Hey guys, come help me whitewash the fence, it'll be fun!

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So the other day I asked Gene if he could change the blog so that it shows you (in the right margin) what the most recent 5 or 10 comments were. This way, if you're throwing down with a few different clowns on three different threads, you don't have to scroll down and remember the total post count just to check if that idiot has come back with a lame response to your crushing argument.

Now you would think that Gene, a professional programmer in a previous life, would have asked me some questions about my preferences for the feature, and then banged it out in 8 minutes flat.

Instead, he said, "You have administrative rights, see what you can figure out."

Is this tough love, or laziness? In any event, I found the Template switch in Blogger, and I see the html for the site. But I would just as soon try to give myself double bypass surgery than try to insert a box with the 5 previous comments.

Can anybody give me some code to paste in? I'm not dumb, just ignorant, when it comes to this stuff.

Comments

  1. Anonymous5:14 PM

    Why don't you just check the "send email notces" box on posts where you want to be notified of comments?

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  2. gcallah5:36 PM

    No, Bob wants to notify everyone of the most recent comments on any thread.

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  3. Bob Murphy5:56 PM

    Not everyone, Gene, just everyone who visits Crash Landing.

    David Zetland has the feature on his site, and I find it useful. Since DZ posts so much, it would be a real pain for me to scroll down and check whether he or some tree hugger with whom I am arguing has responded.

    So instead of having to do that, I just check his box on the right side to see if there are any comments starting with, "Bob you ignorant slut..."

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