2007-12-20
Comment System Added
This website seems to drift more towards being a "blog" every day. I've added a comment posting system where readers can submit public comments (after moderation) on all articles.
It is pretty simplistic (i.e. non-threaded, no accounts) but supports a subset of the wikitext rendering language for users to mark-up their posts. I was considering using striptags(), but decided instead to just utilise the existing Renderer infrastructure. I may come to change my mind about this, normal HTML mark-up is more widely understood (but wikitext is more expedient IMO).
Threading was considered an unnecessary feature at this point, and accounts an excessive barrier to use. Persistent accounts would have some value in supporting pre-population of the author's details and identity protection, but I think we can all deal with typing our name each time.
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