[Silva-general] SilvaNewsNetwork commenting system

[kit BLAKE]

2006/10/3, Tuomas Tonteri <tuomas.tonteri at helsinki.fi>:
> I am not aware of a article commenting system, which are common in
> news pages, being in any public SVN on Silva News Network so:
>
> My definition of a commenting system in Silva:
>
> Readers have the ability to read and write comments to published
> Silva News articles.
>
> General functionality:
>
> - The comments will be rendered after the article, when it is
> viewed.
> - Silva News article has new variable, which displays the amount of
> published comments.
>
> Rights:
>
> - Comments left by users below some user level (anynomous) will be
> subjected to review by editor
> - User above some level (reader+) can leave a comment without being
> moderated. The comment will be published immediately.

Span is a mounting problem. We may not want to have any anonymous
access. Spam scripts are getting more complex and clever.

> Moderation:
>
> - User above certain level (editor/manager?) will be able to
> moderate the comments in article. This means the ability to publish
> comments with moderation request and also unpublish any comment.
>
> That's it basically. What I seek here is ideas about implementation
> and if there any any users of Silva News, who could use such
> functionality. I've personally done some very small tinkering with
> Silva News code here and there to suit my site's needs, but
> especially with the moderation feature, I would definately need
> assistance from a Silva News developer.

The fundamental question is where to store the comment content. Silva
news articles are stored as xml and versioned, so it wouldn't make
sense to add the comments to the xml. For instance that would change
the last modified date of the article. Often news articles are
adjusted after publication, because someone finds a typo. Or as a
result of a comment! :-)

Some sort of 'attached' object would be needed that contains all the
comment content and comment management functionality. This could be
attached to news articles or Silva documents or any metatype.

> There is already some basic commenting ability in SilvaBlog, it
> might or might not be of any help.

Roman, is it applicable or extractable?
kit


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