'Your Response' bar could use more detail

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'Your Response' bar could use more detail

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September 25, 2008 at 8:51 am

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At the bottom of the web page there's a bar labeled Your Response that shows Rate This, Join The Discussion, Briefcase & Print when you are viewing an item in the Scripts area; not sure if this bars iotems change on other pages.
What would be useful but not something in dire need (so it's low on the request list) is if the 'Join The Discussion' tag included within parenthesis the number of replys/posts to the script. Thia way one can tell quickly if there has been any discussion at all about teh script. It would also be nice if there were some place on the page, perhaps within parenthesis and to the right of the rating, a number of how many times the script has been rated. A script with a high rating but with only 1 rating is very different from one with 10, 20 or even just 5 ratings.
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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 734418 More actions · Answer 1

Good idea, and I'll add this one to the list. Would be good to see # of replies.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003853 More actions · Answer 2

Not sure if it's possible, but it would also be really cool if we could have discussions on SQL Server about articles not on SQL Server. In other words, on articles from else where, it would be nice to have a "Join the discussion" on those just like the homegrown ones.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 734418 More actions · Answer 3

That one's been suggested, but people tend not to like pop-ups, and really questions or comments on the articles should be with the articles on other sites.

I know I prefer discussions on these articles on this site.

I'll discuss it with people and see what makes sense. Perhaps it would be worth being able to comment on this site, to at least say "definitely read this" or "don't read this"

YSLGuru SSC-Insane Points: 21632 More actions · Answer 4

Steve -

The problem with sticking with hosting discussions of the articles on their home site is that often those sites either offer no discussion forum/hosting or if they do, you have to sign up/register; no anonymous posting. I can understand the need for posters to register, but I for one don't want to register for a site just to post a comment.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 734418 More actions · Answer 5

Good point. I'll debate it tomorrow on the Publishing group's weekly call.