Hey Carl

I have article summaries turned on for my home page.

Also, a comment form shows on the home page.

I am getting some people commenting on various articles, but the comment shows up attached to the home page instead of attached to the article they are commenting on.

I would rather have their comments attached to the article they meant to comment on. But it is a pain to move them (finding out article IDs and opening the XML file with the comments in it), and sometimes it is tough trying to guess which article a comment was meant to go with.

I considered taking the comment form off the home page, but that makes it impossible for someone to give me a general "cudo" (or complaint) about the site as a whole.
I also considered asking you about a "feature request" such that, there would be a special kind of comment form with an extra field in it, that could be invoked if article summaries is invoked, that grabs a list of titles of the articles being summarized, along with a generic option choice of "no article: regarding this site in general", and puts them all in a drop down list, and requires the commenter to choose, if the comment form loads on a page with summary articles happening. But even if you felt that should be done, it would not be an immediately available fix.

I have not pondered on this any longer than it took to right this post, so I may be missing the obvious in deciding on a way to address this. I welcome any input!

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Sincerely,
Doug Joseph

More info:

I realized I have an article assigned to the "home" section. That article is acting as a catch-all, such that all the mis-placed comments are getting attached to that article, and therefore showing on the home page. Sorry to ramble so confusingly on this. I'm confused, therefore I post confusingly.  :)

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Sincerely,
Doug Joseph

Doug I think you figured this one out, but just to clarify...

Comments are associated to one article.  If you have several articles on one page (summary) then there is no way to determine which article the comment belongs to.  This is why by default the comment form does  not appear on summary pages.  Once a visitor chooses a specific article, then Vine Type is able to directly associate the comment to the article.

If I understand correctly, your home page is showing both an article (and a comment form) and article summaries.  Vine Type is associating all comments on that page to the one home page article (since it is still accepting comments) rather than other summaries on the page.

 

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Sincerely,

Carl
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Thanks. No, the page is displaying summaries, but not the article that is getting the comments.

To put it another way, a comment form is showing, but not the article it goes with. The comment form seems to show because the one article accociated with that SECTION is too old to show in the summary list, but is still open for comments and still associated with the "called upon" section.

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Sincerely,
Doug Joseph

You can set your "accept comments days" for the home page article to zero and the comment form should cease to appear.

 

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Sincerely,

Carl
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Thanks, but my goal was to have a comments form on the main home page.

What I suggested was for the comments form on the main home page to have a dropdown choice consisting of "general: site comment" plus the titles of articles shown in the current summary list (if the given article was still accepting comments).

For more clarity:

I do want article summaries on the main home page.

I do want a comment form on the main home page.

I do wish the comment form on the main home page could prompt the user to assign their comment to the right article.

I understand this may not be a concern for you. Again, I am just to trying to give clarity about the goal of my suggestion.

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Sincerely,
Doug Joseph

DougJoseph:

1. I do want article summaries on the main home page.
2. I do want a comment form on the main home page.
3. I do wish the comment form on the main home page could prompt the user to assign their comment to the right article.

Thanks for clarifying.  #3 is quite an edge case and I don't know of a blog engine in existence that prompts users with "Which article on this page are you commenting on?"  I don't see Vine Type adding the functionality described in #3.

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Sincerely,

Carl
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I understand. Thanks for getting back on it.

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Sincerely,
Doug Joseph