Is there any way to give authors of an article the choice for how long to allow comments?
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015, 2:56 PM Gabriele Trombini <[email protected]> wrote: > Il giorno lun, 19/10/2015 alle 09.55 -0400, Paul W. Frields ha scritto: > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 03:19:31PM -0400, Justin W. Flory wrote: > > > On 10/16/2015 03:15 PM, Gabriele Trombini wrote: > > > > Il giorno ven, 16/10/2015 alle 14.55 -0400, Paul W. Frields ha > > > > scritto: > > > > > How do folks feel about time-limiting open comments on > > > > > articles? > > > > > We often see comments coming in on old articles. We can't > > > > > reasonably expect authors to monitor these forever. It seems > > > > > to > > > > > me like 30 days should be enough time to allow comments, > > > > > considering the curve of hits we see on the articles. > > > > > > > > > > What do other folks think? > > > > > > > > good point, sometimes I'm really bored about seeing comments on > > > > old > > > > posts; but there are some evergeen post we should leave open (e.g > > > > [1][2][3]) or open for a long time. > > > > > > > > IMO posts not related to the release or a specific version of > > > > software > > > > should be open for more than 30 days. > > > > How long? 90 days? 180? Forever? > > And what would you, as a commenter, a reader, or an editor, expect to > > happen with the comments left after a certain period? > > > > > > Is there a way (e.c. categories) to handle these terms? Are we > > > > able to > > > > distinguish amongst posts? Also, are we able to remind to the > > > > author > > > > his post is going to be closed, so he can ask to leave open if he > > > > considers that its cycle is not ended? > > > > > > > > [1]http://fedoramagazine.org/make-github-pages-blog-with-pelican/ > > > > [2]http://fedoramagazine.org/how_we_translate_fedora/ > > > > [3]http://fedoramagazine.org/use-fpaste-share-problem-reports/ > > > > > > > > > > I think having a category or some kind of tag to mark articles as > > > time-sensitive is a good idea - I also think there are some > > > articles that > > > might be better for a longer commenting period and others that are > > > useful > > > only for a specific window of time (as mentioned with specific > > > Fedora > > > releases). I think this also depends on the author's activity with > > > the > > > magazine too. > > > > The built-in function in Wordpress is global. Either comments are > > open, disabled on articles after a certain time period, or closed. > > > > I found a plugin that accomplishes what we want on an individual post > > basis: https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-expirator/ > > > > We should probably test that elsewhere before trying on the site. > > The > > plugin has a pretty low uptake, although it looks simple enough. > > > > -- > > > I'm guessing about categorized articles: > > A) general (like mine a couple of years ago [1], "how do you Fedora" > series[2] or groups related [3] and similar [4]-> no closing terms; > > B) events (Fudcon, Flock and so on) -> closed when new events happen (a > year?); > > C) election, meetings and so on - manually(?) closed when things are > over; > > D) Fedora/n: -> automatically closed every new release; > > E) Software, hardware, howtos and so on: -> manually(?) closed when > updated or rewrote; > > This is very hard to handle; it needs almost an admin manual check, so > I think we should determine deadlines for each category we would > maintain. > > On different perspective, I expect to happen: > > - as commenter: fill in a comment, waiting for author reply and going > on if we might discuss; guessing how long it can last it's really hard. > But probably those kind of comments become obsoletes when points D) and > E) above happen. > - as reader: the same of as commenter, difference is small. In this > case I'm only following the discussion amongst other people. > - as editor: I'm expecting a lot of people send me thanks for the > article and I'd be really glad to start a discussion and if it's a > generic article, seeing other's point of view and sometimes change my > opinion or change people's opinion. > > Either fedmag is a resource to browse, study, read, deepen and view as > a Fedora living historic memory or make it a sort of feed reader just > setting up a cold expiration date everywhere. > > That's what I think. > > Thanks Gabri > > > [1] http://fedoramagazine.org/we-are-everywhere-you-need/ > [2] http://fedoramagazine.org/major-hayden-how-do-you-fedora/ > [3] http://fedoramagazine.org/about-fedora-infrastructure/ > [4] http://fedoramagazine.org/join-fedora/ > > > > -- > marketing mailing list > [email protected] > List info or to change your subscription: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing -- Cheers Matthew "Lord Drachenblut" Williams
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