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Private messages / Spoiler comments
Something that has come up between seldom and I is the issue of how we discuss future events in a story without spoiling it for readers. On his 'The ingenious machine' story, I made a post and wanted to discuss some ideas for the future of it. I opted to post on his profile, rather than on the story to add some misdirection, but still ideally some way of privately speaking to another person would be nice, certainly better than the current idea of just deleting the comment, since then we don't have the ideas documented online so we can both find them anywhere.
Another idea would be to have some kind of way of flagging a comment as a spoiler. Much like the praise/just chatting/etc buttons on the side, you could have a spoiler button which would by default make the comments collapsed (like comments on other chapters than the one you are one currently are). That way people can ruin it for themselves if they like, but it doesn't have to be that way be default and the comments can actually be on the relevant story/chapter. Perhaps colouring the 'spoiler' posts differently as well, just to make a distinction between a spoiler and any other collapsed comment would be an idea as well.
Another idea would be to have some kind of way of flagging a comment as a spoiler. Much like the praise/just chatting/etc buttons on the side, you could have a spoiler button which would by default make the comments collapsed (like comments on other chapters than the one you are one currently are). That way people can ruin it for themselves if they like, but it doesn't have to be that way be default and the comments can actually be on the relevant story/chapter. Perhaps colouring the 'spoiler' posts differently as well, just to make a distinction between a spoiler and any other collapsed comment would be an idea as well.
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Yeah, adding them in the same way as chapter comments with a "spoiler" tag is probably the easiest way to build it, anyhow. I would eventually like to have somewhere that people can chat about the story content / writing itself separately from the general comments, though. I'll figure something out that works for both cases.
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This is an excellent idea. I just need to think of a way to implement it unobtrusively.
I don't think adding a complete private messaging system is a good solution here (it's something I've wanted to avoid for a long time), but adding some way to add story notes that are private is a great notion.
I think what I'd do is make them visible to anyone who's contributed a chapter to the story, though. Let me think about the best way to integrate it, but I think this would be pretty easy to add and would create quite bit of value for the minimal time investment.
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Inappropriate?This is an excellent idea. I just need to think of a way to implement it unobtrusively.
I don't think adding a complete private messaging system is a good solution here (it's something I've wanted to avoid for a long time), but adding some way to add story notes that are private is a great notion.
I think what I'd do is make them visible to anyone who's contributed a chapter to the story, though. Let me think about the best way to integrate it, but I think this would be pretty easy to add and would create quite bit of value for the minimal time investment.
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Inappropriate?I like this idea, but I don't think the spoilers should only be visible to people who have contributed to the story. If someone hasn't contributed yet but wants to, it would be helpful to read what the authors were planning before jumping in...
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Inappropriate?i think allowing them to be accessible to everyone is a good idea but much lile how comments from other branches are collapsed when you are in a different branch, so too shoukd spoiler comments be collapsed (and marked as spoilers) when you haven't contributed to the story yet -
Inappropriate?Yeah, adding them in the same way as chapter comments with a "spoiler" tag is probably the easiest way to build it, anyhow. I would eventually like to have somewhere that people can chat about the story content / writing itself separately from the general comments, though. I'll figure something out that works for both cases.
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