meta-question: comment subject field

[cos]

Anyone more well-practiced at dreamwidth than I am know how to set mine such that people reading my posts, by default, will get a Subject: field on their comments that will copy the subject line from my post (but let them change it)? Livejournal did this by default, and I really really miss it - it's the one way in which I think dreamwidth is far inferior to LJ, and if it weren't for the Russian takeover, it would be the reason I'd stick with LJ. But there must be a way to customize things so that this happens for my posts, even if it's not set that way for other people's posts, right?

It's so frustrating that all comments get emailed to me as "Reply to your entry" or "Reply to your comment" or "Reply to a comment" with no indication of which post or comment it is. That's one of the main things that drove me away from using dreamwidth regularly the other times I tried to get into the habit, but hopefully there's a way to fix it.

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[sparr]

I don't have an answer for you, unfortunately.

I will commiserate, though. I often refer to the "game" of guessing what thing an email notification is about, on Facebook in particular.

[elusiveat]

I don't know if there is a way of changing that. With it having been a thing on LJ (I had forgotten about it, so it's useful to be reminded that it was a thing!), I wonder if there would be any value in asking Denise and company about adding that functionality. They are busy people, though, so I don't know.

It is my understanding that this exact issue is the reason why Siderea creates "comment-catcher" comments for her sponsored DW posts (this was mysterious to me for a really long time). It's hacky and weird, but is one possible approach.

Re: meta-question: comment subject field

[cos]

I don't know them, but if you want to ask them to add this, please do!