[aur-general] [RFC] Limit the height of AUR comments
Hi all, Every now and then, someone will post a huge dump (log, error messages, etc.) to the AUR comments. Besides being usually useless, those comments force everyone to scroll for a while before getting to the next comment. What do you guys think about adding something like this to limit the vertical space taken by such comments?
#news div p { max-height: 10em; overflow: auto; }
If the idea is approved, I can send a proper patch ;] An example of such "dumb dump" can be found at: https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/nvidia-vulkan-beta/?comments=all#comment-5... Cheers, Eric
On Sun, 2016-03-06 at 22:09 +0000, Eric Engestrom wrote:
Hi all,
Every now and then, someone will post a huge dump (log, error messages, etc.) to the AUR comments. Besides being usually useless, those comments force everyone to scroll for a while before getting to the next comment.
What do you guys think about adding something like this to limit the vertical space taken by such comments?
#news div p { max-height: 10em; overflow: auto; }
If the idea is approved, I can send a proper patch ;]
An example of such "dumb dump" can be found at: https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/nvidia-vulkan-beta/?comments=all#comment-5... 438
Cheers, Eric
It's rather frowned upon to post monolithic comments of that nature. Assuming your change makes it so that comments are in their own scrollable box if they're too long, it would be a change I'd be for. We've had this problem a few times and usually comments get deleted or a TU copies and pastes the original comment to pastebin (or similar) and modifies the comment to simply link to it. Mark Weiman
On Mon, 07 Mar 2016 at 06:03:53, Mark Weiman wrote:
[...] It's rather frowned upon to post monolithic comments of that nature. Assuming your change makes it so that comments are in their own scrollable box if they're too long, it would be a change I'd be for. [...]
For dependencies, there is some JavaScript code to collapse long lists. Maybe we could do the same with comments: If a comment gets too long, collapse using JS and add a "Display full comment..." link.
On 06/03, Eric Engestrom wrote:
Every now and then, someone will post a huge dump (log, error messages, etc.) to the AUR comments. Besides being usually useless, those comments force everyone to scroll for a while before getting to the next comment.
What do you guys think about adding something like this to limit the vertical space taken by such comments?
#news div p { max-height: 10em; overflow: auto; }
If the idea is approved, I can send a proper patch ;]
An example of such "dumb dump" can be found at: https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/nvidia-vulkan-beta/?comments=all#comment-5...
Sounds good, though this should be sent to aur-dev, not aur-general. (And I wonder if 15 would be a more apt limit, hmm.) -- Sincerely, Johannes Löthberg PGP Key ID: 0x50FB9B273A9D0BB5 https://theos.kyriasis.com/~kyrias/
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Eric Engestrom
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Johannes Löthberg
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Lukas Fleischer
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Mark Weiman