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> Someone who has a pending comment will have to wait till it goes live to post another. As currently stated, if a comment's never endorsed out of pending, the
by molecule 13y ago
> Someone who has a pending comment will have to wait till it goes live to post another.
As currently stated, if a comment's never endorsed out of pending, the commenter will never be able to post again?
- thaumaturgy 13y agoThis sounds like a feature, not a bug. :-)
- robinh 13y agoExcept if you post a comment in a dead thread, your account is practically banned from participating again.
- yew 13y agoIt breaks down for threads that only ever get a single viewer (who comments). At least, I don't get the impression that this update is intended to prevent such posts regardless of content (eg a reference to a related paper on some obscure topic).
- pg 13y agoWith the current settings, a comment has a day to make it out of pending. If you delete a pending comment, it's no longer pending.
- negrit 13y agoIs there a 'pending mention' for the author of the comment ?
- networked 13y agoIf the comment doesn't make it out of pending in a day, what happens to it and its poster then? Edit: Deletion is currently possible for less than that (2 hours?). Will this be different for pending comments?
- pg 13y agoYes, deletion is possible for a pending comment as long as it's pending.
- networked 13y agoI see. You said above that a comment only has a day to make it out of pending. Why not auto-delete it when it doesn't? Edit: Never mind that question. Based on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7446005 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7446005 this seems to be the case (i.e., you won't have to delete a failed pending comment manually). On a related note, the new system may prevent people from posting in the feature suggestion thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363). Since it's already a special thread that never closes for comments perhaps comments posted there should not be made pending.
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- sliverstorm 13y agoHow long is the immutable timeout? I've never timed it, but I have a hunch that comments lose their delete-ability in less than 24 hours. So please be sure that pending comments can be deleted for the entire duration of their 24hr pend state.
- pg 13y agoDon't worry, they can.
- gus_massa 13y agoI like the idea of pending comments, but I don't like encouraging the deletion of the unsuccessful pending comments. Especially in the low flow threads. I suppose that the 24 hours is a parameter that is easy to change and tweak. I think it's a lot of time. What about 1 or 2 hours? Another possible idea is to have up to two pending comments, so someone can contribute in two threads, go to work/eat/sleep, and read the replies. But this version is more difficult to implement and more difficult to explain.
- Zenst 13y agoYou need to add a cool off timer of say 5 minutes still even if you delete a pending post, otherwise can bet somebody will abuse this to churn up there system DOS style. There be dragons out there. Also some visiable indication on near the user/logoff part of the page indicating if can post or awaiting approval of a pend - say a "+" indicating can add a post and a "-" indicating you can't as have pending post.
- negrit 13y agoThat might increase by a lot the number of new account created by people who don't want to wait to comment.
- pg 13y agoWe already have pretty good protections against that from years of spammers and voting rings trying it.
- noonespecial 13y agoI'm guessing there's an implied "in that thread" to that particular rule. I'd still rather see a timeout than give people only one shot at a thread.