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Your comment sections suck

jamesindevon

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Can I ask you to rethink your comment sections? The software is seriously insulting.

Firstly it asks you to comment. Then it complains there's a URL in the comment, even though there isn't. Then it makes you wait 120 seconds to see if you've managed to change whatever it thinks is a URL. (It could be a squiggle, or a non-ASCII character).

Finally it tells you it won't accept a comment on an "older" article (about six weeks old) unless you have enough reputation.

WHY ON EARTH DIDN'T IT TELL ME THAT INITIALLY?

Can you please do rate-limiting last, and permanent reasons why I can't comment first (ideally before I've typed a word)?
 

Annie_M

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Can I ask you to rethink your comment sections? The software is seriously insulting.

Firstly it asks you to comment. Then it complains there's a URL in the comment, even though there isn't. Then it makes you wait 120 seconds to see if you've managed to change whatever it thinks is a URL. (It could be a squiggle, or a non-ASCII character).

Finally it tells you it won't accept a comment on an "older" article (about six weeks old) unless you have enough reputation.

WHY ON EARTH DIDN'T IT TELL ME THAT INITIALLY?



Can you please do rate-limiting last, and permanent reasons why I can't comment first (ideally before I've typed a word)?

What kind of URL were you trying to post?
 

HelloNNNewman

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Sometimes there is a glitch where members see some sort of reference to a reputation level (which isn’t employed here) or some other strange error. I would suggest clearing cache and see if that fixes the error. We are actually in process of some big changes, but until those are released - apologies for any inconveniences you may have had when posting.
 

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