Sounds like a good idea. You might even consider having a
"voting_weight" score as part of each user's account. So, if their
comments get rated highly, then their votes will count for more.
Doesn't seem to hard to implement -- just make sure users can't
vote-up their own comments. ;)
Ok, well I implemented it tonight, without any fanciness for now. You
can see it in action on rails.outertrack.com. You can vote comments
up/down/spam.
I also added a quick ranking page:
http://rails.outertrack.com/notes/rankings
Another idea to make life easier on the committers: when a commentor
clicks to add a comment, it would likely be wise to have the resulting
text field accept RDoc marked-up text. With comments stored as RDoc,
That's a great idea! I'll add RDoc format as an input option and maybe
make it the default. Should be very quick to do.
I like your other ideas for picking pages that have lots of highly
modded comments. I'll probably implement something along those lines
too.. or err.. feel free to jump in and write a bit of code to do it.
cheers.
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Conor
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