Since people have begun talking about the idea of hosting/using this system within the ASF, I've added some more kinks to the system now.
Those of you who have created an account (or those who create one and let me know) will now see a "moderate" link when they are viewing comments while logged in. This will take them to a new moderator site, where it's possible to track the latest activity, delete threads and track specific origins (origin tracking only applies to posts made after I revamped the moderator system, so old posts can't be tracked). An origin is basically a digest of an IP address (to both preserve the privacy policy and get rid of any trouble with IPv4/IPv6 mingling), and it allows you to either ban an origin from posting, view and delete any comments made by that origin or simply nuke everything ever posted by that origin. You can also opt in or out of receiving email notifications when a new post is being made (and opting in/out on a specific page is in the works). If you like, you can also register new sites to be used with the comment system. If you want to test out the features, be my guest and spam away on the trunk pages, so you can nuke your own origin to bits :) If this moves to infra, the plan is to use the committer IDs as your new login, so all committers essentially become moderators, but will still have to opt in in order to receive email notifications of new posts on the site (unless it's a reply to their own post, in which case they'll get a reply anyway) With regards, Daniel.
