"Promote" comment to top-level entry

[denise]

Title:
"Promote" comment to top-level entry

Area:
commenting, posting, centralizing all your stuff

Summary:
Since DW has extended comment length, I often find myself writing a mini-novella in comments (whether fiction or just me running off at the keyboard again). When the comments are in someone else's journal, I will frequently c&p that comment into a top-level entry in my own journal, so as to have all of my stuff together in one place. It would be nice to be able to do that automatically.

Description:
(I feel the need to say HEAR ME OUT BEFORE YOU MAKE A DECISION, based on goings-on Elsewhere. Heh.)

What I am envisioning for this feature is a checkbox on a comment, probably right after the "Check spelling and preview" checkbox: "Repost my comment to my journal as a new entry". Checking it would bring you to an update page, with the text of the comment pre-filled in the update box. You'd then be able to review the entry-to-be, in order to remove anything that doesn't make sense out of context, add a <cut> tag if necessary, choose your security level option, add metadata on the entry like current mood/music/tags/etc, and finally post the entry.

The commenter would be able to review the text of the entry-to-be before posting it, and there would be no 'official' indicator (ie, no "This comment reposted from the entry "Entry Title" made by username" or whatever). Because of that, there'd be fundamentally no difference than copying and pasting from the comment box, so I wouldn't see the need to remove the checkbox on locked entries or allow people to block others from using it in their journal. It would just be a shortcut for people who write extensive comments that wind up being worthy of a top-level entry of their own.

Poll #4520 "Promote" comment to top-level entry

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Should be implemented as-is.
56 (59.6%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
7 (7.4%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
10 (10.6%)

(I have no opinion)
20 (21.3%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.1%)

Comments

[green_knight]

I will iterate one of the concerns about LJs feature: allowing this on locked and filtered entries makes it easier for people to inadvertedly quote material that the public has no business seeing. Yes, people can copy-and-paste anyway, if they so desire, but handy crossposting autofill features make slips of the mouse more likely.

As you're not proposing to automate the process, my personal concerns would be alleviated if the update form sported a warning: This comment was written in response to a protected entry. Please ensure you are not quoting sensitive material'.
*However,* I can see people - individuals and communities - have concerns over this, so 'disable comment reposting' and 'disable comment reposting for protected entries' settings would be a really awesome way of proving that you take those concerns seriously. Many people use DW for intensely personal (and highly filtered) posts; and there are precious few places on the net where you get the feeling that your privacy is respected.


In accordance with adalger, I'd also like to extend it to 'post to my journal instead', because I've had that feeling of writing a very long comment and thinking 'that's a post' more than once.

[dzurlady]

I agree with this - I think it sounds interesting, but would feel more comfortable if it were disabled from protected posts.