view screened comment upon posting in the same manner as unscreened comments

[kate_nepveu]

Title:
view screened comment upon posting in the same manner as unscreened comments

Area:
comments

Summary:
When you post a screened comment, you're taken to a page that says your comment posted, it's screened, and you can view it at this link. This requires an additional click to check the comment for typos, make sure it threaded properly, etc. You should instead be taken to the comment in the same way you would be if it were not screened.

Description:
DW's reply-but-keep-screened setting is awesome but conducting conversations in screened comments is still more cumbersome than it could be because of this intermediate success-but-screened page. The indication on the entry page itself that a comment is screened should be sufficient to notify the commenter.

Poll #11814 view screened comment upon posting in the same manner as unscreened comments

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 63

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Should be implemented as-is.
42 (66.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
4 (6.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
6 (9.5%)

(I have no opinion)
11 (17.5%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[musyc]

I'm really against this for reasons I can't fully identify. Part of it is that I rely on that confirmation page to reassure myself that the comment posted screened, as expected. Removing that confirmatory step would discourage me from commenting on screened posts across the board, because I just wouldn't have that "site is working as intended" sense.

[marahmarie]

Maybe if it sort of 301'd (that is, if it gave you confirmation that you posted as it auto-redirected you to the comment page with your screened comment in place, marked as screened), that would make it more appealing? I'm all for cutting out the middle man on this process, as I hate clicking extra links/waiting for extra pages to load, so the 301-type answer would save all the extra clicking for us, at least.

[kate_nepveu]

I'd have no problem with that.

[triadruid]

I detest interstitials like that.

Oh dear God.

[marahmarie]

What I'm describing is not an interstitial in the classic sense of, "Now here's a message from our website owners" nor, "Now here's some ads from our website's sponsors." It's a redirect. A real quick one. Have you never seen a classic 301? It's the difference between the website redirecting the page so quickly you cannot even stop it, with no messages or ads in between, which is all I'm envisioning, and what most people classically recognize as an "interstitial".

If you're also against classic 301s then my deepest apologies.

*flails*

Re: Oh dear God.

[triadruid]

*shrug* I am perfectly capable of reading a changed tag or field on the comment when it reloads. What I am objecting to is the "Yes we did the thing you asked us to, please wait 1.4 seconds as we reload on you even if you were going to try to do something else".

Does that make more sense? My experience is not everyone's, of course.

[alexbayleaf]

I don't have an example handy, but I'm not sure how visible the notice on the comments page is, so my "with changes" is "making sure that the notification is really clear, perhaps clearer than it currently is".

[kate_nepveu]

In Tropo Purple, there's "(screened)" before and on the same line as the comment hierarchy indicator/subject, in the same font size/color. Also the bar containing that line, the username, and the timestamp is purple not gray.

[susanreads]

+1

[montuos]

+1

[ciaan]

+1