Formatting Comments

UnicornusMalapalapa

I think it would make posting comments a lot easier if we had the option to format. Just being able to bold, underline, use italics, and press enter after a line to separate your paragraphs. It would make things more efficient, and easier to understand.

realItchCat

No support, doesn't seem needed.

Futurebot5

realItchCat wrote:
No support, doesn't seem needed.

Maybe not to you…
OP, can you give some examples?

TheGlassPenguin

Support! It would help with making things stand out in comments without having to use custom fonts.

dhfbei8987

realItchCat wrote:
No support, doesn't seem needed.

Reallly, huh? Example of where it'd be needed:

This is my message title

this is the text that is unnecesarry.

This is my main point.

fdreerf

dhfbei8987 wrote:
This is my message title

this is the text that is unnecesarry.

This is my main point.

And this is the text pointing the reader to the same topic, except older and bigger. Honestly, it feels scummy to do this but finding duplicates is fun

LitYoloSwago

I don't think this is needed… If you take a look at YouTube's comments section, people use the word formats from time to time, and we all know that YouTube's comments section is nothing but repetitive unoriginal jokes. We don't need to increase those kinds of comments here on Scratch.

Rendangbike2

LitYoloSwago wrote:
I don't think this is needed… If you take a look at YouTube's comments section, people use the word formats from time to time, and we all know that YouTube's comments section is nothing but repetitive unoriginal jokes. We don't need to increase those kinds of comments here on Scratch.

And? Just because one thing is another thing, it doesn't mean that the another thing is the same thing.

dhfbei8987

fdreerf wrote:
dhfbei8987 wrote:
This is my message title

this is the text that is unnecesarry.

This is my main point.
And this is the text pointing the reader to the same topic, except older and bigger. Honestly, it feels scummy to do this but finding duplicates is fun

Ok. Reporting for this to be closed lol.

UnicornusMalapalapa

LitYoloSwago wrote:
I don't think this is needed… If you take a look at YouTube's comments section, people use the word formats from time to time, and we all know that YouTube's comments section is nothing but repetitive unoriginal jokes. We don't need to increase those kinds of comments here on Scratch.

That's not necessarily the point. It could be used to emphasize things, and add a different meaning depending on how you use it. It could really help people better understand comments.

ScratchCatHELLO

LitYoloSwago wrote:
I don't think this is needed… If you take a look at YouTube's comments section, people use the word formats from time to time, and we all know that YouTube's comments section is nothing but repetitive unoriginal jokes. We don't need to increase those kinds of comments here on Scratch.

every prisoner has breathed air some time during their life. thus, we need to stop breathing air.

realItchCat

ScratchCatHELLO wrote:
LitYoloSwago wrote:
I don't think this is needed… If you take a look at YouTube's comments section, people use the word formats from time to time, and we all know that YouTube's comments section is nothing but repetitive unoriginal jokes. We don't need to increase those kinds of comments here on Scratch.

every prisoner has breathed air some time during their life. thus, we need to stop breathing air.

On it.

SuperCroc398

UnicornusMalapalapa wrote:
I think it would make posting comments a lot easier if we had the option to format. Just being able to bold, underline, use italics, and press enter after a line to separate your paragraphs. It would make things more efficient, and easier to understand.

Yep, that could work

the2000

ScratchCatHELLO wrote:
LitYoloSwago wrote:
I don't think this is needed… If you take a look at YouTube's comments section, people use the word formats from time to time, and we all know that YouTube's comments section is nothing but repetitive unoriginal jokes. We don't need to increase those kinds of comments here on Scratch.
every prisoner has breathed air some time during their life. thus, we need to stop breathing air.

I agree with this sentiment. Just because x website does something doesn't mean that “Scratch will become x website if we add this!!!”

lovecodeabc

the2000 wrote:
ScratchCatHELLO wrote:
LitYoloSwago wrote:
I don't think this is needed… If you take a look at YouTube's comments section, people use the word formats from time to time, and we all know that YouTube's comments section is nothing but repetitive unoriginal jokes. We don't need to increase those kinds of comments here on Scratch.
every prisoner has breathed air some time during their life. thus, we need to stop breathing air.
I agree with this sentiment. Just because x website does something doesn't mean that “Scratch will become x website if we add this!!!”

I agree 2

MDCCCLXVII

lovecodeabc wrote:
the2000 wrote:
ScratchCatHELLO wrote:
LitYoloSwago wrote:
I don't think this is needed… If you take a look at YouTube's comments section, people use the word formats from time to time, and we all know that YouTube's comments section is nothing but repetitive unoriginal jokes. We don't need to increase those kinds of comments here on Scratch.
every prisoner has breathed air some time during their life. thus, we need to stop breathing air.
I agree with this sentiment. Just because x website does something doesn't mean that “Scratch will become x website if we add this!!!”
I agree 2

I agree too.. no trend satrting this time

Last edited by MDCCCLXVII (March 10, 2021 16:25:18)

UnicornusMalapalapa

LitYoloSwago wrote:
I don't think this is needed… If you take a look at YouTube's comments section, people use the word formats from time to time, and we all know that YouTube's comments section is nothing but repetitive unoriginal jokes. We don't need to increase those kinds of comments here on Scratch.

tbh those jokes are pretty funny

Last edited by UnicornusMalapalapa (Aug. 2, 2021 18:26:14)

CoolLionMan

support, I don't want to use BBcode tags to emphasize something in the comments when it doesn't actually work

qwertykid44

A potential issue that could arise from using this would be the use of newlines to spam comment sections.

To remedy this issue I propose the following workarounds:

Add a dropdown if a comment is over X lines. This way longer comments can be preserved but without restricting shorter ones.
Make newlines count for several characters. Perhaps, say, 50 characters. This allows in a no-content message up to 10 newlines, but obviously there must be content for a newline to render. As such, only 8 newlines would likely ever render in a message. That's fairly manageable.

SpinningCube

qwertykid44 wrote:
A potential issue that could arise from using this would be the use of newlines to spam comment sections.

To remedy this issue I propose the following workarounds:

Add a dropdown if a comment is over X lines. This way longer comments can be preserved but without restricting shorter ones.
Make newlines count for several characters. Perhaps, say, 50 characters. This allows in a no-content message up to 10 newlines, but obviously there must be content for a newline to render. As such, only 8 newlines would likely ever render in a message. That's fairly manageable.

In a dupe I suggested that this be remedied with a scroll bar on long comments

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