Best practices for displaying featured and buried comments
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I thought I’d invite people to share how they’re styling and using this plugin. That topic took a little thought as I could not locate good examples — just Chris Coyier’s ruminations on the subject. I don’t know if he still uses it on css-tricks — I couldn’t locate an example.
What I’ve tried resembles how the featured/buried comments are styled in the backend: buried comments are faded out a bit, and featured comments are highlighted. I make buried comments take a smaller font and hide their date link and avatar. It becomes “John says ‘Nice post!'” in a very small space, the point being not to insult or eliminate these comments — they’re just “buried” because they don’t contribute to discussion but are not offensive. (Inclusion of a “like” function will keep people who just want to express good will from doing it with a comment.)
In contrast, I have featured comments take a wide, high contrast background and an enlarged font size.
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