Well, crap. I have no idea why or when it happened but the Threshold setting when using Threaded-TOS appears to be non-functional at the moment. It's supposed to set the value below which a comment and any of its subcomments will be collapsed, unless a subcomment is over the Breakthrough value which should cause that comment only to be expanded. Right now it's functioning as if Threshold were set to 6. I never noticed it because I have both settings set to -1.
I can't monkey with it right this second but I'll see if I can get it fixed some time this weekend. Just a hotfix patch to the live code not a full site update.
Beats doing construction work in the rain I suppose.
Update: Okay, I can't fix something that ain't broke and TOS is functioning as intended. I just forgot that Threshold applied only to top-level comments, all subcomment trees should be collapsed by default, and Breakthrough was the setting for subcomments to show up no matter what. This doesn't make sense to me but then I'm not the one who decided it should function like that and I don't use TOS. If you lot want it to function differently or want a new mode that's similar, drop your insipid inspired ideas here and if there's enough demand I'll put it on the todo list.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Saturday January 18 2020, @05:49PM (8 children)
MS planted some kind of propagating poison pill intended only for their discontinuation of Windows 7 support after January 14 and it got loose.
/s
> Beats doing construction work in the rain I suppose.
I'll give you that. Now I'm trying to decide which is worse: rain or the equivalent in snow...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 18 2020, @06:32PM
That's just metafuckingtastical I think!
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 18 2020, @08:19PM
Why would either result in failure to achieve an erection?
(Score: 1) by szopin on Sunday January 19 2020, @03:15PM (2 children)
>> Beats doing construction work in the rain I suppose.
>
>I'll give you that. Now I'm trying to decide which is worse: rain or the equivalent in snow...
Snow every time, it makes the temperature go closer to 0 (not fahrenheit) and can be managed vs getting soaked with no recourse
(Score: 1) by szopin on Sunday January 19 2020, @04:19PM (1 child)
Shit just noticed it looks like snow is worse, EDIT: snow is better, rain is worse
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Sunday January 19 2020, @11:11PM
Yeah, I got what you meant. I think it depends on what you're doing. Some work requires precision finger dexterity, and my premise was that it's colder if snowing. I've done work in the rain with tools getting wet, but they survived. I've also done work in the snow, and somehow it melts on me and I end up wet either way, but the fingers are much colder. So yes, you make an excellent point, and I'll add it may depend on the kind of work.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday January 20 2020, @02:43PM (1 child)
Thanks, jerk. Now it's snowing.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Monday January 20 2020, @03:28PM
Yeah, sorry. It was a fairly secret crowdsourcing experiment- we got everyone to turn on their heat, open all windows and doors, and the updraft sent the snow your way. Blame the tradewinds.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Monday January 20 2020, @03:38PM