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Post by
dawg
After the release of MoP, quite a few of the comments on for example spells are outdated. An example is for
Mind Spike
. Most of them are somewhat relevant to the 4.x versions of WoW, but obsolete now. So I wanted to suggest that maybe you guys could add a "filter" function to comments, so that I could filter out comments that is for previous expansions (4.x, 3.x) in my own comment view by default.
Tho.. As I'm writing this i see a few problems if you do this, since it mostly relates to spells.. Oh well! I'll put it out there anyways! <3
Post by
asakawa
You can filter comments by patch, you can order by date-descending and you can downrate obsolete info to help others looking for the same stuff. If a comment was good but is now misleading due to changes in the game then we'd
most
appreciate people using the "out of date" button above each comment so that we can archive the comments and preserve the rating the user earned when their comment was useful.
Post by
Balgair
If a comment was good but is now misleading due to changes in the game then we'd
most
appreciate people using the "out of date" button above each comment so that we can archive the comments and
preserve the rating the user earned when their comment was useful
.
About the bolded part: Is out-of-date supposed to prevent further downvotes altogether then? I'd always assumed that it would, yet one of my comments has been downvoted after I marked it out of date, which has left me a bit confused. See
http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=6742#comments:id=1710899
- it was at 0 rating when I flagged it out of date (had been at +5 before I noticed it was no longer valid)
Post by
CalaelenDT
Flagging a comment as out-of-date doesn't instantly remove it, it requires multiple people to vote on it as out-of-date and than a Moderator to actually mark the comment as archived. This can take quite a while depending on how many others have reported it, so it's possible that a few weeks have passed between your out-of-date vote and it actually getting archived as such, in which time people could've downvoted it.
The other possibility is that for some reason someone decided to downrate your comment even after it was deleted for archivation, which while rather pointless, isn't an unintended feature or against any "code of voting" as far as I am aware.
That being said, I personally never downvote archived comments, nor do I downvote comments that I have marked as out-of-date, because I think the person who made the comment deserves the rating they received for their helpful contribution, even if it is no longer useful due to game changes.
Post by
Sas148
If a comment was good but is now misleading due to changes in the game then we'd
most
appreciate people using the "out of date" button above each comment so that we can archive the comments and
preserve the rating the user earned when their comment was useful
.
About the bolded part: Is out-of-date supposed to prevent further downvotes altogether then? I'd always assumed that it would, yet one of my comments has been downvoted after I marked it out of date, which has left me a bit confused. See
http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=6742#comments:id=1710899
- it was at 0 rating when I flagged it out of date (had been at +5 before I noticed it was no longer valid)
Hmm, evidently people can still vote on archived comments (tested). I don't personally think that was intended but I am actually not at all sure on that one. In my opinion they'd be frozen entirely. I'll leave it to others who may know to answer that.
Post by
asakawa
I don't
think
it's intended for users to be able to rate comments after they've been archived but I'll look into it. Thanks for letting me know about it!
Post by
CalaelenDT
I never gave it much thought that voting on archived comments was an issue as I assumed no one would bother with it, but I guess if the feature is purely intended for historical value then it does seem out of place to be able to keep voting on it.
Post by
Balgair
Flagging a comment as out-of-date doesn't instantly remove it, it requires multiple people to vote on it as out-of-date and than a Moderator to actually mark the comment as archived. This can take quite a while depending on how many others have reported it, so it's possible that a few weeks have passed between your out-of-date vote and it actually getting archived as such, in which time people could've downvoted it.
Just so you know, if you mark your
own
comment as out-of-date, it'll archive it immediately (I remember seeing that mentioned here a while back as a useful feature so people who spot one of their posts is outdated can use that to avoid downvotes on previously good comments), and that was what happened here: it visibly went the yellowy colour and went to the bottom of the page as soon as I flagged it.
@ the mods above, thanks for looking into it! Also thanks for the upvotes assuming it was you guys, makes me feel a bit better about the rep on that one (but please nobody else upvote it, I don't want to look like I'm fishing for upvotes on what is after all, hopelesslessly outdated ;-)). If it's intended, then that's fair enough btw, just took me by surprise a bit!
Post by
CalaelenDT
I didn't notice you were talking about out-of-dating your own comment, in addition I also didn't know flagging your own comment as out-of-date archived it immediatly, so thanks for sharing that!
If I come across comments I made that are out of date I always just delete them, I'll remember to go for archiving in the future to preserve the info for those who are interested in historical information.
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