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i like this, thanks!
I was psyched about this idea until I realized you have to enter your “exact” name. Since I change mine everyday, it would mean stopping that, which scares me.
@OnThe$20Coin_GitEmSteveDave: Are you sure about that? No matter what screen name you’re using, whenever I click on it, it takes me to /GetEmSteveDave
@Alexander Saites: Yeah, but from what I understand, this scans the blogs for @NAME comments, so I would have to update everyday, and sometimes twice a day.
@OnThe$20Coin_GitEmSteveDave: In that case, I’m not positive I’ll work for me, due to the space. I wasn’t notified of your reply — which doesn’t seem promising. I can’t change my screen name on here, but I may be able to register a name with a space on the site (goes to do that . . .)
@Alexander Saites: What you and every Facebook user should have done from the start. /rant
Yeah, it seems to be killing on the spaces. Forgot the “%20″ in the script?
@ViperBorg – SpaceBat hates Facebook: “What you and every Facebook user should have done from the start. /rant”
Why? Consumerist allows them to comment with their FB accounts.
Why isn’t this just built into the commenting system to begin with? Even the default commenting system in Expression Engine (which my dinky little blog that no-one’s ever even heard of runs on) has this built right in.
As it is now, I just subscribe to the RSS feed for the comments on any article I’m interested in follow-ups on. I kinda find that a little better than an email, anyway.
@Hank Scorpio: Maybe we can include the functionality in the next redesign.
@Ben Popken: there was something similar posted on lifehacker a few weeks ago, similar complaints came up, and a similar agreement was reached – gawker needs to redesign the site based around the actual content, not the ability to add more advertising space
@gStein: My objective is for content to be king in our next, post-Gawker-platform, site redesign.
@Hank Scorpio: You make it sound so easy, but you have a team of people being motivated by a guy in Tom Landry’s hat, who is promising doughnuts and the possibility of MORE doughnuts AND hammocks!
All Ben can offer is the Denver Broncos
@OnThe$20Coin_GitEmSteveDave:
Well, that and a Doomsday device!
@Hank Scorpio: From the man himself.
This is great — thanks!
My legions of detractors may want me exempt from this feature.
Awesome! I know over at Jezebel, we’ve been asking for this for forEVER!
@Vanilla5: It works for Jezebel too!!
Hey, someone comment on my comment to test this, please?
@ColoradoShark: Quit blaming the customer! Slow news day? This is old news! Why does anyone still shop at (insert retailer here)? Who eats at (insert restaurant here) anyway?
@Coach Cal Is My Dream Weaver: Yay, it works! I hope you don’t get banned for that comment!
@ColoradoShark: Hopefully it was tongue in cheek enough to evade the banhammer.
@Coach Cal Is My Dream Weaver: I eat at (insert restaurant here) and in its defense they make an ecellent (insert transfat food)!
Get this guy a Nobel prize!
Does commenter name mean user name or the name that appears when you comment? Because mine are different.
What happens when Consumerist is no longer supported on the Gawker platform, and goes it’s own Consumers Union-led way?
@humphrmi: World explodes? I dunno. I like the Gawker platform, honestly. But as this isn’t a Gawker site anymore (that still hurts), who knows?
@ViperBorg – SpaceBat hates Facebook: On an added note, I really liked the inter-connectivity between the sites.
This is nice, but I just check my Profile every time I read the site. The only thing I’ve noticed is sometimes when I click on my comment to see replies is that it doesn’t always take me directly to my comment. Is that a glitch?
How many times has the comment “system” broken? How many times have people’s @replies gone to the wrong comment? Seriously, this blog would get so many more comments if you actually had a built-in comment system integrated like WordPress, Drupal, etc. Don’t make it hard for us users to comment and subscribe to comments, etc.