um, because I'm useless when it comes to computer things

[cornerofmadness]

can anyone tell me HOW to respond to the screened comments without unscreening them? I don't see an option for that! I replied to one and thought I say 'comment is now unscreened' then replied to another and yep, that is the case (don't worry ladies, I went back and deleted your comments off so no one would get those addresses. Sorry!! Damn) What in the heck am I doing wrong? I mean what's the point of screening if it doesn't stay that way?

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[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

It unscreens them when you reply, so I just go back and screen them both again quickly.

*shrugs*

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I can do that? I didn't know. I'll have to look at how to do that

[lejlkwiet.livejournal.com]

Yep, just screen them again :)

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Hit the eyeball button. When it's got a line through it, it means "hit this to screen". When it is an eye without a line through it, it means "this is now screened". So just go back and rescreen when it auto-unscreens.

Annoying, but there it is.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

that's the little eyeball thingie isn't it. I click on that and they went grey. That's screening them yes?

[lejlkwiet.livejournal.com]

Yep :)

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

I figured something out. Go me

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yep thanks. i did figure it out and yes that is annoying. What's the box next to the eye do do you know?

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

That's for freezing threads. You hit that when you want to prevent people from responding to a comment. It works heirarchically, so that by freezing a coment, you also freeze every comment that responds to it and the ones that respond to them--the whole sub-thread attached to that comment.

Although you have to refresh the screen to see all those sub-comments have been frozen.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

ah I see, so in case of kerfluffles...

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

It's about the only way available to keep your post--comments from collapsing as well.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

collapsing? you mean that hyperlinking thing they do when you get too many?

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

Yes, at 50 comments they all turn into links. It makes them hard to read, so some people freeze the threads.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah I know in the RPG's when we get to that we just make a new post for that reason

[masqthephlsphr.livejournal.com]

We do that in my Season 4 AtS discussion group, too, but sometimes people are answering their comments through email and don't realize the discussion has moved to a new post, and to keep the old post from collapsing, the LJ owner freezes the threads.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

yeah that happens to. I'll have to remember about this