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�Rate recent� queue interface � why does rating have to be comment title?


duolian

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When you go through the "Rate selected recent photos" queue, and use

the interface to both rate <i>and</i> comment at the same time, your

rating is automatically inserted as the "title" of your comment.

Thus, your comment ends up looking like this:

 

<blockquote>

<p><b>Aesthetics #, Originality #</b></p>

<p>Comment comment comment comment comment etc.</p>

</blockquote>

 

<p>I really don't care for this. It makes the rating look like the

main input -- there it sits, in bold face and all -- with the comment

as a mere afterthought. That�s not how I intend it. I think that

comments are more important than ratings, and while I like being able

to use the interface to do both things, I don�t like having that

interface spit my comment out with the rating prominently displayed

above it, like that was the most important part of my assessment of

the photo.

 

<p>I know, I know, if you want to change it, you can always go back

to the photo afterward and use the �Edit this comment� feature. But

that�s a pain. Wouldn't it be better for if the "Rate selected

recent photos" queue interface didn't insert the rating as the title

of the comment in the first place? Or at least so that it was

something that the commentor could change if they wanted something

other than the rating as a title?

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Good point David, I'm about as happy discussing rates as I am with talking

about money.

 

Current UI does have one advantage though : at least the recipient knows

you rated it from the queue and couldn't see any text details bar those in the

caption. (including 'please don't rate this image!' written in the main text

detail body.)

 

The insertion of the caption as a header is impossible as some people have

real missives for captions. Perhaps a simple * as default header would do :

the recipient would then know from whence it came.

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