[IMC-pgh-discuss] Fwd: Re: [IMC-pgh-editorial] Done with IndyMedia

[Quinten Steenhuis]

I don't think that disabling comments would work -- it would just result
in more junk news posts.

But we can go back to the default we had before -- comment titles are
listed in a little box that you can click on to read. San Francisco takes
this approach: http://sf.indymedia.org/news/2003/03/1590086.php

This makes it much more clear that the posts and comments are separate.
And you don't need to click on the comments unless you want to. It might
help with the time it takes to load a page as well now that we have so
many comments on our stories.

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On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Andy Mulkerin wrote:

> Hey all
>
> (Sorry this list is so high-traffic all of a sudden. But it's big times
> here.)
>
> While I've always been a proponent of indymedia as a movement unto itself,
> and not subservient to the "left" in general, I agree that the high volume
> of irrelevant comments is hindering us as an information clearinghouse. If
> it can be done, I'd really like to see the author of an article to be
> allowed to disable comments. Comments are nice, but not necessary to our
> project, I think.
>
> Tech kids, is this something that's doable, and how long do yinz think it
> would take?