I think the moderators should be careful not to censor or edit to much repetitive commentary especially during exciting moments of the Grand Prix as I think this heightens our excitement enjoyment and appreciation of the F1 craft. This thought is confirmed many times over when some fans can only follow the race through the blog and they see the collective repetatative excitement and are equally gripped with developments.

I think that significantly speeding up the time it takes for comments to be posted would be great as it sometimes takes a very long time. This would probably then do away with the concerns of repetitive commentary as it then wouldn’t matter much thereafter.

Once again, thanks for giving up your time to do this Keith. Its appreciated and its great we have a forum for fans to get together.

I meant to add: that makes two lines saved, and four words we don’t have to read, in the space of three comments.

Note that there is no point in re-reading “Comment From” again and again — it only slows down one’s reading.

I’m not criticizing, only suggesting. You have a wonderful blog, and I appreciate the live commentary because I often can’t watch the race on TV or on the net (low bandwidth).

Here is another suggestion that will get more comments in the length of the box: Put the commenter’s name on the same line as the comment as you do for the moderator’s name.

Currently:

F1Fanatic.co.uk: Hamilton was fastest from the Ferraris af Massa and Raikkonen with Kovalainen fourth.

[Comment From Kris]
Afternoon all – some french onion soup sees me nourished and ready to roll

[Comment From Chaz]
hi all. back for more

Suggested:

F1Fanatic.co.uk: Hamilton was fastest from the Ferraris af Massa and Raikkonen with Kovalainen fourth.

Kris: Afternoon all – some french onion soup sees me nourished and ready to roll

Chaz: hi all. back for more

Is there a way to expand length ways the blog box. I find the space allocated to incoming comments is a little small and not always easy to follow especially when there are several larger posts. I know you can stop the automatic scrolling but I find this is not always the best solution especially in the heat of an exciting moment.

i applaud your success, and see this step as crucial, however, during the beligian GP i was home and tried to contribute to the converstaion, and reading past posts is very hard, as when you scroll up, the thing just goes back to the latest message posted, and messages stream so fast, that it’s hard to follow them.

can you like do something to enable us to scroll up and keep it there while we read something we’ve missed without having to wait till the blog shuts down at the end?

the rest is excellent, even with that tini winny inconvenience it was great fun watching the race with you guys. looking forward for this weekend talk to you then.

I think this will promote much better discussion rather than 30+ people commentating on the race.