Moving to IntenseDebate
When I first transitioned The Editing Room over to Wordpress, I decided I’d leave the comments system enabled. Initially I did this on the assumption people may want to leave a comment to tell me what a stupid asshole I am for telling them their favorite movies suck (they do), so the default ‘ladder-style’ (one comment below another below another) seemed fine.
As of The Dark Knight script, it started becoming clear that the comments were extremely active, and 300 comments was far too many to tack onto the end of the page in ladder-style, so I started paginating the comments.
Since that script, I’ve observed that the comments have little to do with me or my dumbass scripts, but in fact are a growing community of people who like to discuss the movies being abridged (as well as tell me what a stupid asshole I am). Because the comments contain discussion and discussion is hard to follow over a paginated system, I’ve decided that the existing comment system is not sufficient.
Thus I am migrating to IntenseDebate for comments. IntenseDebate allows for people to have profiles, follow comment threads via RSS, vote comments up or down and, most importantly, reply directly to other comments. Conversations remain threaded. Additionally, I am moving the comments off of the posts and into a popup window so that they can all be on a single page.
There are a number of improvements I realize I need to make to the new comment system relating to functionality as well as look and feel. If you have feedback about the new system, please leave a comment on this post. I’ll be making changes in the coming weeks so that it can be something with which we’re all happy.
Thanks for your patience.
UPDATE: Just in case anyone is interested, I decided while I was mucking around with the site that I’d put some time into two things I’ve been wanting to do for a while. So, first and foremost, there’s a new logo for the site. Second, if you now visit the archives page (or the categorical archives to the left) you’ll find that you can actually sort by name, rating, and date. Enjoy!
First! And This is great.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:46 amMan, this movie was awesome. What a stupid asshole
June 29th, 2009 at 12:56 amMan, what a stupid asshole you are.
:P
June 29th, 2009 at 2:22 amGood to know. I'm pretty happy with it as well. I hope it makes conversations a bit easier to follow. I still have some styling to do and I'm having trouble deciding on a good place for the comment popup links but overall I like the system quite a bit.
June 29th, 2009 at 3:21 amRod, you're a stupid asshole. And anyone who writes, "First" in a desperate attempt for prestige is a stupid asshole. And anyone who calls two different people a stupid asshole in one comment is a stupid asshole.
June 29th, 2009 at 3:32 amRod, you're an asshole unless you do Koyaanisquatsi.
June 29th, 2009 at 4:41 amWorst script ever. I didn't laugh once. Didn't this site used to be funny? Stupid asshole.
June 29th, 2009 at 6:10 amRob is a jerkface because he's anti-movies! I like movies and I don't appreciate you making fun of them, Mr Jerkface! Ha!
June 29th, 2009 at 6:50 amYou are all stupid assholes. I am a stupid asshole. Praise Holy Asshole!
June 29th, 2009 at 10:34 amnice.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:56 amDo the goddamn Potter movies already, they're becoming the Duke Nukem Forever of abridged scripts.
This is nice by the way, easier to process all the different replys.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:02 pmDude…I frickin' hated the last comment setup; this is so much better. thx
June 29th, 2009 at 3:29 pmMan this movie was a stupid asshole! Rod, you're awesome!
June 29th, 2009 at 4:20 pmThis site is way too asshole intolerant. Sphincters are people, too.
June 29th, 2009 at 5:59 pmAwesome. It was getting kind of hard to read conversations if they went across pages and there was the possibility that someone might impersonate another.
June 29th, 2009 at 7:23 pmMan, what a bunch of crybabies! Oh, Rod didn't entertain me enough, I want my Internet dollars back! This script was awesome, Rod–keep up the good work. Looking forward to your take on Cloverfield.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:26 pmAwesome. Popups seem a little weird though.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:43 pmWell, it was either popping up a window, tacking the comments on the end of the post, or having the comment link replace the script in the current window.
Tacking the comments on was the problem I was looking to avoid because they grow so much, and I figured replacing the script would make discussion somewhat more difficult.
I'm not crazy about popups in general either, but it seemed like the best route.
June 30th, 2009 at 1:42 amLol, scissors.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:52 pmThe whole "stupid asshole" joke has been beaten, shot repeatedly, burnt and buried into the ground so I won't refer to the matter.
This works well I feel- a much better way to keep comments/replies organized.
You should've done this early Rod, you dumb butthole (doesn't have nearly the same effect, does it?).
July 1st, 2009 at 12:08 amso basically what you're saying is that you are smarter than the people who run the Onion AV Club, where incredibly long scrolls of comments are the rule, and a micromilimeter of mouse movement can mean the difference between the first paragraph of the article, and the 5000th comment? only a stupid asshole would be so arrogant as to make his site easier to use than a major commercial website.
keep up the good work, stupid asshole!
July 1st, 2009 at 7:58 amThis is kinda nice. As long as I don't have to sign-up/login to post I'm cool. The pop-up window is a minor inconveniance and besides I mainly just come here for the funny scripts of disappointing and/or craptacular movies anyway. In fact this is a probably the 2nd comment I've made on the site.
July 1st, 2009 at 3:31 pmGreat idea, man.
July 1st, 2009 at 6:20 pmThis is stupid Rod.
First, you're losing pageviews with this, and, since you advertise on the site, it isn't smart.
Second, although you're sending all this traffic to intensedebate, and thus easing bandwidth usage on your site, no respectable webmaster would send his traffic to some other site just for comments.
So, find some script that you can integrate intro wordpress that can do all this. Goodluck.
July 1st, 2009 at 8:27 pmGenerally speaking, I don't let my needs as a webmaster outweigh the needs of the people who are visiting the site. If the comment system costs me pageviews but makes the lives of everyone else easier, it's alright with me.
I'm toying with the idea of keeping paginated comments (still through intensedebate) on the post pages, but the notion of losing traffic of pageviews doesn't bother me very much.
July 1st, 2009 at 8:40 pmI don't really thing Rod is that greedy, actually.
July 2nd, 2009 at 1:18 amWill Disqus allow direct pasting into Wordpress? My school's paper uses Disqus right on College Publisher.
July 2nd, 2009 at 7:34 pmcongratulations sherlock
July 4th, 2009 at 9:11 pmGood ol Papa Rod, takin care of our needs. Oh, and don't let anyone tell you that you need to do a new Transformers script, that one's too ripe for anyone to watch, even for a satire.
July 5th, 2009 at 1:03 pmWhy not join the 21st century and just create a Proboards-based forum? All the cool kids are doing it.
July 6th, 2009 at 1:31 amThe more I see this new format, the more I don't like it. I check the site daily, and if there are new comments all I had to do past was scroll to the bottom. Now it's impossible for me to find the new ones, because they are buried in the replies in random places. How am I supposed to know if the post from an_asshole_56 from 6 days ago had 2 replies to it yesterday or three? Is that third one new? I can't know unless I dig through all the replies in all the comments and reread everthing every day. This is pretty much the death of my comment reading on this site.
July 7th, 2009 at 5:55 pmScroll up to the top. See the orange icon? That lets you get RSS feeds for any post or for all posts. Subscribe to the comments for the entire site in your RSS reader and you won't even have to visit the site to see what the new comments are. Seems like the system makes things easier for your usage.
July 7th, 2009 at 6:07 pmThere's also a button on top "Last Activity" that shows you the last posted comments if you click it.
July 7th, 2009 at 11:32 pmI've never commented before, but I wanted to let you know that I think this site is one of the funniest on the whole of the interwebs. Congratulations! And, also, just to keep with the flow, you're a stupid asshole.
July 11th, 2009 at 5:04 pmWhen you're trying to start a new comment section, all you need are a pair of pliers, some C-4, and a roll of duct tape. Funny comments are good, but funny screen names along with those funny comments are better. Try going with a well-known character or celebrity, or a play on words. Sam, I'm going to need your help on this one.
Ah hell, at least I entertained myself. Looking forward to the new script.
July 12th, 2009 at 6:39 pmI'll never understand the appeal people find in this stupid asshole's website.
July 14th, 2009 at 6:54 amWhy is it called the Editing Room? Shouldn't it be called "The Script Room" instead? I mean, if this guy can't even get the name of his site right, I can't imagine how much he's screwed up everything else.
July 16th, 2009 at 2:15 amwhere the fuck is the order of the phoenix? half blood prince has come out already come on rod wheres the work ethic
July 16th, 2009 at 2:48 amI'm really not trying to whine, and maybe it's just my lame server or something, but I have noticed since the switch that some older comments have vanished.
August 10th, 2009 at 4:31 pmI have a comment about the comment system: Why did it add my comments (which you checked) and then remove them?
October 12th, 2009 at 3:45 am