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

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

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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

Very loosely paraphrased.

[sara]

"Someone should index your porn meme, Dee. How'm'I supposed to write porn this weekend if I can't find the fucking prompts?"

"You could do it!"

"Oh, fuck that, I'm not manually indexing a porn meme on a Friday night. You own the service, you should build some shit that'll index the porn meme FOR me."

"That's not a bad idea."

"I know, I'll put it in your suggestions comm. Because you totally don't have enough spam in there already."

"You should, actually!"

"Really?!?"

"Yep."

"...righty-o, then."

Re: Very loosely paraphrased.

[azurelunatic]

... ahahaahaha! :D

Re: Very loosely paraphrased.

[sara]

Bog-laziness and dirty-mindedness: motivating technological innovation since the dawn of time.

Re: Very loosely paraphrased.

[azurelunatic]

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.

Re: Very loosely paraphrased.

[sara]

...you know, we've had that for so long that I sort of forgot we ever didn't have that. *goes and looks* Heyyy, I see what you did there.