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

[elijah w. <el...@st...>]

> Yeah, I don't know about that. Kinda seems redundant in my opinion. I
> really would not like to see my slash site spammed with all that
> Usenet crap that gets posted (IE: Porn and stuff)

yeah.  its pretty easy to set up a private group, though... for larger
orgs hosting many smaller groups under their umbrella, though (like
universities; mine already has listservs on a per-course basis and
everything stored in LDAP campus-wide...) this kind of yummy goodness
makes a solution very efficient and appealing :)


> Do you mean like filtering out comments by certain posters? Is that
> what your getting at? That might be an idea, or perhaps being able to
> filter out Trolls and stuff would be good too. Of course, that would
> only be available for articles that haven't been dumped out of the
> database yet (IE: still able to comment on).

not what i meant, but its a good idea :)  

* let the user establish regexes for articles that automatically get
dumped.  killfiles, basically.  

i was more or less suggesting a clicky-box to dump an article into a
different queue as inappropriate.


> I know there are times I'd like to filter out some of the crap in
> comments to get to the meat. Like a lot of the stuff on Slashdot
> lately has been unrelated to the articles, especially the 20-30 first
> post people......

i hate those :)  (sometimes i think anything with ' fp' anywhere in it
should get sh*tcanned... i can't think of any words in english with that
string in them..)


> > how about a moderate-up-a-random-story button that selects from the
> > stories with at least minimum_number of positive votes? :)
> 
> Yeah, well, I kinda like the idea of the stories I see are "human"
> approved. Kind of organizes the discussions.

yep :)

> I'm a little confused as to why you'd want that........seems a lot of
> work for something that might not really be all that useful.......

oh, the random story approval button was just a whiz-bang idea that might
be kind of cute- i wasn't taking it seriously :)

> Well, when this "Bender" thing is more stable I'd love to add some
> stuff to it, but right now........I'm scared. I like my 1.0.9 setup,
> and I've tweaked it, and am going to tweak it a little more to do the
> submission thing I mentioned.

hehehehehehe :)

> Perhaps someone should write a PLUGIN WISH LIST or something on
> slashcode so people can write what they'd like to see Bender
> do.........

if someone would just post a story with that as the title so we can
muckity-muck around in a thread there?  

* plugin idea: i want to see a plugin/system implemented where i can get
  posts to a thread via email or via digests at regular intervals/size
  increments

~elijah