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

[sara]

*nods* Really, any activity where the action happens primarily in comments would benefit.