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Re: Save Caltrops! Implement review flags! by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/21/2014, 11:02am PDT
Mischief Maker wrote:

As has been said by multiple posters elsewhere, Caltrops/OMM have always been at their best when reviewing games, and at their worst (often fatally) when it devolves into a soap opera. Unfortunately, the current system for frontpaging reviews, (ICJ notices then hand-codes the link), is ineffective and many useful reviews get lost in the clutter. Useful reviews that could snag new readers.



I suggest implementing a new button next to preview and post by which posters can flag their posts as reviews.

Bonus: add a pull-down menu to select type of media (videogame, movie, TV show, webseries, book, comic book, etc.) and a radio button for (Positive/Neutral/Negative).

Super Bonus: Instead of listing the eight most recent posts on the frontpage, only list review-flagged posts, and just include the thread title, media type, and opinion.


I've been thinking about this a lot since you posted.

I think the following flow could work in the real world, and it is stuff I can code:

There's a button for "review" next to preview.

If you click the button, two drop down menus appear. One for media and one for positive!/negative!.

If you do it correctly, the post populates a new table on the DB for a review. We store the link, handle, date, pid and post contents. There is also a field that defaults to negative for "live."

A trigger on the DB then sends me an email so I know there's a review waiting. I can click on the link, authenticate, and make the post "live." This way we stop any positive reviews of Africa from appearing on the front page. Wait I meant HIV-positive! Reviewing an entire people as HIV-negative and having "negative" appear shouldn't cause any problems to outsiders.

Now from here it's easy to have an RSS feed with the latest, but the ideal is to have it show up as a Wordpress post. I know there's ways to make email appear as Wordpress articles. But for "phase one" we could have it appear in an RSS and be displayed on the site. I'd like it as a giant Wordpress article, myself.

I can code all of this. The only obstacle is I don't have the syntax for PHP memorized. If this was my job I could do it in a few days. I need a staging environment but I have so many Linux machines around the house at this point that that's fine. I also need to take the opportunity to fix the accented character problem (which is why Quentinbec's name doesn't show).

OK, first things first. I'll get a staging environment going. "Boys, let's get to it!" -- Michael Bolton


ICJ

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Save Caltrops! Implement review flags! by Mischief Maker 10/19/2014, 4:41am PDT NEW
    Review if the African Race by Jsoh Verdict: Negative NT by Worm 10/19/2014, 4:52am PDT NEW
        How would my idea implemented be any worse than what you just did? NT by Mischief Maker 10/19/2014, 7:53am PDT NEW
            Yes, the final verdict for the African race should of course be Positive by Eurotrash 10/19/2014, 4:43pm PDT NEW
                Wonderful work, tell me if you ever need a visa to escape Sharia Law. by Worm 10/19/2014, 8:49pm PDT NEW
                    Trash: a chance to get gay married across the ocean don't come around every day! NT by Entropy Stew 10/19/2014, 9:50pm PDT NEW
                Re: Yes, the final verdict for the African race should of course be Positive by TAFKAM 10/20/2014, 5:52am PDT NEW
        Is this a review then? Are you saying we promote this? NT by Souffle of Pain 10/19/2014, 9:12pm PDT NEW
    What is needed is an automated way to get post content into the CMS by Entropy Stew 10/19/2014, 11:47am PDT NEW
        Does the "reviews/articles" section need to be our own homebrewed thing? by Fullofkittens 10/19/2014, 12:14pm PDT NEW
            There's an editing process involved which is NOT pointy's strong suit by Entropy Stew stars as Kenny Logins 10/19/2014, 12:25pm PDT NEW
                Yet another chapter in the Entropy Stew saga of not doing things then insisting by Entropy Stew 10/19/2014, 12:27pm PDT NEW
                    TDARCOS levels of replying to oneself inc by Entropy Stew 10/19/2014, 12:41pm PDT NEW
        Re: What is needed is an automated way to get post content into the CMS by Mischief Maker 10/19/2014, 2:15pm PDT NEW
            Not saying it's a bad idea at all. I fucking love metadata. I'm all about metada by Entropy Stew 10/19/2014, 4:13pm PDT NEW
    If your review's conclusion is "neutral" then maybe don't post it. by Last 10/20/2014, 10:51am PDT NEW
        Last does not care for neutrality! by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/20/2014, 2:57pm PDT NEW
            Re: Last does not care for neutrality! by blackwater 01/16/2015, 10:37pm PST NEW
    Re: Save Caltrops! Implement review flags! by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/21/2014, 11:02am PDT NEW
        So much better than that "seperate but equal" forum idea. by Mischief Maker 10/21/2014, 11:10am PDT NEW
            Trigger Warning: Triggers by Entropy Stew 10/21/2014, 2:31pm PDT NEW
                Also, I think Worm missed my point. by Mischief Maker 10/21/2014, 2:41pm PDT NEW
                Re: Trigger Warning: Triggers by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/21/2014, 2:47pm PDT NEW
                    How about you just send a mail when they post the post? by Entropy Stew 10/21/2014, 3:05pm PDT NEW
            I can, but the flag will be a tiny Confederate one. NT by Ice Cream Jonsey 10/21/2014, 2:45pm PDT NEW
                D'oh! NT by Mischief Maker 10/21/2014, 3:11pm PDT NEW
 
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