Comment indexing

[sara]

Title:
Comment indexing

Area:
commenting

Summary:
Build a thingy that will pull the subject lines and direct links from top-level comments on a post and output them in some kind of useful format (maybe a table or a list?) which can be inserted into the body of the post (hopefully under a cut-tag). Bonus points if it can be set to periodically run an automatic update.

Description:
This suggestion is motivated by my total lack of enthusiasm for spending an evening manually indexing a meme. I don't want to do that, that's a database query. Someone should build a thingy so the server can do this job for me.

Specific thingy-implementation-related issues should be conceptualized by someone with more thingy design and implementation experience than I have.

Poll #8881 Comment indexing

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Should be implemented as-is.
47 (62.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (1.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
3 (4.0%)

(I have no opinion)
24 (32.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[amadi]

Except where it would be most used are exactly the places least likely to be paid: specifically various fannish meme (ahem) communities.

[sara]

*grin* Believe me, the meme that motivated this is on a paid account.

That said, I have no idea what the paid-to-unpaid ratio is on meme comms. Though if you were looking for something to convince meme comms to chip in, well...something that automated what's now taking hours and hours of mod time might just be it.

[amadi]

This is true. Though making indexing a paid feature could also stifle creation of meme comms by those who can't afford a paid account. Interesting issue to balance.

[sara]

*shrug* There'd be nothing to stop people from doing it the way it's being done now, so I don't know how discouraging it would be.

That said, sorting out the business case is not any more my problem than sorting out how to spec the thingy.

[boundbooks]

All things considered, I wonder if looking at things from the point of view of the comm is the wrong way to go about it. Considering the kind of users who participate in kink-memes, is the presence of better/easier memes on DW an incitement to have *them* pay for accounts? I don't think the question really is whether the comms should have to be paid to do this (although they could be), but the bigger question might be whether this makes DW more appealing to people who are potential paid users on their personal journals. :)