Facebook may be looking to update its commenting system with a slew of very important features, including threaded comments, voting and a couple of others.
All Facebook has a screenshot (below) which shows these features in action. We don’t know the origin of the screenshot, but Facebook may be testing the new features on a small subset of users, as it often does.
If the screenshot is genuine, it’s extremely interesting; the new features have the power to transform Facebook’s commenting platform – which is currently a very simple affair – into something far more advanced.
Threaded comments are a great addition; many blogs, including Mashable, have switched from a single-threaded to a multi-threaded commenting system and never looked back. The ability to see some extra info about the user that left a comment, including his comment count, is obviously quite useful, too.
But the really big news is the voting system, which gives users the ability to rate a comment positively or negatively, similar to Digg’s voting system. The votes result in a comment rating, which can be really useful if Facebook plans to introduce a comment moderation system based on the ratings later on.
What do you think about these new features that may be coming to Facebook commenting system?
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