Great news! We’ve added some new features to our commenting tools. You may have noticed a couple of changes right away.
NEW! Now you can mention another commenter by their guest number or just by starting to type the name they use on our site. In this case, I start typing Susan Reader and it recognizes Susan right away. If I click on the yellow box, Susan’s # is pasted into the comment with an @ symbol in front. Now Susan will receive a notification by email that she has been mentioned in a comment. Marker 1 in the image below shows how that looks in use. YOUR EMAIL STAYS PRIVATE! At no time will we share your email with anyone unless we are complying with a legal order.
NEW! The addition of a (@guest_867530) tag after the name you’ve chosen to share with our readers. This is how our system identifies individual commenters. Since we don’t ask you to log in and we don’t track you individually any other way (see our privacy policy for more info), this is the way our commenting tool keeps track of your comments and any comments you’ve subscribed to. See Marker 3 in the image.
NEW! As requested, we’ve added the ability to search comments. Marker 2 shows us the new search field and search menu. When you click the menu you can limit your searches to author, email or comment content.
Old features not often used!
We still have all of the other great features, such as the formatting bar (seen below at the bottom of the typing area where you can add bold, italic, etc., etc.) and the ability to sort by newest, hottest, and now most voted.
And yes, we brought back the up/down vote. This feature was abused by some readers last time we tried it out, so we turned it off. This time around we’re going to give this a try and see how it goes. Please try to keep the good vibes going, but if you must use the down-vote, do so sparingly. See the Flag below if you think a comment violates our rules.
There are a couple more handy features we’d like to point out: Every comment has a link. If you hover to the right of the name and time a comment was posted you’ll see a comment ID appear and a little red flag. The comment ID is actually a link to that particular comment. So if you’d like to share a comment with someone click that and the link to the comment will be copied to your clipboard where you can paste it wherever you like.
Clicking the red flag will mark the comment as having violated our rules of conduct for posting. It notifies the moderators that one of our readers found a comment to be objectionable and possibly in violation of our posting rules. Use this sparingly, but if you see obvious false information, someone trying to advertise something (SPAM) or any kind of hate speech, please click the flag so that our moderators know that something is amiss with that comment.
By the way, if you haven’t ever looked at our commenting rules, now is probably a good time to go check them out.
That’s it for now. Have fun, be nice, especially when you disagree with someone, and thank you for bringing life to RVtravel.com with your comments! We always appreciate your input.
Excellent!!
Ok, I’ll give it a try. I’m sorta, kinda with Thomas D. When I first started reading RVT it took me a year to figure out that I COULD comment. If you don’t hear from me for a while, it is not because I have stopped reading RVT. However, thank you for giving a heads-up with instructions. Mom told me that I should learn something new every day.
No comment…..🙂
🤣👍 Have a good afternoon/evening, Bill. 😀 –Diane
Is change necessary? What is/ was wrong with the present system? My 80 yo brain can’t take much more. It seems that there are tech e’s that sit around and do nothing but screw up what is perfectly good. I realize their job depends on change but ? I’ve got better things to do than decifer new code.
Thomas, you don’t have to do ANYTHING differently, just some can use the new features if they choose to.
I hope that the ability to comment improves….many times I have been unable to post a comment. I would click on the “Post Comment” button & nothing happens.
Thank you, Kim! Thanks, too, for the link to the commenting rules. I don’t think that I’ve ever seen/read them. 🙁 Have a great Thanksgiving! 🙂
Thanks for the tutorial Kim the IT Dude. Looking forward to the conversations and comments. Hopefully everyone keeps it civil, even through the impending disagreements and including yours truly. My guess, the silencers will probably still want to silence instead of engaging in rational productive pragmatic dialogue, and in fact, that comment will surely get a few thumbs down to kick off a Saturday.
👎👎 Just kidding, Cancel. It’s only Friday night.😅 Meet ya back here in a few hours, I’m sure. Have a good night. 🙂 😴 –Diane
That’s soooo funny Diane. 🤣😂 You crack me up sometimes. Busy day ahead, see you tomorrow. ✅️. You get a thumbs up for the laugh. LOL.
👍 Have a great day, Cancel. 😎 –Diane
Is there an emoticon link that I see in all these posts?
Hi, Gary. I’m not sure what the readers can use in the program itself when they’re commenting. What I do is hit the Windows icon (on the bottom row of my keyboard) and period [⊞+.] which brings up tons of emojis. Good luck! Have a great day. 😀 –Diane
Wow. I never knew that. Thanks!
You’re welcome, Gary.👍 I just learned about it a couple of months ago. I’m sure enjoying that capability. And notice at the top of the box it includes a gazillion emojis and GIFs, etc. It seems to work in just about everything (although I haven’t tried it on social media, since I don’t use that much). Have a great day. 😀 -Diane
Hi Gary, we didn’t enable the custom emoticons due to site performance concerns. But maybe we’ll give it a try and see how it goes… some of them are pretty funny.
-Kim