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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @12:09AM (17 children)
> I never noticed it because I have both settings set to -1.
To TMB -- can you see how many soylentils browse at anything other than -1? My guess is very few. The only time I change the threshold is for stories with hundreds of comments.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @12:34AM (1 child)
If you don't log in, default is 0/2.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @01:59AM
Correct, I'm logged in and defaulting to -1 (but have the AC box checked).
(Score: 2) by edIII on Sunday January 19 2020, @02:35AM (9 children)
My default is 0. Although I quite often change it to -1 if it seems I'm missing mismoderated posts.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 19 2020, @08:25AM (8 children)
if I don't read at -1/-1 I feel like I'm missing something
(Score: 1) by szopin on Sunday January 19 2020, @04:29PM (7 children)
Yeah, the opposing opinion, sadly SN is just like reddit a hivemind, even worse as if you want to keep your mod points you better behave or they will mod you out of the mod pool, on reddit you can keep posting no matter how many downvotes your comment got
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 19 2020, @09:13PM (6 children)
You can here too. Anyone who's been here a month or more and isn't mod-banned gets ten points a day unless they have "willing to moderate" unchecked in their settings, karma has nothing to do with it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by szopin on Sunday January 19 2020, @09:20PM (5 children)
Is it broken on firefox? I click this button and it just reloads the page with button at top, used to get a dropdown so assumed that's what broke it?
(Score: 3, Touché) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 19 2020, @09:43PM (4 children)
No, works fine in Firefox. It redirects you to the page you just left, to an anchor at the comment with the highest cid that you moderated. You don't get a message, just returned to where you left off with your shiny, new moderation applied to the comment.
PSA: You can select several moderations on the same page and just click any Moderate button to moderate them all at once.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1) by szopin on Sunday January 19 2020, @09:49PM
Doesn't work for me, I really thought it was because I dropped under 10 karma, it just brings the 'moderate' button to the top of the page and that's it
(Score: 1) by szopin on Sunday January 19 2020, @10:58PM (2 children)
Ok, forget it, I'm retarded
(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Monday January 20 2020, @02:50AM (1 child)
And here you are, fitting right in..
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 1) by szopin on Monday January 20 2020, @03:27AM
Omg, you have an issue admitting it? We have a live one guys!!!
(Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 19 2020, @04:01AM (3 children)
A slight plurality browse at 0 Threshold with -1 being barely behind it and about ten percent or so using all the other numbers combined. Not sure how many use TOS vs. TNG though.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by DavePolaschek on Sunday January 19 2020, @02:21PM
Not a real soylentil. 2: Threaded-TNG. I have to click to see AC comments.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by maxwell demon on Sunday January 19 2020, @04:13PM (1 child)
Are there any plans to add a DS9 mode? :-)
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday January 19 2020, @04:28PM
Well, there weren't until now. Congrats on picking the name of the next comments view mode.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by deimtee on Sunday January 19 2020, @08:41AM
I have a complicated preference set where everything except spam gets a +1 boost, then I set the level at zero. Still see everything except comments modded spam.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.