Comment Editing Should Work Now, Our Tech People Tell Me

My quick test also suggests that it works, but if some of you can check and let me know, that would be great. Thanks, and sorry that the editing feature was down for a while.

Comments

[Chumby]

Will see if it works.

Yes it does.

[Brett Bellmore]

I hardly think it’s your fault.

But it’s nice to have it working again.

Now if they could fix the block quote bug?

[David Nieporent]

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Now if they could fix the block quote bug?

I was just going to test if that was fixed too.

EDIT: It was not, but I could edit the post to correct the problem!

[Josh R]

Testing

How did you edit the post to make it work? My edits leave the problem as is.

[Brett Bellmore]

The blockquote bug only shows up if the blockquote is the very first t thing in your comment. Even a leading period, like David used, will keep it from showing up.

[Josh R]

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The blockquote bug only shows up if the blockquote is the very first t thing in your comment. Even a leading period, like David used, will keep it from showing up.

Thanks!

[mydisplayname]

Thank God Almighty. My typing, spelling, and punctuation ain't what it ought to be. I once joked that in school, males were not allowed to take typing classes but were allowed to dictate to females in the typing classes: the female to whom I was speaking replied that she was required to come into work early so she could perform dusting and cleaning tasks before males arrived. [She wins, though, as she was employed in Hiroshima and was dusting furniture in her employer's bank when...]

[Brett Bellmore]

Yeah, I used to be top notch at that, but between chemo and aging, my output is a real mess these days, and sometimes I don't catch it before hitting "post".

[PMBug]

Can you hear me now? /Reason Wireless

[umeier]

Testing Edit – pre-edit

Adding post-edit

[Dan Schiavetta]

"As you all know, I'm your County Kimball, Hank Agent. No, I don't believe I am. I'm, eh Hank Kimball, your County Agent. Yes, that sounds better. Well, not better..."

From the classic TV show "Green Acres".

We're all Hank Kimball these days, our concentration ravaged by the internet. We rarely can finish a sentence without amending or correcting it. Without the edit function we can do little better than gibberish.

[Mr. Bumble]

Speak for yourself.

[Brett Bellmore]

Personally, mine got ravaged by spending months repeatedly being poisoned almost to death. "Doesn't cross the blood brain barrier" my ass.

[BadLib]

Hopefully the bug was introduced while making changes preparing for the rollout of a “collapse comment and, recursively, all below” button on each comment at any level ????

(And bonus points if that feature also allows one to set a “collapse hidden comments and all below” setting in one’s profile.)

That would be much more convenient than opening (in FF) the ‘Inspector’ tab on the Developer Tool window and deleting the DOM list item element(s) for the comments, and replies under, that I’m not interested in – while being careful not to inadvertently refresh the page so everything reappears.

Perhaps I could write a Greasemonkey script to do some/all of this but I've not looked at Greasemonkey since some big FF changes several years ago broke it and many extensions - albeit many of those now work again.

(Most of the comments, and ancestors, I completely skip are those from the few users I’ve hidden. Such as the not so good Reverend and the Queen – at least Frank’s comments can occasionally be somewhat amusingly snarky rather than just content free hate so he’s not hidden.)

[Mr. Bumble]

Prof. Volokh:

Thanks for your efforts to get edit working again. Not to sound ungrateful but when might we expect the changes promised in "Heads up"?

I used to be able to see my comments but haven't been able to in quite some time. Don't know about muted users since I never mute anyone.

Thanks and Happy New Year!

[DaveM]

Testing edits with embedded html format tags: bold, italic, underline, emphasize, superscript, subscript.

Edits with embedded block html tags:

blockquote

[DaveM]

None of the block level html tags (OL, UL, BLOCKQUOTE) survive an edit, and need to be recreated. Underline does not survive an edit. Super- and subscript are not supported at all.

The problem is that the code used to fetch a comment and present it for editing is not using the same html filtering rules as the code which accepts the comment and saves it.

But editing words does, indeed, work. And all the people rejoiced!

[Brett Bellmore]

Are they still mangling links when inserting their “nofollow” code?

Testing.

Well, they ARE still inserting the nofollow code. But it's not breaking the links this time, at least.

[jdgalt1]

I’ll give it a try.

If this version sticks then it works.