although soulcast has mentioned this feature before, the postmark feature, which allows you to click on the flags next to each person's comment in a blog entry, will allow you to hide that comment and all following ones so that if you return to that blog entry, you can skip over the comments you've previously read.
as another benefit, however, the feature will add the blog entry to your my conversations page without having to add a comment yourself.
just FYI.
ed
silverwhisper posted on Jul 18, 2007
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wombat said on Jul 18, 2007....
(Well, that one I understood....lol) Thanks, silverwhisper! -
moonriver said on Jul 18, 2007....
ed, there's another (undocumented, as far as i can see) advantage to postmark: if you click on a specific comment flag, then click again on the resulting line representing the compressed comments, the browser's URL line will display the exact URL for that particular comment.
i find this feature useful for embedding links that direct readers to a specific comment and not just to the blog that contains it. i've been using it occasionally for maybe 2 wks now. i've been looking for a way to do this since last yr, but couldn't -- except in the special case when you post a new comment of your own.
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silverwhisper said on Jul 18, 2007....
wombat: you're welcome! :>
moon: that's an excellent point, and something i'd forgotten. :>
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polarheart said on Jul 18, 2007....
I am really interested in what Moonriver is saying, but I dont understand it. Can one of you guys please explain it to me?Ta! Polar -
silverwhisper said on Jul 18, 2007....
polar: moon is saying that if you jigger the flag on a specific comment and switch it off again, it will show a URL for that specific comment. this means that you can create a link to a specific comment. for example, having just done that with your comment, i got this URL, which leads directly to your comment. :>
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polarheart said on Jul 18, 2007....
Aha! thanks, Ed, I will try that!! -
skald said on Jul 18, 2007....
This is very handy if there are many comments. -
fearing said on Jul 18, 2007....
Great tip Ed! -
Listener said on Jul 18, 2007....
Thank you for some good information,beats rolling on down the page. -
nosestud said on Jul 18, 2007....
How do you learn these secrets, ed? -
CreativeWoman said on Jul 19, 2007....
Thanks Ed. Thanks to moon too. I didn't know about the url for the exact comment thingymabob. :-D
CW
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jadestar said on Jul 19, 2007....
cool ed, thanx for all your tips. you keep them short & sweet (and BTW they are rather tmeous too - how do you do that?)...if instructions are too long my sometimes short attention span causes me to zone out..... -
silverwhisper said on Jul 19, 2007....
polar: glad to be of service. :>
skald: yeah, esp on some of the really popular ones!
fearing: i know there are people new to SC that didn't see the original post when the feature was introduced and have seen a few comments lately by people saying that they wanted to keep track of something in my conversations. :>
listener: hey, welcome to my blog! yeah, i use it a lot, myself.
nosestud: thanks for visiting! seen you around here and there. i wouldn't call it a secret--i've just been here a while and saw it when the feature was introduced, like i was saying to fearing, above. but i'm also just curious about stuff like this. incidentally, polarheart has a pair of really helpful blog entries about how to embed pictures and video into a blog entry, if you're interested.
CW: you're welcome, but as you can see, i learned something too--i didn't know that URL thing until moon mentioned it, either!
jadestar: you're welcome! i figure that if everyone has the same information, we can all pass it on to others that we find who might benefit from it, you know? but i don't understand your question in the parentheses--?
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jadestar said on Jul 19, 2007....
it just happened to be timely info...it was something I was pondering about just recently - it came @ the right time.........but then a lot of your stuff seems to come @ the right time.......................................... -
DesertMermaid said on Jul 19, 2007....
Thanks a lot Ed. And moon too. It helped . ;) -
silverwhisper said on Jul 19, 2007....
jadestar: o! well, in that case, that's cool. :>
desertmermaid: helpful guy, that moon. :>
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Frlncwrtr said on Jul 19, 2007....
Thanks, Ed! That's great advice, however I recently received the info from moon.
freelance
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silverwhisper said on Jul 19, 2007....
freelance: so long as folks know it, it can be propagated. :>
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Frlncwrtr said on Jul 20, 2007....
That is true, Ed. :) -
silverwhisper said on Jul 20, 2007....
"you can't stop the signal". :>
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