Base it on date then. Discussion within a month gets a tag, if a user looks at it, it get's a check mark in the system that says "looked at X discussion on y"
Fight smart, not fair.Agreed. There's no need to have something complex that would flag it by individual user, but having a color code or a date display would be very helpful.
“I just think that's really shady." "Shady?!" - Stephanie & Chad, The Amazing Race 17Maybe if it only distinguishes replies from periods the last week or 2 weeks? Going 2 weeks without discussion isn't a big deal, but having a reply in the last day or week is.
Infinite Tree: an experimental storyYeah, exactly. Just something to let people know that there's new discussion that they might want to look at.
“I just think that's really shady." "Shady?!" - Stephanie & Chad, The Amazing Race 17The system can also benefit from a way to distinguish whether or not there is any existing discussion. Mediawiki, for example, discussion pages (being ordinary wiki articles in the Talk: namespace) are redlinked until there's actual content posted to it.
An Ear Worm is like a Rickroll: It is never going to give you up.Technically that's true here, too; it's just that a YKTTW counts as discussion.Wait, never mind, this is no longer the case.
edited 4th Jan '11 4:57:59 PM by Micah
132 is the rudest number.Sure it is. The comments button shows up if there is a YKTTW, an archive of comments, or comments. Without any of those, there is no little orange quote bubble thingy.
Goal: Clear, Concise and WittyHuh, I must have misclicked somehow.
In any case, just about every trope is going to have a YKTTW archive, so it's not a very effective signal of active discussion.
132 is the rudest number.Getting a bit off the subject for a moment, but since YKTTW was brought up - is there a way to link the discussion for a ptitle back to its YKTTW? When I created I Don't Pay You To Think, it launched it without the punctuation, so I went around it by creating the punctuated title and then making the original into a redirect, but now there's no discussion link on that page to get the original YKTTW.
edited 4th Jan '11 9:41:52 PM by Agent0042
“I just think that's really shady." "Shady?!" - Stephanie & Chad, The Amazing Race 17You can always just copy the permanent YKTTW link to the ptitle's discussion page as a comment.
Ah, good idea. Did that just now. Thanks.
“I just think that's really shady." "Shady?!" - Stephanie & Chad, The Amazing Race 17

The current discussion system icon for trope / work pages isn't very good. All you see is a little discussion post icon and if you click on t, you may even get a page that says "No Remarks Yet" if there's only archived discussion. As such, a person could post a question about the specifics of a particular trope that could go unnoticed for months unless someone happened to decide to look in.
Proposal: When somebody posts a new message within one of the discussions - there should be a clear indicator of new activity - maybe a lampshade added to the icon or something. Furthermore (if there isn't already, and if there is I don't know of it), there should be a member to track responses to these discussion posts, or receive e-mail notice of replies.
“I just think that's really shady." "Shady?!" - Stephanie & Chad, The Amazing Race 17