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Should allow forced monitoring

Feature request:

I just posted a comment to a blog, but that blog has moderated comments. Because of this, my comment has not appeared yet. I would like to monitor that blog post, but there aren’t any comments up there yet. When I enter the URL for this blog entry, I get the error:

Sorry, but I can’t read comments from this page.

And it don’t think I can force it to add it? There should be a button to force monitor it, in anticipation for a comment to appear later.

Posted by plaird in features on Monday, June 18th, 2007. You can follow any responses using co.mments, leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “Should allow forced monitoring”

  1. Assaf

    June 18th, 2007 at 5:52 pm

    That’s actually how co.mments works. If it recognizes that the page allows comments, it will allow you to track the page, even though there are no comments yet.

    Most likely, it’s telling you that it cannot track comments on that page at all.

    There are some cases where it can’t track comments until someone makes the first comment on the page. Not common, but I’ve seen that happen. Unfortunately, there’s a downside to having a force tracking option. Spammers.

    We get enough spam links as it is, and allowing spammers to add every page they think like to will bring the server to its knees in no time.

  2. plaird

    June 18th, 2007 at 7:15 pm

    Hi Assaf,

    Thanks for the detailed response.

    The blog I am trying to monitor is on BEA dev2dev. It is powered by Movable Type. There are a number of entries that don’t have a comment, you can try to monitor one of those but it won’t work. If you use one that has a comment, it will work.

    Is there something odd with that site, or Movable Type?

    Regards - Peter

  3. Assaf

    June 21st, 2007 at 10:29 am

    I’m guessing it’s a templating problem, co.mments can find each of the comments, but no marker for the empty list. Turns out it’s explicitly looking for some element with id=”comments” but ignores the anchors.

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