Reading comments
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There are three ways to read comments posted to your blog:

·In your blog  
 
·Using the Publisher Control Panel  
 
·In your email  



Reading Comments in Your Blog

You can read comments by opening the main page of your blog and viewing comments listed for individual blog entries. This is how your readers read comments on your blog.



Reading Comments using the Publisher Control Panel

From the Dashboard, you can open and read comments from these locatons:

·the Recent Comments list on the Dashboard  
·the article's Edit Article page  


To open comments via the Recent Comments List on the Dashboard

1.Navigate to your blog's Dashboard. If there are comments posted for one or more of your blog entries, the Recent Comments list on the Dashboard is activated below the Recent Articles list:  

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2.To read a comment, click on its name in the Comment column. The Articles Comments page opens.  

Note:  
 
By default, the Recent Comments list displays the 5 most recent comments in reverse chronological order. You can change the number of comments displayed by selecting 25 or 50 from the drop-down menu and then clicking the Display button.  
 
The list has three columns:  
 
·Comment  
The title of the comment appears in this column. Click the title to open the comment's Article Comments page.  
 
·Author  
If the person who made the comment was logged in, their name is displayed in this column. If the person commenting was not logged in, the word Anonymous appears in this column.  
 
·Date  
This column contains the date and time (with time zone) when the comment was posted.  
 


To open comments via the Edit Article page

1.From the Publisher Control panel, navigate to an article, review or photo entry's Edit page. For details on opening an Edit page, see Opening articles, reviews and photos.  
 
If the blog entry has comments, the Comments link and the number of comments for an article is shown on its Edit page just below the title, similar to the example shown below:  


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2.Click the Comments link. The Articles Comments page opens.  

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To read comments on a blog entry's Comments page

In the upper left-hand corner of the page is the Comments header (these comments are linked to an article), and below it is the title of the article.

Other components of the page are:

The Comment Tree

The Comment Tree is in the left panel of the Article Comments page, and provides a view of all the comments for the article in a tree hierarchy format.

In the example above, the Comment Tree initially shows only two although three comments in total were made to the article. This is because only two comments were made directly for the article; the other comment was made in response to another comment. The first comment ("Re: First Post!) has a + sign attached to its branch of the tree, which means that it has sub-comments, or comments made in response to it. Clicking on the + sign expands that comment, revealing the comments made in response to it.

Clicking the expand all link opens all the branches and sub-branches of the Comment Tree, and shows all the comments. Clicking the close all link closes all the sub-branches of the Comment Tree, showing only those comments made directly in response to the article.


The Comments

The right portion of the page contains the comments:

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Comments that are responses to other comments are indented. In the graphic example above, the indented comment "Re:Re: First Post!" is a response to the comment "Re: First Post!"

Each comment has the following parts:

·Delete checkbox  
Click this checkbox to mark the comment for deletion. For details, see Deleting comments.  
 
·Title  
The title is shown in bold at the beginning of the comment.  
 
The default title is "Re: X", where X is the title of the item to which the comment is a reply. A comment can be a reply to an article or another comment.  
 
·Byline  
This is the name of the author of the comment. It is listed below the title.  
 
If the author of the comment was logged in, the byline contains the name attached to the author's account.  
 
If the author of the comment did not log in (or was logged in but chose to comment anonymously), the byline reads by Anonymous.  
 
·Date and Time  
The date and time (with time zone) when the comment was posted appears immediately after the byline.  
 
·IP Address  
The IP address of the computer from which the comment was posted.  
 
·Body  
This is the main text of the comment. It appears below the byline.  
 
Depending on your settings, a comment may or may not contain HTML formatting. The second comment, "Re: Re: First Post!" contains HTML formatting -- the word "very" is in italics, and the word "BoingBoing" is linked to another web page.  



Reading Comments in Your Email

You can also receive your comments by email, using your blog's Comment Notification feature. Your email contains the full text of the comment to your blog entry.

For details on Comment Notifications and how to receive them, see Getting Notified About Comments Via Email.