Moderating Comments

[luedon]

Today (4th June 2019) it would appear that we are down to one dump of comments per day after a batch of them has been moderated to eliminate the spam. The comments section used to be one of the best features of Literotica, but now it has lost its value as a conversation point and as a method of finding the best stories.

Conversations between commenters were great on a story which drew controversial views and which could be debated back and forth when the comments were posted in real time. No more, as there is such a long wait before a comment is posted and then another long wait before a response may be seen (if anybody now bothers to respond).

One of the best features of the Literotica site used to be the Public Comments Portal where the most recent fifteen comments on all category stories were posted. It gave an excellent way of finding the stories which readers had found interesting, regardless of category. It changed frequently and every comment in every category appeared for a period on the portal.

Now, the page with its fifteen comments sits on the site unchanged for maybe a whole day, but most comments don't appear on the page because there are far more than fifteen stories in each dump and most of them overflow the fifteen on the page.

The cure has been worse than the disease. If the moderators won't use a spam filter to give us real-time spamless posting of the comments, then do the real-time posting anyhow and we the readers will just have to ignore the ladies who will "delight you if you phone this number".

 

[luedon]

A larger Public Feedback Portal?

The Public Feedback Portal has the list of the fifteen Most Recent Comments made by readers about all the stories on the Literotica site. As comments are now updated only a few times per day, would it be possible to extend this list to perhaps thirty or larger?

The Public Feedback Portal is one of the most useful features of the Literotica site, as the readers' comments from all categories stories are listed there. The comments are interesting in their own right, but they also help in deciding which stories are worth reading, regardless of category.

Fifteen was adequate when the comments were posted in real time but. unfortunately, each batch of comments when posted is now far more than fifteen, so most of them overflow and don't get published in the list of Most Recent Comments. A much larger list would be more helpful and make the list far more useful for the reader.

The ideal would be for each complete batch of comments to be published in the same way that the New Stories is a list of unlimited length. Just as the New Stories list is extremely useful in finding the latest stories of interest, so too would an ulimited New Comments list be extremely helpful.