Commenting Help, Tips, Guides and Rules.
Commenting Help, Tips and Guides
I thought I’d run through some tips and guides about our comments section here. I’ve stickied this post under “About MyNokiaBlog”
Some things I wanted to cover:
HTML capabilities:
The comments are normally plain but if you know how to change HTML you can actually do a few things.
They’re not necessary but in case you ever wanted to. A bit like the Reddit system. The main point is to just the message, but for those in the know they can spice things up.
1) Bold BOLD
This appears as
<strong> BOLD</strong>
Just place the word or part of your comment that you want to appear in bold.
2) Italics Italics
This appears as
<em>Italics</em>
3) Quotes. If you wanted to quote someone
Jay said above:
They’re not necessary but in case you ever wanted to
The tags are
<blockquote>They’re not necessary but in case you ever wanted to</blockquote>
4) Picture
Update: Try this instead
<img src=”imageURL” alt=”" width=”300″ height=”169″ />
You can also insert a picture. But try to keep the dimensions small or we’ll remove them.
This appears as:
<a href=”http://mynokiablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/feed-me-oil.jpg”><img title=”feed me oil” src=”http://mynokiablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/feed-me-oil.jpg” alt=”" width=”304″ height=”177″ />
Just replace the link with the URL of your image. The IMG title is what will appear if your mouse hovers. SRC again is just the link to the image and then you can leave the width and height as that.
5) Headings.
Both headings and colours might make this place a little too busy so I didn’t add it in the original post
<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<h2>Heading 2</h2>
<h3>Heading 3</h3>
<h4>Heading 4</h4>
6) Colours
BLUE YELLOW RED GREEN
<span style=”color: #000080;”>Blue</span>
<span style=”color: #ffff00;”>Yellow</span>
<span style=”color: #ff0000;”>Red</span>
Tip:
Follow up comments/posts
Under your comment box you can see ‘notify me of follow up comments by email’ and ‘notify me of new posts by email’.
If you want to be emailed every time there is a new reply to the thread, click that post. You will get an email where you have to confirm whether you want this. You can edit your subscription there too.
Notify for new posts is useful as every time we post something new, it will appear in full at your email inbox.
General Commenting Rules:
- Post your comment in the right section to keep the discussions on topic.
- Please be respectful of other readers. Don’t use personal attacks and insults.
- It is possible to disagree with someone’s opinions and still be polite about it.
- Yes debates can get heated and some people may annoy you but try to keep a level head
- Please keep the discussions in English
- No ‘trolling’.
- Labelling someone a troll is difficult in itself. Someone that disagrees with your opinion is not automatically a troll
- I define a troll as someone who purposefully posts something antagonistic to try to get a response. Their opinions may not be backed up or they will post this repeatedly in multiple sections.
- No spamming
- This does not usually apply to the readers, more a policy on the automated spam.
- Generally askimet removes spam automatically. It has its own protocol set by askimet on what is spam. Sometimes unfortunately it catches out readers legitimate contents. Let me know and I’ll try and bring it back.
- Spamming may also constitute spamming your message. I don’t care what it is, just post it once.
- Your username is not a place for you to write a message. You may try to be clever and comment normally whilst your spammed username appears everywhere. Please, have some respect.
- Try to keep one username on the board
- No to warez/illegal software/over 18 stuffs
- It’s very rare here (probably once a year if that) but I would like that developers be respected and their work not be spread around for free unless that is their wish.
- Try to keep the language safe for all. Try to avoid cussing/swearing
- Note, I say try. I know for some, it’s just second nature and they might not mean anything by it.
- If you can, try to keep your comments without words you wouldn’t say to a 3 year old, your mother or your boss etc
- Note: Posts with more than 4 links are automatically either sent to spam or sometimes held for moderation.
- You may need to split up posts with multiple links in order to bypass this.
- I may revise these at some points in the future.
Comments Not Appearing:
If a comment is posted and it doesn’t automatically appear, something has gone wrong with the spam filter. Apologies. Please let me know at jay@mynokiablog.com and I will find that in the spambox. More often than not, it has encountered a site it has previously put into spam or an IP address was once of a spammer. You may circumvent this through https://bitly.com/ or try posting again without a link and mention that your previous comments were not going through.
Comment removal
I rarely if at all remove a comment. The only thing I’d remove (and even that is last resort) is reader spam (automated spam that askimet misses will get removed once I see them). I may comment to you to at least give a warning/guidance and may link back to this page to explain. There is no rigid policing of comments here because the majority of our readers are awesome and can self moderate each other.
Anyway, continue as before. You may want to give the comment syntax a go here. Don’t feel you need to use them but in future, if the need arises (e.g. you may want to quote in a discussion) you can do so.
I’ll copy a portion of this in the comments so you can see how it appears below:
Category: Nokia
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HTML capabilities:
The comments are normally plain but if you know how to change HTML you can actually do a few things.
They’re not necessary but in case you ever wanted to. A bit like the Reddit system. The main point is to just the message, but for those in the know they can spice things up.
1) Bold BOLD
This appears as
Just place the word or part of your comment that you want to appear in bold.
2) Italics Italics
This appears as
3) Quotes. If you wanted to quote someone
Jay said above:
The tags are
4) Picture
You can also insert a picture. But try to keep the dimensions small or we’ll remove them.
This appears as:
Just replace the link with the URL of your image. The IMG title is what will appear if your mouse hovers. SRC again is just the link to the image and then you can leave the width and height as that.
Just an example of how this would look in the comments.
Hey Jay. That’s a great example, but isn’t it a little excessive? Wouldn’t one want to in this case install a plugin that copies an image or highlights a portion they want to comment on? Or perhaps a comment on a quote, like in forums?
Yeah, the comment box is very simple. All the good discussions need are people’s thoughtful words.
It’s a little bit like the Reddit system – all you need to write are your thoughts. But for those that know the comment syntax, they can be use the tags available. Cheers
Thx. Keep up good work!
Test
I said:
THX!
Probably won’t work, but it HTML tags are properly formatted in the comments it’s kind a nice.
Back to the Netscape days of the internet with this
Yeah, comments basically only allow the very basic HTML tags. All the more elaborate or layout crashing ones aren’t accepted (rightfully so)
While I’m at it:
Heading 1
Heading 1
Heading 1
Probably also not allowed in the comments though.
I thought it might get a little too busy if people started using headings and different colours. I think a lot of the stuff from the main post works in the comments too. Lemme check.
Heading 1
Heading 2
Heading 3
Heading 4
Blue
Yellow
Red
Tried those tags as well, I know most layout tags anyway because of some website design work I occasionally do. However most raw HTML tags are lost nowadays because I always use CSS for formatting a website anyway.
Let’s try anyway
Heading 1
Probably has something to with rights that you have and I don’t as a plain commenter. Maybe as a logged in user it works better?
heading
I think it’s always been possible in our comments, but I was the only person ever to use it as the tags are a little obscure. Seems some folks on Reddit and TheVerge don’t mind adding HTML tags so I thought our readers might like the option/awareness to know they can do it if they want.
What are the tags for embedding a YT clip directly into the comment section? I’ve tried with simply a link (a la Disqus), various YT embedded codes including the [youtoube=...] one suggested by YT themselves for WordPress blogs, but to no avail…
Just the full URL of the YouTube video. No tags needed.
But sometimes there is a limit so only one video will appear if there are multiple ones in the comments. Others would appear as hyperlink
Jay … please don’t let users turn pictures into links too
it’s very annoying having to reload Mynokiablog by accident tens of times just because the picture you post has links on them , If some one needs the picture you share they can easily access it on any Nokia Device N9 has long press , Belle has show all pictures (and i think long press works too now …) even S40 phones can pull that picture out , so please stop creating a navigation nightmare by adding links to your photos in your post
thanks
@nabkawe , Nokia N9 lovers on facebook …
This place really needs a much better commenting system in general. And photo viewer…
Keep up the good work though.
Sure, I’ll look into it
at the moment,in comparison to other comment system we’ve tried, this one currently is a slightly better fit.
suggestions welcome.
Disqus?
I’m no expert and it’s the only one I know, sorry.
Great work Jay. Lemme test if it can be done by mobile.
NOKIA IS GREAT.
It works. Thnx Jay
Nokia
Nokia
@Jay
What we dearly need…
Is the ability to edit our posts &/or delete them.
Critical in forum-like software IMO.
*BUMP* @Jay
Is editing & or deleting posts possible to implement for wordpress blogs?
No, currently not possible and no plugin there.
Disqus would allow but it’s not a good fit here
The single-most crucial feature/s to have & it doesn’t.
Bizarre & very annoying… TA.
Perhaps in future, wordpress will allow it.
I guess, what I like about it is that once someone says something, it’s there and can’t be changed.
I don’t think that’s really all that important…
Being able to see your thoughts in writing & revise them if you’ve made a mistake or aren’t clear is more important IMO.
As soon as a work around becomes available I’ll implement.
cool.
Lumia 900 and 808 Pureview were displayed on Nokia Malaysia official website.
http://www.nokia.com/my-en/
Any special reason why that’s posted here rather than somewhere more appropriate?
Hello nokia users…
My name is ROHIT.. and I am from INDIA…
I have a big problem with my nokia N8…
It’s mass memory shows 14GB free space, but i cannot store the data upto 13GB. why is it so..???
It gives the following error:-
” WRITE TO DISK FAILED ”
The cellphone is working just f9.. but it gives the above mentioned error..!!
According to you, what might be the actual problem…?
MY handset is of GERMANY and now m living in India, so I went to one of the nokia service centres there I’ve told them about my problem..
They replied : ” If I format my cellphone with O.S. of N8 of India, then, my N8 might get locked & I cannot use it any further..!! ”
Is the above statement made by them correct???
Please help me out friends…!!
Thank You…
does anyone have any info on the new nokia lumia flagship that will replace the 920? i was just wondering if anyone knew. please reply and thank you
Hi Dickhead,
This thread ISN’T for necro-ing people about that kind of thing, read the 1st few sentences in the story, if you’re thinking about the tips thread, even that isn’t supposed be abused by posts like yours.
You post Qns like yours in the latest WP/Lumia related article on the main page, ideally you’d post in one that is 920-centric…
Happy (appropriate) posting.
I just had a question and was wondering if someone had the answer. no need to attack me personally. if im doing something wrong tell me or redirect me, dont call me rude names that hurt my feelings. i will asume you had a bad day and am taking it out on randome people over the internet
Though Blackberry might have won some races but Nokia Lumia 920 is a great phone and its video quality is better than that of Blackberry because Nokia Lumia has Windows operating system.
Yeah, no… you are clueless actually, & a rude spammer.
and you were going so well up until the point that you said “because Nokia Lumia has Windows operating system.”
Video recording is by the most part a hardware thing. video recording on the Lumia 920 is beter mostly because the lens the sensor and especially the image stabilization on the L920 make it so…
Windows operating system is only helping nokia not selling as many terminals as it could since the vast majority of consumers dont like it
Relax Noki, it was just spam
Some of the other threads got hit with the same shit.
Blue
@Jay
What’s the point of the fcking useless WordPress filtering removing SPAM “after” it’s already hit a thread!?! For fcks sake, plz DO SOMETHING about SPAM on this site, it’s a fcking abomination! It’s far worse then any other commenting system I’ve ever experienced (not to mention other shortcomings mentioned here/elsewhere & still not completely rectified).
@James
What gets through is about 0.000001% of the spam that is automatically removed. I manually bin about 30-100 a day.
- Jay
unsubscribing from this thread, so I won’t see any responses if there’s any.
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