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links are a problem ?
I don’t like how the comments are ordered, indented –
hard to follow the discussion
Links are OK. If a comment has too many links it gets flagged as spam. That is a Word Press feature. I just increased the number allowed to 8.
I am ambivalent on nested comments. For a busy blog with a lot of comments like Obama Conspiracy Theories nested comments don’t work very well. That is why Doctor Conspiracy went to a flat discussion format. This blog doesn’t get as much traffic normally. If most folks would prefer a flat discussion format I would be happy to change it.
Since WordPress.com does not have the quote function like Doc’s, nested can be helpful to keep track of wh is responding to who. That said, since I am reading usually from Feedly, I don’t get the advantage of nesting unless. go to the site.
As it is, sometimes the discussion is has so many nested levels, you cannot tell anyway.
Using Markdown’s might make the process of quoting simpler, since it would require one character;
> This would be a quote.
It is also quicker if one wanted to copy the link to the comment. I imagine I would likely not do that much on my iPad, but I might use the Markdown, if they were turned on.
I turned Markdown on. Thanks for the tip.
Cool. I did not know it existed until I went looking around my unused blog and noticed it was an option.
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FYI, here is the quick reference page for Markdown.
As an example, in my response above, all I had to do was the following (Hopefully I will enter the code markdown properly so it displays the code not turns it into HTML).
> [Reality Check said](https://rcradioblog.wordpress.com/comment-policy/comment-page-1/#comment-30108) I turned Markdown on. Thanks for the tip.