<p dir="ltr">Is there any way to give authors of an article the choice for how long to allow comments?</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Oct 19, 2015, 2:56 PM Gabriele Trombini <<a href="mailto:g.trombini@gmail.com">g.trombini@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Il giorno lun, 19/10/2015 alle 09.55 -0400, Paul W. Frields ha scritto:<br>
> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 03:19:31PM -0400, Justin W. Flory wrote:<br>
> > On 10/16/2015 03:15 PM, Gabriele Trombini wrote:<br>
> > > Il giorno ven, 16/10/2015 alle 14.55 -0400, Paul W. Frields ha<br>
> > > scritto:<br>
> > > > How do folks feel about time-limiting open comments on<br>
> > > > articles?<br>
> > > > We often see comments coming in on old articles. We can't<br>
> > > > reasonably expect authors to monitor these forever. It seems<br>
> > > > to<br>
> > > > me like 30 days should be enough time to allow comments,<br>
> > > > considering the curve of hits we see on the articles.<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > What do other folks think?<br>
> > ><br>
> > > good point, sometimes I'm really bored about seeing comments on<br>
> > > old<br>
> > > posts; but there are some evergeen post we should leave open (e.g<br>
> > > [1][2][3]) or open for a long time.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > IMO posts not related to the release or a specific version of<br>
> > > software<br>
> > > should be open for more than 30 days.<br>
><br>
> How long? 90 days? 180? Forever?<br>
> And what would you, as a commenter, a reader, or an editor, expect to<br>
> happen with the comments left after a certain period?<br>
><br>
> > > Is there a way (e.c. categories) to handle these terms? Are we<br>
> > > able to<br>
> > > distinguish amongst posts? Also, are we able to remind to the<br>
> > > author<br>
> > > his post is going to be closed, so he can ask to leave open if he<br>
> > > considers that its cycle is not ended?<br>
> > ><br>
> > > [1]<a href="http://fedoramagazine.org/make-github-pages-blog-with-pelican/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://fedoramagazine.org/make-github-pages-blog-with-pelican/</a><br>
> > > [2]<a href="http://fedoramagazine.org/how_we_translate_fedora/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://fedoramagazine.org/how_we_translate_fedora/</a><br>
> > > [3]<a href="http://fedoramagazine.org/use-fpaste-share-problem-reports/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://fedoramagazine.org/use-fpaste-share-problem-reports/</a><br>
> > ><br>
> ><br>
> > I think having a category or some kind of tag to mark articles as<br>
> > time-sensitive is a good idea - I also think there are some<br>
> > articles that<br>
> > might be better for a longer commenting period and others that are<br>
> > useful<br>
> > only for a specific window of time (as mentioned with specific<br>
> > Fedora<br>
> > releases). I think this also depends on the author's activity with<br>
> > the<br>
> > magazine too.<br>
><br>
> The built-in function in Wordpress is global. Either comments are<br>
> open, disabled on articles after a certain time period, or closed.<br>
><br>
> I found a plugin that accomplishes what we want on an individual post<br>
> basis: <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-expirator/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wordpress.org/plugins/comment-expirator/</a><br>
><br>
> We should probably test that elsewhere before trying on the site.<br>
> The<br>
> plugin has a pretty low uptake, although it looks simple enough.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
><br>
I'm guessing about categorized articles:<br>
<br>
A) general (like mine a couple of years ago [1], "how do you Fedora"<br>
series[2] or groups related [3] and similar [4]-> no closing terms;<br>
<br>
B) events (Fudcon, Flock and so on) -> closed when new events happen (a<br>
year?);<br>
<br>
C) election, meetings and so on - manually(?) closed when things are<br>
over;<br>
<br>
D) Fedora/n: -> automatically closed every new release;<br>
<br>
E) Software, hardware, howtos and so on: -> manually(?) closed when<br>
updated or rewrote;<br>
<br>
This is very hard to handle; it needs almost an admin manual check, so<br>
I think we should determine deadlines for each category we would<br>
maintain.<br>
<br>
On different perspective, I expect to happen:<br>
<br>
- as commenter: fill in a comment, waiting for author reply and going<br>
on if we might discuss; guessing how long it can last it's really hard.<br>
But probably those kind of comments become obsoletes when points D) and<br>
E) above happen.<br>
- as reader: the same of as commenter, difference is small. In this<br>
case I'm only following the discussion amongst other people.<br>
- as editor: I'm expecting a lot of people send me thanks for the<br>
article and I'd be really glad to start a discussion and if it's a<br>
generic article, seeing other's point of view and sometimes change my<br>
opinion or change people's opinion.<br>
<br>
Either fedmag is a resource to browse, study, read, deepen and view as<br>
a Fedora living historic memory or make it a sort of feed reader just<br>
setting up a cold expiration date everywhere.<br>
<br>
That's what I think.<br>
<br>
Thanks Gabri<br>
<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="http://fedoramagazine.org/we-are-everywhere-you-need/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://fedoramagazine.org/we-are-everywhere-you-need/</a><br>
[2] <a href="http://fedoramagazine.org/major-hayden-how-do-you-fedora/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://fedoramagazine.org/major-hayden-how-do-you-fedora/</a><br>
[3] <a href="http://fedoramagazine.org/about-fedora-infrastructure/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://fedoramagazine.org/about-fedora-infrastructure/</a><br>
[4] <a href="http://fedoramagazine.org/join-fedora/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://fedoramagazine.org/join-fedora/</a><br>
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