Chromatic On The Wiki Plugin For Slash

lisam writes: "The Wiki plugin integrates nicely with Slash and has a lot of cool features, says Chromatic who introduces Wikis and gives a detailed explanation of how and why the Wiki plugin works in this OnLamp article. (chromatic is coauthor of O'Reilly's upcoming Running Weblogs with Slash.)" A lot of people just think of Slashdot style sites when thinking of the Slash codebase, but this article goes on about how to extend slash in cool ways. If you are interested in plugins, the repository is a good place to start.

I wonder....

[IIOIOOIOO]

If the slash codebase could be extended to show when an Administrator moderates your comments?

haha, 3 mod downs, i'm not logged in stupids

[Anonymous Coward]

haha, 3 mod downs on parent first post, i'm not logged in stupid moderators. i guess everyone is jealous of my first post or maybe they just want me banned.

i was modded down first, hence i have indeed made a true first post. these other so called "first posts" showed up many seconds after mine.

and now an idea cmdrtaco should incorporate into the slashcode. include seconds on all posts, whether it be journal entries, comments, and everything else. this way it will eliminate flamewars between posters who fight over who has the real first post. if this was done before it would prove i have the real first post on this here story.

thank you

-metrollica

Chromatic's book

[Zico]

I've always thought chromatic had some interesting things to say here as a poster, and am curious about how much detail he goes into in his book about Slashcode. Also, not just the code itself, but the ethics involved in running such a site.

For example, does he (or do you, if you happen to be reading this, chromatic) go into things like the admins using "bitchslaps" on their users, and when they should/shouldn't. Or from a somewhat disturbing example from the past week (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=26315&cid=285 0660 [slashdot.org]), does he discuss things like scripts which flood the stories with "Offtopic" moderations, basically using (abusing?) the admin power to instantly try to squelch both user and moderator opinions? Any philosophical discussions about whether there is any point in giving users moderation power for any reason to shut them up for a while, seeing as there isn't really much point in moderation when some admin with a chip on his shoulder is going to come by and stomp on everyone's opinions by using his unlimited mod points to make sure that something stays marked "Offtopic" (over 250 so far)?

Good luck with the book, chromatic, like I was saying, you're one of the better posters here!

Wiki as a submission queue?

[ocelotbob]

I was reading the article when this sentance jumped out at me:

It would also be nice to be able to promote a page to a Story, but that's probably further down the road.

Why not use a wiki to handle the submission queue? Let users create articles in the wiki, and have the slashdot editors and other users suggest changes for making an article better before posting it on the main site. That way, marginal articles will be improved, the chance of factual errors is diminished, and story quality is increased. Once the story's good enough, just migrate it to the front page. Story rejection can be handled in a similar way as it currently is, witht the possible addition of having a story expire if there are no additions/changes after a given time frame.

Questions, comments?

Re:I wonder....

[Anonymous Coward]

Plastic.com's karma costs 2 points to mod down an article, vs 1 point to mod up... I think this works well with putting the focus on modding up instead of modding down.

And I also believe that most people here with mod points spend them all modding down people they don't agree with than modding up people they do... Thats not consistent with the spirit of free debate and discussion, imho..

And as such, I must post this anonymously out of fear of losing my precious karma to some idgit who doesn't "agree with me".. sigh..

Shouldn't this be a story on slashcode.com?

[Primer]

Can we mod the actual story -1 offtopic? Pretty soon we'll be seeing stories about Malda's personal life...

Modwiki!

[CatherineCornelius]

I'm struck by the idea of having a slash-style moderation system on top of a Wiki, with comment levels so you select the degree of potentially amusing noise you are prepared to tolerate. I normally run comments at level 3 but one or two trolls are in my friends list, so I get an interesting mix of very sensible and very stupid comments and I miss a lot of the me-too stuff. That might sound like a strange idea to apply to a Wiki, but I think it could be fun finding out if it works.