[Developers] The possiblity to "comment" in Plone

John Sibert sibert at hawaii.edu
Sat Dec 1 11:54:02 PST 2012


Hans,
This seems like a good idea to me.

My only concern would be that commenters might provide erroneous or 
misleading information, which would be counter productive. It there some 
way to filter comments before they become generally visible?
John

John Sibert
Emeritus Researcher, SOEST
University of Hawaii at Manoa

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On 12/01/2012 08:15 AM, Hans J. Skaug wrote:
> ADMB Developers,
>
> Plone allows comments on pages like you see in online newpapers.
> Do we want this for the example collection? It will direct some
> future traffic away from the email user list (but we are not talking
> about large volumues of traffic, anyway). Are there security issues?
>
> I hope the example collection
>
> http://www.admb-project.org/examples
>
> will have lasting value. Thus, I am in favor of letting unregistered users comment on
> examples. It is an easy way of letting people add snippets of
> code without being registered as users.
>
> The plone manual says:
>
> "Your administrator can adjust the settings for the entire website to
> either allow or disallow comments from unregistered visitors."
>
> If we say YES I do not expect any short term effects, but it
> could be part of community building, make us look "young and dynamic" :-).
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Hans
>
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