The London indymedia collective recently came up with an interesting idea: “self-administration of comments” . The idea is now working on the development site.
To summarize:
1) Non-admin users can hide comments on their own stuff:
The site allows people to register accounts if they want to (anonymous publishing still works like it always did). If you publish an article, event, or video while you’re logged in, and someone comments on it, you are allowed to hide the comments on your own article, event, or video. If anybody can think of a nice way to encourage people to be responsible for hiding crap comments on their own content, in line with the editorial policy, that’d be cool. If it becomes a problem for some reason I can probably think up some way to bar people from administering their own comments on an individual basis.
2) The site now allows users a choice regarding whether to allow comments:
If you take a look at the publish form for an article, you will see that underneath the body text entry there’s a checkbox with the following explanation:
“You have the option of allowing comments. Untick this box to disable comments.”
So, users can now decide whether they want comments on their stuff (it’s ticked by default).
3) There’s a “latest comments” list in admin.
In other comment-related news, the admin system now allows admins to see a list of the latest comments on the site. Clicking a link on the comment allows the admin to go see the comment in context.
Thanks for the suggestions, keep the ideas coming,
