Re: [Slashcode-development] democratic moderation.

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

"CertIndex.com Webmaster" wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> 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?

Well, yeah, if your an admin, it doesn't effect you, so, there must be something in there that overrids
the defaults.

>
>
>  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.
>

Yeah. I was logged in as admin. But in Bender your always, seems to me, logged in as admin if that is
the level that you have.

>
> >
> > 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.
>

Well, I think that would be cool, except for showing who rated the comment as what. I don't know if I
like that. But definately not allow more than 1 moderation of a comment. If they change it, then it
changes what they moderated it as before, but doesn't add a new record to the average.


>
> >
> > "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
> > >