Limit comment threading depth [#351719]

This is outside of the stated scope of this module, but since you're making so many wonderful improvements to the way comments work, I thought I'd make this request.

Basically we all know how nuts comment threading can get, and how we can end up with a huge number of indentations and very small posts, and this is made especially easier since we can now easily and with good usability, reply to threads in ways that make a lot of sense.

So, I would like to make it impossible to add a comment after a depth of 3.

Comment
-comment
--comment
---comment
----comment NO WORK, auto defaults to->
---comment
Comment

This probably requires hooking into the comment module rather than just javascript, but it would be a superb feature. Thank you for this module.

Comments

Comment #1

neochief CreditAttribution: neochief commented 30 December 2008 at 23:59

Yes, it could be done in next versions along with the thread folding.

Comment #2

neochief CreditAttribution: neochief commented 31 December 2008 at 00:01

Status:

Active

» Postponed

Comment #3

Flying Drupalist CreditAttribution: Flying Drupalist commented 31 December 2008 at 00:04

Wow, terrific. Thank you.

Comment #4

Kane CreditAttribution: Kane commented 31 July 2009 at 08:08

I'm looking forward for this feature.
I think in settings page could be new field with number of reples after which class .indented won't be added. You still will be able to reply to comments but they won't be moved to left via .indented margin.
Here's what i mean:
Max thread depth: 5
Comment1
Comment2
-Comment4 (depth 1)
--Comment5 (depth 2)
---Comment6 (depth 3)
----Comment7 (depth 4)
-----Comment8 (depth 5 - max)
-----Comment9 (reply to Comment 8 but because of max depth 5, new .indented class won't be added)
Comment3

Thanks for great module.

Comment #5

Gyt CreditAttribution: Gyt commented 31 July 2009 at 20:14

Simple css solution (for max thread depth: 5):

.indented .indented .indented .indented .indented {
margin-left:0;
}

It works! Trust me :)

Comment #6

Kane CreditAttribution: Kane commented 1 August 2009 at 16:39

Holy ..., can't believe i haven't thought about that.

I've wrote some stuff which can help with this feature, check 9th comment here:
http://drupal.org/node/323237

Comment #7

mr.alinaki CreditAttribution: mr.alinaki commented 1 August 2009 at 18:17

Hmm... What I think about this:
What we have by default:

comment1
  comment1.1
   comment1.1.1
    comment1.1.1.1
     comment1.1.1.1
      comment1.1.1.1.1
       comment1.1.1.1.1.1
       comment1.1.1.1.1.2
      comment1.1.1.1.2
       comment1.1.1.1.2.1
  comment1.2
comment2

What we have with CSS-solution:

comment1
  comment1.1
   comment1.1.1
    comment1.1.1.1
     comment1.1.1.1
      comment1.1.1.1.1
      comment1.1.1.1.1.1
      comment1.1.1.1.1.2
      comment1.1.1.1.2
      comment1.1.1.1.2.1
  comment1.2
comment2

As you can see, we don't know where are needed "replies to".

What we must have, I think:

comment1
  comment1.1
   comment1.1.1
    comment1.1.1.1
     comment1.1.1.1
      comment1.1.1.1.1
      comment1.1.1.1.2
      comment1.1.1.1.1.1
      comment1.1.1.1.1.2
      comment1.1.1.1.2.1
  comment1.2
comment2

Comment #8

Flying Drupalist CreditAttribution: Flying Drupalist commented 1 August 2009 at 18:26

There's still threading going on behind the scenes, allowing later comments to precede earlier comments.

Just removing the indentation would cause a lot of confusion.

Comment #9

mr.alinaki CreditAttribution: mr.alinaki commented 2 August 2009 at 05:00

Yes, that's exactly what I've try to say :)

Comment #10

rjbrown99 CreditAttribution: rjbrown99 commented 20 October 2010 at 01:30

Assigned:	Unassigned	» rjbrown99
Status:	Postponed	» Active

I wrote another unpublished module that does exactly this. I'm torn whether or not to include it in this module or put it into a different module since it has applicability beyond just ajax.

I'm re-opening and I'll post a bit more to this but in the meantime if people are interested please feel free to chime in.

Comment #11

jvsteiner CreditAttribution: jvsteiner commented 19 March 2014 at 09:11

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Bravo, Gyt, bravo...

I don't care much about comment order precedence in my application - this solution accomplishes 99% of what I would like with one line of code. No new module to install/update/configure, no php overhead... Nice one.