Comments

Comments are public messages left to the rest of the community. It allows participants to share information or opinions about a proposal, debate, meeting, initiative, etc.

Comments example

Create a comment

  1. Sign in as a participant

  2. Go to the content that you want to leave a comment

  3. Go to the bottom of the page

  4. Fill the "Add comment" form

Depending on the component settings, this feature can be disabled.

Comments form

Form

It’s possible to:

  1. mention a participant or user group (like @admin). They’ll receive a notification

  2. add a hashtag (like #Example). This will link to the general search

  3. make a quote of a comment (like > this is a quote)

  4. if an URL is entered, then it’ll be linked automatically Comments with rich text (write) Comments with rich text (read) Hashtags in comments

  5. if HTML is added, it’ll be escaped and not shown XSS in comments (write) XSS in comments (read)

  6. add emojis to comments Emoji selector in comments

Sort

Comments can be sorted by "Best rated", "Recent", "Older" or "More discussed".

Order comments

Actions

After a comment is created, the author can "Reply", "Report", "Get link", "Edit" and "Delete". Other participants can "Reply", "Report" and "Get link". Some of these actions are visible in the three dots menu:

Comments actions

Reply

It’s possible to reply to comments until the 4th anidation level.

Anidation levels for comments

Delete

Once a comment is deleted is not longer visible.

Deleted comment

Edit

Once a comment is edited then it’s shown that was edited. It doesn’t have a version history of the changes made.

Edited comment