChicago?
Long live the thumbs!
BFH, so not allow these pricks to cause you to overthink this. (I’m kidding, pricks, just kidding.)
I vote thumbs down to no thumbs down! Go easy on yourself and give us both.
Is someone already downthumbing us??
Wow…I can thumb-up my own comments too!
Thumbs up and down. What’s the deal you guys can’t handle negativity? Ya all
Sound like a bunch of Fing liberals. Now wouldn’t you like to give me a thumbs down? LOL
Let me keep looking. This plugin is just a placeholder.
This site should be 100% positive, nothing but unicorns and rainbows…
Hold on a sec. I’ve been thumbing up only, and they always end up thumbs down. WTF?
Otay.
Huh?
I agree with LBS – thumbs up only and if you disagree, then tell me why.
Well we haven’t mentioned abortion so it can’t
be LIR…and I don’t see our resident sock puppet “Liberal Larry” here yet.
Keep arguing while I look around.
Hmm…the counter on the thumbs up just went to market apparently.
How about a thumbs up and a middle-finger up?
Pricks want to be recognized. They want negative recognition even more than they would want positive recognition. They love to be obnoxious. They hate being ignored and will go away.
I would but the functionality just left for parts unknown. 🙂
I like the TU only option.
If you offer TD, people usually just thumb you down if they disagree and don’t say WHY they don’t agree. It’s too easy to TD someone and walk away. It’s better to say WHY you don’t like or don’t agree with what someone said and have discussions.
You also end up with progtards coming over thumbing everything down like children. It gets old fast.
Tired Mom Just what Loco Blanco Saltine said. Thumbs up only. If a guy like liberal larry comes on .just ignore him or tell him to fuck off. If I say something stupid or racist. tell me.
Exactly. I agree with that, you full of shit bastard. 😉
Bruce Jenner wants a…er…nevermind…nevermind…we’re not having that kind of “body part up” on this site!
Me too MJA. But now all thumbs have disappeared.
Okay, this might be weird in its visual, but we’ve turned thumbs down to mean you REALLY like the comment.
Do we like this?
Wow…did I take the brown acid…everytime I go to post a new comment, the interface changes…now we have “thumb way up”…interesting…must have another beverage as apparently, my hallucinations are affecting time and space at this point…or it could be the internet…
Wait… Is the thumb way up like a thumb way up your ass? lol
@MJA – I think the counter only reflects TU – clicking TD seems to have no effect on the count
Very similar to what the MSM uses during polling for Dems
Consider this a TU for your comment MJA.
I’m way confused. lol.
Thumbs up sponsored by Diebold apparently.
Ok I got it!!!
A lily if you like the comment.
A daffodil if you really like the comment.
A rose if you LOVE the comment.
A pansy if you kinda agree with the comment…
I think BFH is sayen that’s hard to do. I like the thumbs up and down. For one it use to attract Libs that we ended up murdering. It provided for a lot of fun.
Oh, it is SO ON MJA!!!
Can’t find just the thumbs up like we had.
It is probably off the market.
I’ll keep looking.
Started the above post with one style comment, finished with a second. Are you going to change the red TD graphic on the “Really Like” button? Too confusing if you do not.
lol
I agree.
You’ve got my size!
This is like during the Price Is Right and the contestant asks the audience and they don’t know what the fuck they are talking about.
Actually I don’t care as long as I have a back-door way to thumb myself up 437 times!
A cactus if you don’t like the comment
A bouganvillea if you hate the comment
A thistle if you want the person who made the comment to suffer boils…
Fuck it. Don’t make no matter to me no how. I don’t like what Bad Brad says, I just tell him. Same goes for the others. I likes what they says I gives them a thumb up. The others, I jest ignore or say fuck off or somthin.’
So, you’ve been running an archaic site Fur?
Can you make the thumbs down make a fart sound when selected?
An affirmation of really great comments is a great idea to keep the competitive debate going. Nuthin wrong with a thumbs down either
Frilliant!!!
How about a “Bronx Cheer” feature for trolls? Hit a “Thumbs down” and a nice loud “Bronx Cheer” goes along with it.
But then, I’d be TD all the comments because fart sounds make me giggle.
Tom, exactly, So a thumbs down isn’t going to hurt my feelings ( if I had any). I think it helps “The” debate.
edit feature was nice for knee jerk remarks …of which I have been guilty
Corona. I just read your comment. Great minds think alike! LOL! BRAP!
Can’t we just hire that Jonathan Gruber guy from the ObamaCare website?
I hear Sandra Fluke will work cheap for a quickie…
Yes. Bring back edit!
T/U and “Harrumph!” ?
Brad, I just thumbed you down with a million points of light via my psychokinetic energy.
Sleep tight!
Edit is a very, very, very handy tool.
A turd with flies option for trolling progs would be nice, but that technology doesn’t seem to exist in comment sections yet. Could be a money maker for a good programmer, eh?
Keep arguing?
OK, I will try…
That should work for now.
To me, a thumbs up is like applause for a great comment.
Loco, I’m impervious to Mex bad will. Neener Neener. On this very thread we have s troll banging on BFH for a miss spelled word. Really? BafH probably hasn’t seen his pillow in a while, totally in crisis mode and this critic wants to pull this shit? A thumbs down for the community can send a clear message
Scratch that. it shows a red thumbs down graphic after clicking and I can vote on my own comment.
keep it
Leftists are going to come here just to hit every single thumbs down they can, just to compensate for their worthlessness.
How about including a Hillary ‘H’ symbol?
In very rare case I write something extremely ignorant or libelous I can click the ‘H’ and nuke the whole damn thread!
Breaking: 9 killed in Charleston, SC Church shooting….Here we go, muzzie or tea party?
Yay! it works.
Great work BFH on getting the site back up an working so well so quickly.
Hey I’d like to be able to thumb up my self, like the Clintons do, and Obama, and Karl Roves, and Bill O’Reilly, an’ others do.
Meerkat – The first reports I heard said a white guy did it, but some of the local news stations aren’t reporting that as a sure thing.
I wonder if it could be a reverse Rachel Dolezal or simply a light skinned person of whatever lineage.
And this will tell us how the reply works.
Hey bad_brad…just hit the “thumbs up” on a comment…it turned red and hit thumbs down…definitely sponsored by Diebold thumbing going on.
Ya can Moe. I just did one of mine to see if it let you do it.
At least that way we can have at least 1 TU no matter what we say.
Black Lives Splatter
What? Too soon?
If the edit function becomes available, it looks pretty near perfect to me.
Scumbag: Small-build white make, clean shaven, blue jeans, gray shirt, timberland-type boots, at large.
AME Emmanuel Church, a black church founded nearly 2 centuries ago.
Shit…9 dead so far…white male, shaved head, early 20’s.
Not gonna touch that one…
Make that “clean shaven”…sorry…first reports and all.
TU and TD are fine by me and Edit for sure. I can’g ttpee wirth shit. 😉
Hmm…hovered over one of the comments and it said “you have not permission to unlike”…WTF…have we outsourced the thumbs?
The reason it turned red was because it was giving you the option to take your vote back.
But no one else saw the red. It was just telling you you voted on that comment already.
So now that we’re all transgender capable we can all have a boner?
BFH – Can you just work on the site features as a full time thing from now on? It’s quite a lot of fun just watching it come back to life in front of my eyes.
Excellent job all the way around
thumbs up, sweet
no thumbs, meh, it rides
thumbs down, microaggression?
DO WHATS RIGHT FOR YOUR BLOG
I want it to say “Comment makes me wet”
Well that comment definitely gives me a boner…just working through all the “newness”…
I’m laughing like hell at the “Comment gives me a boner” !! But I’m afraid to give anybody a thumbs up until I’m sure you won’t change it again. lol
Did you jump in a lake…last time I checked “e-talk daily” you were still functionally male so you couldn’t have experienced dampness…Joey Biden…is this you sockpuppeting again?
Caitlyn, that’ll work too. 😉 I mean you can have both, a boner or a wet spot.
I love that in the middle of the voting process I could write – This comment is idiotic! and just turn the entire thing on its head.
Okay. What do people want the clickable box to say? We’re going to have to keep it that way.
So, think carefully.
People who liked this comment—>
Thumbs up ——->
Uptwinkles —–>
Hear! Hear! —->
Ditto ——>
Golf Clap —–>
How about a Pelosi button?
You have to push it to see what you get…
How about
Oonda-gleeben-glouten-globen?
I aslo suggest:
WTF?
Seriously Dude?
&
Negro Please?
“Like:”
K.I.S.B.F.H
Agreed. I can see trolls coming here to see how many thumbs down they can get as a sport.
Also, Thumbs down lets the lefty lurkies be lazy and just TD instead of engaging in dialog. Who would know if it was trolls or regulars TDing? As it was, we knew the honest feedback from the need to post.
I don’t like the thumbs down because idiot OCD progtards hit threads and just systematically thumbs down everyone regardless of comment content.
Def Leppard are offended at your microagression on this reply.
Oops. it auto-filled my old gravatar name and I didn’t catch it.
“Up Twinkles?” Seriously??
What the hell is wrong with you???
BFH Go thumbs up. Go anything but “reply” in red. And when you click on it it says “Cancel reply.” WTF?
Get with the program! It needs up-twinkles!
How about ‘fabulous’
you know where you can stuff your “uptwinkles”
red headlines burn my eyebones….
Moe – I like the reply option. It keeps the thread more focused because it is a response to an existing comment. The “cancel reply” just lets you decide to delete your reply if you decide you don’t want to comment on the existing comment.
I think it has the same option on the normal comment box that just says “cancel” or “cancel comment”.
LOL – I should have hit the reply button in your comment Moe.
At least my mistake shows the advantage of a “reply” button.
TU and TD.
I might not have time to reply to a comment I disagree with.
No.
“John Wayne would hump your leg”
IIRC “UpTwinkles ” originated at Occupy gatherings.
Which I detest,
I agree.
I can’t think of anything unfoolish to say. “Like” is good! Keep it simple.
Try a “Thumbs Up” in green and a “Middle Finger” in red.
If nothing else, it would be unique and absolutely unequivocal.
NO! puts more responsibility on the blogger to monitor, just what Big Brother wants.
aaathere is something wrong here. I just thumbed myself up on three comments. WTF?
I’m so impressed with BFH and the IOTWr team keeping the website going after getting sabotaged, while making improvements at the same time – BRAVO!
Keep just the thumbs up. It reflects the popularity of the comment and the thumbs down is not really necessary. The reply is nice and works well.
One day I found out I could down thumb people repeatedly. So I did.
OMG did they get pissed. Don’t let anyone tell you they can take multiple thumbs
Down. They can not take it.
Brad used to get super pissed.
I am amazed too. That is some fantastic work you did, are doing, BFH!! Like a magic trick, it’s hard to believe you could do all that is such a short time. Kudos!
Moe – your comments were so worthy that the software knew to let you give yourself a thumbs up.
And I have to agree with 99th that it is amazing that you were able to improve the site significantly while getting it up and running again in less than 48 hours.
If I’m elected president, you’re in charge of IT for the federal govt. I hate to punish ya like that but it’s your patriotic duty.
HE IS BATMAN!!!!!
I love thumb ups, hate thumb down. Trolls use thumb down only and then run away. It makes me not want to comment.
_______
Waaa, someone stole me!
Oh, here I am. Whew.
Agree, MJA. Almost makes me not want to comment. TDs are childish.
TD is the new TU!
Yes, I really do like the Reply button!
Sometimes when a person just comments about the story, the commenter above them thinks they are making a comment about what they just said.
Reply might just save a Hatfield/McCoy thing happening…or start one!
Only problem with “Like” is that it’s too Facebook-ee. I Hate Facebook.
How about “Agree”?
I happen to know of a website that could use a lot of help. However, It may take IT expertise just to dismantle the bugger!
Great job Fur!
Besides the Thumbs Up, there should be a Thumbs Down. However, the TD would not register. A small notation below with Vegas style flashing arrows would say “Scratch and Sniff” and Up Twinkle hands would pop up during rollover. This would keep a troll busy for hours! At least they would know what an LCD monitor smells like when you scratch through the surface…
Like the new look Fur. And no td. But EDIT would be nice!
Definitely thumbs up with a count,
like before. Also 5-minute edit to correct errors and improve readability. Can take or leave thumbs down (although there were times in the past when I REALLY wanted it).
WOW – just discovered edit is back!
Using it to add this P.S.
Thank you, thank you!
: )
TU and TD aside for the moment, the “Edit” feature saves one from looking like a total doofus many times *looks upward while whistling.*
Remember when LIBTARDIAN DISQUS cancelled the negative vote (a down arrow) their service had? The majority believed it was because leftist comments, meant to sway the discussion, were being overwhelming panned. The poor dears were trying to CONTROL messages via coments and righties weren’t having any of it.
I feel like a kindergartener at Breitbart; you’re not allowed to hurt anyone’s feelings, so therefore, the down arrows don’t register. I guess they’re still there to make you feel better when you vehemently disagree and mash one down – even though it doesn’t register.
turn your screen around…..
I like both the thumbs up and thumbs down.
I like the thrill of Noteworthy Comment and..the agony of no thumbs up.
I like edit, because coffee
I don’t care about TD, but I won’t be hitting it
I thought it was fine the way you had it.. why change it now?
Ricky,
we were blown up on Tuesday.
There was no site, nothing, nada, a ghost- wait, not even a ghost.
Our server in Canada decided to go postal and blew up his little piece of the internet.
In a fit of anger and adrenaline and divine intervention, I got this site up and running within hours.
But I had to rebuild it from scratch, a shell template.
The commenting system was built by someone other than me back in the day.
Since there is no previous server I have no idea what the system was.
So we have this.
I think it’s better.
We have thumbs up, no downs.
We have edit feature for readers, and we have reply nesting.
Now if I could just get rid of this highlighted box around post author’s comments I’d be thrilled.
it’s like voting republican in the last fews elections
Fur’s plug-in is actually owned by a Soros conglomerate
do whatever is the easiest & the cheapest ..things can be different in the future, perhaps ..
Mr. Hat,
Your efforts (and those who assisted you) have been Herculean – and I don’t mean that in any hyperbolic sense.
Thank you.
Why isn’t there a conservative server out there, somewhere?
The “Conserver” so to speak? Is it expensive? What does it entail?
(I’m a retired plumber, not an IT guy)
Missed IOTW while it was offline, and glad you are back! I like thumbs up/down. After a given number of thumbs down, the post could be removed, too.
BFH
Thumbs up is just fine….the thumbs down as we have seen in past history will only draw out the repulsive trolls with nothing to add to conversation i.e. Hines
Just remember, if you have TDs, the law of liberaldom requires you to maintain a “safe room” with puppies, rainbows, sippy cups of liberal Koolaid, and drum circles for the triggered ones.
You’re a bold one, Mr. BFH, a veritable Phoenix rising from the ashes! Keep the faith.
Your tenacity reminds me of a quote I saw while searching on a military database website. It is attributed to USMC Lt. Gen. “Chesty” Puller at Guadalcanal, “All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us…they can’t get away this time!”
Does it cost more?
AYFKM?
Nice job, Fur!
I like this format better than the previous one. It seems simpler to navigate, with less distractions.
I could do without the TD button, but maybe an Agree/Disagree option would be an acceptable alternative?
I also like the Noteworthy Comment highlights.
I find the page numbering system cumbersome.
It is difficult to revisit an earlier post, because the page nos. change quite often.
If the page numbers accrued from day one (rather than today’s date) this might work better.
Keep up the good work- we rely on you!
What I’d really like to see is a nose-thumb…
L.O.V.E. H.A.T.E.
That’s the way I will do it when I rule the tubes.
+1
Thumbs Up is fine . No need for a thumbs down, Just ignore the prick.
Definitely want!
One of the reasons I like this site is having a thumbs up and a thumbs down feature for comments.
I like the old style.
just ups
Corrected comments are nice too. I meant I like the thumbs up feature.
Just ups. Hell, your contest posts depend on them!
Thumbs up and down. It’s only fair and accurate.
Do you know hard it is to find just ups???
The best I can do is have a thumb up say like and then change the thumb down to read really like.
So up and down will both be likes and really likes.
No thumbs down.
If you want to thumb me down, just man-up and reply with a non- anonymous rant about why I am full of shit
But Moe Tom, I like to vote the thumbs down when appropriate. I prefer not to ignore pricks, but to let pricks know I think they are pricks.
I gave myself a thumbs up? That’s wrong. And get rid of the thumbs down. Too many trolls rely on them.
A thumb-down is like a drive-by shooting.
What is this iotwreportChicago?
Long live the thumbs!
BFH, so not allow these pricks to cause you to overthink this. (I’m kidding, pricks, just kidding.)
I vote thumbs down to no thumbs down! Go easy on yourself and give us both.
Is someone already downthumbing us??
Wow…I can thumb-up my own comments too!
Thumbs up and down. What’s the deal you guys can’t handle negativity? Ya all
Sound like a bunch of Fing liberals. Now wouldn’t you like to give me a thumbs down? LOL
Let me keep looking. This plugin is just a placeholder.
This site should be 100% positive, nothing but unicorns and rainbows…
Hold on a sec. I’ve been thumbing up only, and they always end up thumbs down. WTF?
Otay.
Huh?
I agree with LBS – thumbs up only and if you disagree, then tell me why.
Well we haven’t mentioned abortion so it can’t
be LIR…and I don’t see our resident sock puppet “Liberal Larry” here yet.
Keep arguing while I look around.
Hmm…the counter on the thumbs up just went to market apparently.
How about a thumbs up and a middle-finger up?
Pricks want to be recognized. They want negative recognition even more than they would want positive recognition. They love to be obnoxious. They hate being ignored and will go away.
I would but the functionality just left for parts unknown. 🙂
I like the TU only option.
If you offer TD, people usually just thumb you down if they disagree and don’t say WHY they don’t agree. It’s too easy to TD someone and walk away. It’s better to say WHY you don’t like or don’t agree with what someone said and have discussions.
You also end up with progtards coming over thumbing everything down like children. It gets old fast.
Tired Mom Just what Loco Blanco Saltine said. Thumbs up only. If a guy like liberal larry comes on .just ignore him or tell him to fuck off. If I say something stupid or racist. tell me.
Exactly. I agree with that, you full of shit bastard. 😉
Bruce Jenner wants a…er…nevermind…nevermind…we’re not having that kind of “body part up” on this site!
Me too MJA. But now all thumbs have disappeared.
Okay, this might be weird in its visual, but we’ve turned thumbs down to mean you REALLY like the comment.
Do we like this?
Wow…did I take the brown acid…everytime I go to post a new comment, the interface changes…now we have “thumb way up”…interesting…must have another beverage as apparently, my hallucinations are affecting time and space at this point…or it could be the internet…
Wait… Is the thumb way up like a thumb way up your ass? lol
@MJA – I think the counter only reflects TU – clicking TD seems to have no effect on the count
Very similar to what the MSM uses during polling for Dems
Consider this a TU for your comment MJA.
I’m way confused. lol.
Thumbs up sponsored by Diebold apparently.
Ok I got it!!!
A lily if you like the comment.
A daffodil if you really like the comment.
A rose if you LOVE the comment.
A pansy if you kinda agree with the comment…
I think BFH is sayen that’s hard to do. I like the thumbs up and down. For one it use to attract Libs that we ended up murdering. It provided for a lot of fun.
Oh, it is SO ON MJA!!!
Can’t find just the thumbs up like we had.
It is probably off the market.
I’ll keep looking.
Started the above post with one style comment, finished with a second. Are you going to change the red TD graphic on the “Really Like” button? Too confusing if you do not.
lol
I agree.
You’ve got my size!
This is like during the Price Is Right and the contestant asks the audience and they don’t know what the fuck they are talking about.
Actually I don’t care as long as I have a back-door way to thumb myself up 437 times!
A cactus if you don’t like the comment
A bouganvillea if you hate the comment
A thistle if you want the person who made the comment to suffer boils…
Fuck it. Don’t make no matter to me no how. I don’t like what Bad Brad says, I just tell him. Same goes for the others. I likes what they says I gives them a thumb up. The others, I jest ignore or say fuck off or somthin.’
So, you’ve been running an archaic site Fur?
Can you make the thumbs down make a fart sound when selected?
An affirmation of really great comments is a great idea to keep the competitive debate going. Nuthin wrong with a thumbs down either
Frilliant!!!
How about a “Bronx Cheer” feature for trolls? Hit a “Thumbs down” and a nice loud “Bronx Cheer” goes along with it.
But then, I’d be TD all the comments because fart sounds make me giggle.
Tom, exactly, So a thumbs down isn’t going to hurt my feelings ( if I had any). I think it helps “The” debate.
edit feature was nice for knee jerk remarks …of which I have been guilty
Corona. I just read your comment. Great minds think alike! LOL! BRAP!
Can’t we just hire that Jonathan Gruber guy from the ObamaCare website?
I hear Sandra Fluke will work cheap for a quickie…
Yes. Bring back edit!
T/U and “Harrumph!” ?
Brad, I just thumbed you down with a million points of light via my psychokinetic energy.
Sleep tight!
Edit is a very, very, very handy tool.
A turd with flies option for trolling progs would be nice, but that technology doesn’t seem to exist in comment sections yet. Could be a money maker for a good programmer, eh?
Keep arguing?
OK, I will try…
That should work for now.
To me, a thumbs up is like applause for a great comment.
Loco, I’m impervious to Mex bad will. Neener Neener. On this very thread we have s troll banging on BFH for a miss spelled word. Really? BafH probably hasn’t seen his pillow in a while, totally in crisis mode and this critic wants to pull this shit? A thumbs down for the community can send a clear message
Scratch that. it shows a red thumbs down graphic after clicking and I can vote on my own comment.
keep it
Leftists are going to come here just to hit every single thumbs down they can, just to compensate for their worthlessness.
How about including a Hillary ‘H’ symbol?
In very rare case I write something extremely ignorant or libelous I can click the ‘H’ and nuke the whole damn thread!
Breaking: 9 killed in Charleston, SC Church shooting….Here we go, muzzie or tea party?
Yay! it works.
Great work BFH on getting the site back up an working so well so quickly.
Hey I’d like to be able to thumb up my self, like the Clintons do, and Obama, and Karl Roves, and Bill O’Reilly, an’ others do.
Meerkat – The first reports I heard said a white guy did it, but some of the local news stations aren’t reporting that as a sure thing.
I wonder if it could be a reverse Rachel Dolezal or simply a light skinned person of whatever lineage.
And this will tell us how the reply works.
Hey bad_brad…just hit the “thumbs up” on a comment…it turned red and hit thumbs down…definitely sponsored by Diebold thumbing going on.
Ya can Moe. I just did one of mine to see if it let you do it.
At least that way we can have at least 1 TU no matter what we say.
Black Lives Splatter
What? Too soon?
If the edit function becomes available, it looks pretty near perfect to me.
Scumbag: Small-build white make, clean shaven, blue jeans, gray shirt, timberland-type boots, at large.
AME Emmanuel Church, a black church founded nearly 2 centuries ago.
Shit…9 dead so far…white male, shaved head, early 20’s.
Not gonna touch that one…
Make that “clean shaven”…sorry…first reports and all.
TU and TD are fine by me and Edit for sure. I can’g ttpee wirth shit. 😉
Hmm…hovered over one of the comments and it said “you have not permission to unlike”…WTF…have we outsourced the thumbs?
The reason it turned red was because it was giving you the option to take your vote back.
But no one else saw the red. It was just telling you you voted on that comment already.
So now that we’re all transgender capable we can all have a boner?
BFH – Can you just work on the site features as a full time thing from now on? It’s quite a lot of fun just watching it come back to life in front of my eyes.
Excellent job all the way around
thumbs up, sweet
no thumbs, meh, it rides
thumbs down, microaggression?
DO WHATS RIGHT FOR YOUR BLOG
I want it to say “Comment makes me wet”
Well that comment definitely gives me a boner…just working through all the “newness”…
I’m laughing like hell at the “Comment gives me a boner” !! But I’m afraid to give anybody a thumbs up until I’m sure you won’t change it again. lol
Did you jump in a lake…last time I checked “e-talk daily” you were still functionally male so you couldn’t have experienced dampness…Joey Biden…is this you sockpuppeting again?
Caitlyn, that’ll work too. 😉 I mean you can have both, a boner or a wet spot.
Did anyone catch the first segment of “The Five” today? Dana it was shockingly hilarious: http://therightscoop.com/the-five-explodes-after-dana-perino-accuses-eric-bolling-of-covering-for-trump-just-to-get-on-his-show/
How about a
“Report To The NSA” button?
I love that in the middle of the voting process I could write – This comment is idiotic! and just turn the entire thing on its head.
Okay. What do people want the clickable box to say? We’re going to have to keep it that way.
So, think carefully.
People who liked this comment—>
Thumbs up ——->
Uptwinkles —–>
Hear! Hear! —->
Ditto ——>
Golf Clap —–>
How about a Pelosi button?
You have to push it to see what you get…
How about
Oonda-gleeben-glouten-globen?
I aslo suggest:
WTF?
Seriously Dude?
&
Negro Please?
“Like:”
K.I.S.B.F.H
Agreed. I can see trolls coming here to see how many thumbs down they can get as a sport.
Also, Thumbs down lets the lefty lurkies be lazy and just TD instead of engaging in dialog. Who would know if it was trolls or regulars TDing? As it was, we knew the honest feedback from the need to post.
I don’t like the thumbs down because idiot OCD progtards hit threads and just systematically thumbs down everyone regardless of comment content.
Def Leppard are offended at your microagression on this reply.
Oops. it auto-filled my old gravatar name and I didn’t catch it.
“Up Twinkles?” Seriously??
What the hell is wrong with you???
BFH Go thumbs up. Go anything but “reply” in red. And when you click on it it says “Cancel reply.” WTF?
Get with the program! It needs up-twinkles!
How about ‘fabulous’
you know where you can stuff your “uptwinkles”
red headlines burn my eyebones….
Moe – I like the reply option. It keeps the thread more focused because it is a response to an existing comment. The “cancel reply” just lets you decide to delete your reply if you decide you don’t want to comment on the existing comment.
I think it has the same option on the normal comment box that just says “cancel” or “cancel comment”.
LOL – I should have hit the reply button in your comment Moe.
At least my mistake shows the advantage of a “reply” button.
TU and TD.
I might not have time to reply to a comment I disagree with.
No.
“John Wayne would hump your leg”
IIRC “UpTwinkles ” originated at Occupy gatherings.
Which I detest,
I agree.
I can’t think of anything unfoolish to say. “Like” is good! Keep it simple.
Try a “Thumbs Up” in green and a “Middle Finger” in red.
If nothing else, it would be unique and absolutely unequivocal.
NO! puts more responsibility on the blogger to monitor, just what Big Brother wants.
aaathere is something wrong here. I just thumbed myself up on three comments. WTF?
I’m so impressed with BFH and the IOTWr team keeping the website going after getting sabotaged, while making improvements at the same time – BRAVO!
Keep just the thumbs up. It reflects the popularity of the comment and the thumbs down is not really necessary. The reply is nice and works well.
One day I found out I could down thumb people repeatedly. So I did.
OMG did they get pissed. Don’t let anyone tell you they can take multiple thumbs
Down. They can not take it.
Brad used to get super pissed.
I am amazed too. That is some fantastic work you did, are doing, BFH!! Like a magic trick, it’s hard to believe you could do all that is such a short time. Kudos!
Moe – your comments were so worthy that the software knew to let you give yourself a thumbs up.
And I have to agree with 99th that it is amazing that you were able to improve the site significantly while getting it up and running again in less than 48 hours.
If I’m elected president, you’re in charge of IT for the federal govt. I hate to punish ya like that but it’s your patriotic duty.
HE IS BATMAN!!!!!
I love thumb ups, hate thumb down. Trolls use thumb down only and then run away. It makes me not want to comment.
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Waaa, someone stole me!
Oh, here I am. Whew.
Agree, MJA. Almost makes me not want to comment. TDs are childish.
TD is the new TU!
Yes, I really do like the Reply button!
Sometimes when a person just comments about the story, the commenter above them thinks they are making a comment about what they just said.
Reply might just save a Hatfield/McCoy thing happening…or start one!
Only problem with “Like” is that it’s too Facebook-ee. I Hate Facebook.
How about “Agree”?
I happen to know of a website that could use a lot of help. However, It may take IT expertise just to dismantle the bugger!
Great job Fur!
Besides the Thumbs Up, there should be a Thumbs Down. However, the TD would not register. A small notation below with Vegas style flashing arrows would say “Scratch and Sniff” and Up Twinkle hands would pop up during rollover. This would keep a troll busy for hours! At least they would know what an LCD monitor smells like when you scratch through the surface…
Like the new look Fur. And no td. But EDIT would be nice!
Definitely thumbs up with a count,
like before. Also 5-minute edit to correct errors and improve readability. Can take or leave thumbs down (although there were times in the past when I REALLY wanted it).
WOW – just discovered edit is back!
Using it to add this P.S.
Thank you, thank you!
: )
TU and TD aside for the moment, the “Edit” feature saves one from looking like a total doofus many times *looks upward while whistling.*
Remember when LIBTARDIAN DISQUS cancelled the negative vote (a down arrow) their service had? The majority believed it was because leftist comments, meant to sway the discussion, were being overwhelming panned. The poor dears were trying to CONTROL messages via coments and righties weren’t having any of it.
I feel like a kindergartener at Breitbart; you’re not allowed to hurt anyone’s feelings, so therefore, the down arrows don’t register. I guess they’re still there to make you feel better when you vehemently disagree and mash one down – even though it doesn’t register.
turn your screen around…..
I like both the thumbs up and thumbs down.
I like the thrill of Noteworthy Comment and..the agony of no thumbs up.
I like edit, because coffee
I don’t care about TD, but I won’t be hitting it
I thought it was fine the way you had it.. why change it now?
Ricky,
we were blown up on Tuesday.
There was no site, nothing, nada, a ghost- wait, not even a ghost.
Our server in Canada decided to go postal and blew up his little piece of the internet.
In a fit of anger and adrenaline and divine intervention, I got this site up and running within hours.
But I had to rebuild it from scratch, a shell template.
The commenting system was built by someone other than me back in the day.
Since there is no previous server I have no idea what the system was.
So we have this.
I think it’s better.
We have thumbs up, no downs.
We have edit feature for readers, and we have reply nesting.
Now if I could just get rid of this highlighted box around post author’s comments I’d be thrilled.
it’s like voting republican in the last fews elections
Fur’s plug-in is actually owned by a Soros conglomerate
do whatever is the easiest & the cheapest ..things can be different in the future, perhaps ..
Mr. Hat,
Your efforts (and those who assisted you) have been Herculean – and I don’t mean that in any hyperbolic sense.
Thank you.
Why isn’t there a conservative server out there, somewhere?
The “Conserver” so to speak? Is it expensive? What does it entail?
(I’m a retired plumber, not an IT guy)
Missed IOTW while it was offline, and glad you are back! I like thumbs up/down. After a given number of thumbs down, the post could be removed, too.
BFH
Thumbs up is just fine….the thumbs down as we have seen in past history will only draw out the repulsive trolls with nothing to add to conversation i.e. Hines
Just remember, if you have TDs, the law of liberaldom requires you to maintain a “safe room” with puppies, rainbows, sippy cups of liberal Koolaid, and drum circles for the triggered ones.
You’re a bold one, Mr. BFH, a veritable Phoenix rising from the ashes! Keep the faith.
Your tenacity reminds me of a quote I saw while searching on a military database website. It is attributed to USMC Lt. Gen. “Chesty” Puller at Guadalcanal, “All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us…they can’t get away this time!”
Does it cost more?
AYFKM?
Nice job, Fur!
I like this format better than the previous one. It seems simpler to navigate, with less distractions.
I could do without the TD button, but maybe an Agree/Disagree option would be an acceptable alternative?
I also like the Noteworthy Comment highlights.
I find the page numbering system cumbersome.
It is difficult to revisit an earlier post, because the page nos. change quite often.
If the page numbers accrued from day one (rather than today’s date) this might work better.
Keep up the good work- we rely on you!
What I’d really like to see is a nose-thumb…
L.O.V.E. H.A.T.E.
That’s the way I will do it when I rule the tubes.