Comment scripts that don't preserve paragraphs

*Wassercrats* · 03-01-2011, 01:02 AM

I'm on a mission (as long as I could accomplish it with this post) to end the use of all commenting/guestbook type scripts that don't preserve paragraphs. The last straw was a suggestion I made to a federal agency in response to an official call for comments. I had the option of attaching a pdf file, but I figured why bother. Now I know why. My 10 paragraph comment collapsed into one mega-paragraph.

So, here's my call for everyone to name the scripts or publishing platforms or whatever people are using for this that have bad commenting support, so people could avoid them. Also, mention any that have good commenting support.

I don't know what the federal agency used.

oheso · 03-04-2011, 04:42 AM

Hear, hear! (You may be tilting at windmills, but I fully back you.)

Sorry, no one to add to the list at the moment.

*Wassercrats* · 03-05-2011, 09:26 PM

I just tried a guestbook from Pathfinder Guestbooks that doesn't preserve paragraphs.

*Wassercrats* · 04-27-2011, 12:11 PM

Someone on Facebook just told me "I'm on the new facebook messaging and every time I try to start a new paragraph, it ends up starting a new email instead."

oheso · 04-29-2011, 07:58 AM

That's a recent "feature" of Facebook and a lot of people are still getting used to it.

Mandi · 05-01-2011, 08:23 AM

And by "new email" they mean, new post.

You have to hit shift+enter to get a new paragraph in Facebook comments now. It's maddening, since it's not a convention used ANYWHERE ELSE. It used to be that enter gave you new lines, and you were good until you hit a conventional "Submit" button. It's not even universal on FB - in one's own status update area, there is still a submit button.

MADDENING!!

*Wassercrats* · 06-08-2011, 02:06 AM

I just complained to the Better Business Bureau about Amazon not mentioning that you need a credit card to use their gift card if you're a first time customer. The BBB website (at least for Washington) doesn't preserve paragraphs for complaints. They use at least one Hurdman Communications product, and I bet the complaint form is another one, so beware of Hurdman Communications.