[IMC-bristol] Re: PROPOSAL- turn off comments till thursday (if it's easy!)

[Mike Tonks]

Practically, we could simply remove the comment form from the page.  It 
would be still be cached for old pages - I guess it is possible to 
refresh them all, but that's a bit more tricky.

We could replace the page that the comment form goes to, with a message 
of some kind.

We could allow comments but make them hidden by default.  [personally I 
find the show comments bit so slow that I would never look at it - 
maybee reducing the number on the page would speed it up...?]

There's not much difference between the way comments and articles are 
posted, so I guess someone could cheat if they were really clever.  I 
light of the current problem, that seems unlikely :)

Re ratings in the new site - I only said it was 'unlikely' because I get 
the general feeling that most people are against this.

However, if it was simple and usefull, then allowing volunteers and / or 
readers to rate articles, dissent against articles, could actually 
involve more people in quite a good way.  There's also the facility to 
create a 'registered user' and then set your own 'threshold' - so you 
could choose to see only the really good articles and none of the junk 
if you wanted.

There's no real tech nightmare, because the thing has been written 
already by dadaIMC [spud] and it seems to work really well, and be 
fairly easy to configure in loads of different ways.  Seems like roughly 
half the imcs are now moving to this, and half to mir.  Check the 
website http://www.dadaimc.org - there's good instructions and help 
files for all of this stuff.

Also, they are really helpfull on the mailing list, so we can probably 
get assistance if we need it.



sam rossiter wrote:
> Hi Mike/all 
> is it easy to turn comments off?


> just in the short term i think it might make people
> think about the value of the comments if they were
> turned off till this meeting.
> 
> I dont like the idea of full moderation- maybe it is
> somthing to consider if the situation does not
> improve..
>  
> "> The new code does have a ratings system which may
> 
>>help deal with this -
>>you can set either only show articles [comments]
>>with 3 positive
>>ratings, or hide anything that gets 3 disaprovals,
>>etc. " 
>>
> 
> This sounds like a possible solution to me - what do
> you mean by "we will probably not use this" ?
> 
> Is that a technical decision? I imagine it could make
> the set up harder - can you explain the problems in
> non tech language?
> 
> See you thursday 
> 
> Sam
> 
> 
> 
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