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Sara ([personal profile] sara) wrote in [site community profile] dw_suggestions2011-12-22 09:58 pm

Comment indexing

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
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 75


This suggestion:

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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%)

arethinn: glowing green spiral (Default)

[personal profile] arethinn 2011-12-26 11:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Neat idea (although I'm not sure I'm visualizing the correct kind of post where this would be wanted), although sounds server-loady, definitely paid feature or even premium paid... (Would it be editing and re-editing the top post, thus generating crossposts where applicable?)
arethinn: glowing green spiral (Default)

[personal profile] arethinn 2011-12-28 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, I know, just musing aloud.
azurelunatic: Vivid pink Alaskan wild rose. (Default)

[personal profile] azurelunatic 2011-12-27 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Consider the Oh My God We Need Some Porn In Here Stat Porn Meme (contains textual porn) -- someone reading that might appreciate an index to what prompts existed without going through pages and pages, and of what existed, what had been filled (especially if not a writer and just reading through).
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2011-12-27 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
It was the one that sprang to mind, yes. :D
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Re: Very loosely paraphrased.

[personal profile] azurelunatic 2011-12-27 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
... ahahaahaha! :D
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Re: Very loosely paraphrased.

[personal profile] azurelunatic 2011-12-27 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
The story on why there is the link-to-me module on the bottom of the profile page: I was thinking about a problem with OpenID accounts (on the one hand: the internal "ext_#" username needed to be exposed less; on the other hand, people still needed to be able to know the "ext_#" username for OpenID users to link to them and such), and I got fed up of doing that, and fucked off to YouTube to procrastinate. Where YouTube's lovely copy-this-code-to-embed-or-link jumped out at me, and I ran screeching back to Bugzilla with the problem answered and the video forgotten.
arethinn: glowing green spiral (Default)

[personal profile] arethinn 2011-12-28 07:15 am (UTC)(link)
OK, not that far off then. (I was picturing an Anonymous Love Meme, where the index would be by username-as-thread, I guess.)
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2011-12-28 07:23 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, those are excellent candidates for indexing as well!
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[personal profile] yvi 2011-12-27 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
Doesn't sound too server-loady to me from my (limited) experience - not more load than people clicking through all comment pages to find something they like, which would also be several database requests instead of one.