wliebman

I’ve noticed that the fullscreen margins vary depending on the theme. They’re fine using a simple theme like Twenty-Eleven, not so good using a more complex theme like Thesis. In Thesis, changing them is not a simple problem.

Camu,

I’ve continued following this thread with interest. I’ve implemented the advanced comment option on my website, of course, being one of the instigators. I tested it yesterday, having a couple of subscribers make comments and report back to me. Both checked the “replies only” option. For one, it worked like a charm. But the other keeps getting emails of my replies to everyone else’s comments, not just replies to his own comment. He doesn’t get emails when other subscribers comment, just my replies to them.

I’m running the current views of WordPress and the plugin. I do use the WordPress moderation system in that anyone commenting for the first time must have their comment approved. But the two testers above are veteran commenters.

Hope this helps.

Yes, I think the former–replies to any comment the subscriber makes. It’s simpler, and more inclusive. If as a reader I made a second or third comment, I’d be interested in replies to those as well.

(I think you might want to make it clear to the commenter that this is the case, to save him signing up for replies again if he comments again.)

Really looking forward to this and very grateful you’re working on it.

Everybody wins ?? The option to disable is brilliant. When this is implemented, you will have made a popular and excellent plugin more popular and more excellent, even Indispensable.

BTW, what I find problematic in Intense Debate is that it’s intrusive. The commenter has to jump through hoops, or at least wade through a puddle, to make a comment. The elegance of Comments Reloaded is its transparency–it does what it does without calling attention to itself. Much control on the back end for the administrator, a sense of effortlessness on the front end for the commenter.

Can’t wait.

And thanks.

I’ve been looking for a plugin that would offer exactly this option–subscription to replies only, not to all comments. So far, Intense Debate is the only one I’ve found, and it’s as you say, a dropdown that gives the commenter three subscribing options: Subscribe to a) none b) replies c) all comments. There’s nothing confusing about it. (But I find Intense Debate problematic in other areas.)

As a commenter, sometimes I’m only interested in replies to my own comments. I don’t want my email box inundated with stuff I don’t care to see.

On my own blog, I always respond to comments, and I tell my readers this when I encourage them to comment. A subscription to replies option would enable them to see my response to them without their having to come back to the website, find the post again, and scroll down. I’m always interested in making things easier for readers, and for encouraging them to comment.

Perhaps a second comment might cause some confusion, but 2nd comments are the exception, not the rule, and I think the trade off would be well worth it.

I hope you re-consider implementing this option. I’d gladly pay for it.