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Posted 01 Sep, 2005 at 19:47 by matt in /System | Permanent link

We're coming up on the first anniversary of DC, which I suppose makes this as good a time as any to check up on Ye Olde To-Do Lyst.

  1. Expand the author plugin capabilities, in ways that allow (2) and (3) from my last to-do list to be accomplished.
  2. Install or create a way to keep tabs on when new comments come in; I was going through some of the early months of posts last night and surprised to find random people dropping in and answering my questions.
  3. Some light spam filtration; another thing I noticed is that there's a couple of posts that have picked up dumb referer spam. (Why dumb? Because our system doesn't automatically assume a web address is a web address unless you prefix it with the protocol indicator. Take that, spam suxxors!) This will probably be along the lines Nikita suggested some months ago: "skill-testing" questions like How many "i"s are in "Mississippi"?
  4. Work some basic text-parsing into comments? At the moment there's no processing beyond filtering out bad HTML and occasional entity replacement. Since people seem to prefer not to write comments in raw HTML code, an alternative might be pleasant.

Anything I'm obviously missing? Any other suggestions, comments, etc.?

Comments (2 comments so far)
I don't much care for the (4) from your current list, but the (4) from your [-1] list would be pretty nice (show posts of only one authour).
Posted 2005/9/4 17:50:58 by Kael
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Based on some responses throughout this system (i.e. the Colophon) it would be really nice if we implemented something Nikita suggested in an earlier post, namely a humanity test of some sort, before allowing a comment. Comments that fail the test get sent to /dev/null, comments that succeed get posted accordingly

I know that means some of us (including me) will only average about a 50% posting rate, but that's a price I'm willing to accept.

Posted 2005/9/9 12:15:59 by Kael
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