Re: [Slashcode-development] RFC for Open Story Submission Queueplugin

[Eric D. <eri...@ja...>]

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> in the absence of that, however, here are some ideas:
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> * submission method modularization (email, http, nntp linkages)

Um, email submission might be a cool idea....

>
> * administrative override (so that the trolls don't mod up a story as a
>    prank)

Great idea

>
> * settable limits on the speed with which a story can be modded up before
>         an automated mechanism decides a bot is doing the modding; logging
>         of accounts used in this fashion

Is that really a problem? I think the logging of story moderations by users is a
good idea.

>
> * graphing of story-submitters and frequency (libgd-perl is your friend)

Hmm.........another good idea

>
> * a configurable point system that can handle multiple levels of users,
>   differing moderation values, and various point assignments from each.

Again, great idea

>
> * the ability to assign different point values to different categories-
>   something may deserve +5 points from a newbie if posted to a
>   "tech" section, +8 points from a recognized
>   "strong-supporter-or-friend-of-admin, but only 3 points from a newbie in
>   "politics" and 5 from the aforementioned strong supporter.  this puts
>   responsibility for categorization in the hands of the users.  i'd like
>   to see dropdown javascript boxes (or whatever) allowing the story
>   submitter to give the top 3 categories they see fitting and their point
>   values.  form submit boxes with regex/match-parsing would work just as
>   well.
> * RDF / RSS exports of the story submission queues
> * items in queue web-accessible via some means other than the story
>   moderation page- i'd like to be able to get to a raw dump of the
>   stories.  i don't really care how- NNTP or mysql or postgres with a
>   simple page that just dumps the data would be fine.  of course, that
>   page will need controls on how quickly it can be dumped- perhaps the
>   perl script responsible for that can log accesses from IP's and slow
>   itself down accordingly?
> * a weird idea i just had- what if slashcode could parse in the rdf/rss
>   headlines from other sites and include THOSE into the story submission
>   queue?  it might not be such a bad idea to be able to choose to see
>   headlines frmo other relevant sites in a one-shot format, rather than
>   the full-on slash frontpage format. working on flexibility here rather
> than what most people would want...

I don't know about these others, but one thing I'd like to see or perhaps hack out
one of these days, is that if you submit a story to a section that has extra data,
say, book reviews, the user can enter those data fields when doing the original
post. Right now in Slash 1.0.9 I think you can only enter those fields while in
the Admin area.....