Re: [Slashcode-development] democratic moderation.

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From: "Eric Dannewitz" <eri...@ja...>
To: <sla...@li...>
Sent: Thursday, 26 April, 2001 13:21
Subject: Re: [Slashcode-development] democratic moderation.


> I think you can pretty easily disable the comment/rating the same article.

'disable' it?

 Seems like it isn't much of
> an issue in Bender, cause I've posted a comment, then moderated, or vice versa, and nothing
happened. In
> slash 1.0.X I'd see a "undo moderation" thing at the top after entering a comment (and doing
moderation
> before).

were you signed in as an author or admin or whatever? because i think they can participate in
articles and moderate other comments.

>
> And yes, kuro5hin seems to make you login before moderation. Perhaps your plug would be a good
idea.
> Maybe another idea is to have some sort of flag where you can "open" the moderation to everyone,
but
> they can only moderate once. And if that flag is set, then maybe do what you suggested and
averaging the
> results (this is where the plugin would come into play).
>
> I think that is a cool idea. Looking forward to it.

thanks.

would you want granular ratings? like instead of average it out to -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, make it
granular to hundredth place like kuro5hin ratings are. (i think). like 2.38 and so on.

>
> "CertIndex.com Webmaster" wrote:
>
> > the (i think) final plugin we're going to make for slash before we launch our forum is the open
and
> > democratic moderation plugin. it will work how kuro5hin's does (i think) in that every
registered
> > user will be able to rate every comment in every article, no matter if they participate in it or
> > not. i would like, if you (whoever) have time to give some suggestions. as i see it now, we'll
have
> > the form to submit the rating post to a script that will take all of the ratings and put them
into a
> > new table. i'm aware that registering ratings for these user would break slash if the people
> > commented in the article they rated comments in, so what i plan to do is run a cron (each minute
or
> > two or ten) that will take all of the votes for each comment in each article, average them out,
then
> > register 1 rating in the slash table for that by uid 1 (system). since 'system' never makes
> > comments, since he's not real ;), i think this is a good solution.
> >
> > so let's say 100 registered users rate a comment between 2 and 4. the cron comes along and
figures
> > out the average is 3. it then registers the 1 real (real as in it's in a real slash table, not
our
> > auxillary table) rating of 3 and sets the user rating it as uid 1.
> >
> > does anyone see any potential problems for this?
> >
> > oh btw, as for the rating 'extension' like 'funny' or 'troll' or whatver, we'll just display the
one
> > most common. *shrug* ideas? :)
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > ps: oh ya, we're also going to make a plugin so articles can be rated by users. anyone want
this? if
> > you do email me any features you want and i'll make sure they get in.
> >
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