Comment by pg
12 years ago
With 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.
12 years ago
With 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.
If 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?
Yes, deletion is possible for a pending comment as long as it's pending.
I 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=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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How 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.
Don't worry, they can.
Is there a 'pending mention' for the author of the comment ?
I 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.
You 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.