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

[Patrick G. <cap...@sl...>]

Brian Aker wrote:

> elijah wright wrote:
> > [a side-thought; i'm only subscribed to this one list.  should i be
> > brainstorming somewhere else?  or is this a tolerable place for that?]
> That is exactly what this list is for.
>
> > feedback on my ranting from earlier this afternoon :)  i really like
> > slashdot but i need it to do some more stuff....  *grin*  i eventually
> > want to use it as a discussion forum for my students, but it needs a bit
> > more fine-grained tuning before it'll serve as i like :)

I don't think the stories being posted based upon users "moderating" or
"voting" the story as being visible will necessarily necessitate a plugin.
Well, if one were to make submissions a plugin, and modify it to allow some
sort of voting of approval. I'm not sure. This needs to be explained in
further detail though, as it involves the story submission process,
moderation, and abuse protection (as well as other things I'm not even
considering). If something like this is to happen, it'd be best to make use of
the people on this list to perhaps come up with ideas for implementing this
feature. I would however like to say that we're trying to get bender released,
and right now we're in the stage of bug and performance testing, and any
additional features should wait until the code is released. I'm also not sure
if this feature is being thought of as being implemented with MAIN or Bender.
If anything like this is to happen, it should be based upon Bender, as that's
the codebase that will accomodate any sort of plugins or modifications, as
that will soon be the current codebase within a month or so.

>
> In my list of plugins, Malda has a request in for discussions that
> are not linked to stories. What features were you looking for?
> Somewhere also in my list is a comment plugin that is not linked
> to stories.
>

This is already the case in the current codebase. You just have to create a
discussion by going to comments.pl with a "made-up" sid, that discussion is
then created, which is then listed in a full list of current discussions which
can be viewed upon  loading comments.pl without an sid.
Maybe I'm not thinking about the same thing. :)

>
> > is there a forum where people post things they'd eventually like to see a
> > slash-like system do?  i occasionally have a wacky plugin idea or
> > something and it'd be nice to be able to do something with it other than
> > just sit on it and hope i get un-busy eventually..
> This is the place for bringing up plugins. When I get a chance I will be
> putting up a plugin registry on slashcode.com.
>
>         -Brian
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