ID for comments

Don't know if they exist, but aparrantly one can search for comments under posts.
For example comment #1.
But the difference between comment #1 and forum #345 is that one has an ID number and the other hasn't this number. So is it possible to show each comment's ID number to make searching or referring to a comment much easier?

You can see the ID number of a comment if you hover over the "vote up" or "vote down" buttons.

kuuderes_shadow said:

You can see the ID number of a comment if you hover over the "vote up" or "vote down" buttons.

Nope. Doesn't work for me at least.
But why hovering? Shouldn't this be visible just by looking at it, just like forum posts^^?

a quick and dirty way to do it with CSS:

.comment:after {
    content: " CommentID: " attr(data-comment-id);
}

It won't be selectable, but you can see the number.

Gollgagh said:

a quick and dirty way to do it with CSS:

.comment:after {
    content: " CommentID: " attr(data-comment-id);
}

It won't be selectable, but you can see the number.

Something like this, yes. But maybe it should be visible normally and not with some kind of CSS^^?

Provence said:

Nope. Doesn't work for me at least.
But why hovering? Shouldn't this be visible just by looking at it, just like forum posts^^?

I mean the link that comes up (usually in the bottom left of the window when you hover over the link) - there's a number where the asterisk is in .../comments/*/vote... - that is the comment ID. Checked and it works in Firefox, Opera, Chrome and IE.

Provence said:

Nope. Doesn't work for me at least.
But why hovering? Shouldn't this be visible just by looking at it, just like forum posts^^?

It's visible in the URL that pops up at the bottom left when you hover over a vote button. Ex. hovering over the votes in the comment you posted, shows http://danbooru.donmai.us/comments/1/votes?score=up. That /1/ is the comment id.

Edit: Damn, too slow.

Flandre5carlet said:

It's visible in the URL that pops up at the bottom left when you hover over a vote button. Ex. hovering over the votes in the comment you posted, shows http://danbooru.donmai.us/comments/1/votes?score=up. That /1/ is the comment id.

Edit: Damn, too slow.

Thanks for showing...but
Sounds a bit unnecessary complex, don't you think :P? I think it should be visible by just looking at it.

I think what Provence is getting at is "Is there any reason not to show the comment ID like the forum post ID is shown?"...

BrokenEagle98 said:

I think what Provence is getting at is "Is there any reason not to show the comment ID like the forum post ID is shown?"...

Yeah, exactly that.
But maybe I'm the only one who thinks that it should be shown just like the ID on forum posts is shown^^.

As a side note, you can also view a comment's ID by 'right-click -> Inspect'. This also shows a comment's score.

Well, that's all nice and dandy, but here's an image how it could look like:
http://i.imgur.com/TUsYTGz.png

As a side-side note, you can link to a specific comment on a post by using "#comment-<number>" after the URL.

http://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/2476103#comment-1584148

The same also exists for forum posts.

http://danbooru.donmai.us/forum_topics/13165#forum_post_119593

I'm working on a userscript that adds this (among many other things). Basically it adds post #1234 / comment #1234 / forum #1234 syntax across the site wherever possible, to make copy-pasting easier. I'll try to post the userscript today, after I clean it up some.

And I agree, it would be better to have this built in to the site, but I'm just doing it in a userscript for now, just to test it out.

Provence said:

Well, that's all nice and dandy, but here's an image how it could look like:
http://i.imgur.com/TUsYTGz.png

Agree, but there are probably some that wouldn't want to see the ID, so regardless, CSS settings will have to be used for a subset of the Danbooru population. The trick is to figure out which way most users would prefer, cater to that as the default, and then provide an easy how-to guide for those that want to see it the other way.

Well, comment #NNN is almost unused, it's easier to point to the post itself. We can compromise - include ID in the HTML but make it hidden by default. If you want to see it, you use custom CSS.

https://i.imgur.com/AkkwqY5.png

That's how I'm doing it in my userscript. It's true it's not used much, but adding it doesn't get in the way of anything either. The link opens the full post with the comment in view, which is sometimes useful if you want to see a comment in full context.