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[the_rck]

I spent some time yesterday deleting DW comments that I know I'm never going to answer. I apologize if I've left you hanging on a comment response, but I keep losing track and then not being sure if I've got the wherewithal to go back and answer. Right now, I'm mostly saying that no, I don't, but I might still respond to comments that have been sitting for months. Maybe.

I do wish that DW and AO3 gave me an actual date stamp for inbox comments (I can get a date stamp if I click through to the entry, but I shouldn't have to). I hate looking at something that says, 'five days ago' or '350 days ago' or 'seventeen weeks ago' and trying to figure out the date of the comment without pulling up a calendar and toggling so that I can count. I really shouldn't have to do that.

Is there a setting I can change in either place? It's seriously worse than useless to look at an AO3 comment that has a time stamp of '3094 days ago.' Who thought that was a good idea? It has to be perpetually recalculated which must use resources. I don't even care what time zone the comments are anchored to as long as it's consistent from comment to comment. It's not as if the date isn't recorded on the comment on the actual post, so why???

Comments

[wendelah1]

It might be less taxing to you to just post periodically that you're not up to answering comments. Save yourself the time and energy.

I just ignore my inbox completely and answer comments through my email notifications.

[fred_mouse]

as a long term comment ignorer, I completely sympathise. I think I'm going to have to do a purge on mine, just because I can't deal with going back and working out whether I've kept a comment because of a good reason, or just because I missed it coming in the first time.