Collapsible Merit Received in threads and replies (Show more/less...)

[MusaMohamed]

I mean, don't you want those really rare posts that very many people have appreciated to stand out? How often do you organically land on posts like that, anyway? A couple times a year?

I don't get it. What am I missing here?

Default, these rare posts display with forum default settings because theymos did not approve these userscripts.

If people already use userscripts, they can co use different user scripts and this one can help to calculate and display sum of merit to a post. With it, rare posts with very high number of merit will be known. They don't disappear under the mud.

Bitcointalk Post Merit Sum coded by @hatshepsut93.

Code:

// ==UserScript==
// @name     Bitcointalk Post Merit Sum
// @version  1.0
// @grant    none
// @include        https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=*
// @run-at         document-end
// ==/UserScript==

;[...document.querySelectorAll(".td_headerandpost")].forEach(post => {
    try {
        let sum = [...post.querySelectorAll(".smalltext i > a")]
            .map(e => {
                return parseInt(e.nextSibling.textContent.match(/\((.*)\)/)[1])
            })
            .reduce((acc, e) => acc + e, 0)
        if (sum > 0) {
            let sumElement = document.createElement("span")
            sumElement.textContent = `Total merit: ${sum} | `
            post.querySelector(".smalltext i").prepend(sumElement)
        }
    } catch (e) {
        console.error(e)
    }
})

[PX-Z]

I often like  to see all who merited those mega merit threads is great though but sometimes it may be bulky, especially when you're on a mobile device and so I stand with both sides.

Exactly, mega merit threads like the one i mentioned almost shows half of the page in mobile browsers so yeah...


I have updated the code, it will now show three rows/lines of received merits instead of two, i guess three rows in fine. Some bugs were fixed too.

[Upgrade00]

I mean, don't you want those really rare posts that very many people have appreciated to stand out? How often do you organically land on posts like that, anyway? A couple times a year?

The default can be to view the full merits given to the post and have the option to collapse it to less than 3 lines. This way the threads stand out historically and can also be read easier.

I happen to revert to such posts often to check one thing or the other, so it's more than a couple of times a year for me. New members are also directed to such threads when they join the forum, so it gets visited often.

One of the best fix suggestions we've had in a while? And one that you think that either theymos or I should push to the front of the queue?

I actually do. There has been a lot of great fixes recently which impacted majority of members. This may not matter to nearly as many and isn't solving an actual problem, just an inconvenience, so it's not as useful... Now I'm making arguments for why it's not one of the best  
But I do think it should be moved up the queue if it isn't much of a hassle to add.