Hoeray! I have a first core version of submission moderation up and

running.  This means people can submit stories, and moderators can
moderate stories.  When a submission reaches a certain positive
threshold (currently set to 2) the submission becomes a story and up
it goes.   If a submission reaches a certain negative threshold
(currently set to -2) the submission is dumped.

The fact this is all done by our visitors (without our intervention)
makes it truly spiffy imho.  The website can live a life on it's own,
fed by the visitors.

Beware, a lot of work need to be done though ... it's just a first
basic implementation with the core functionality.  There are quite
a lot of things that I'll need to change, extend and improve.  But
comments, suggestions and ideas are - as always - welcomed.

Please read this log message carefully!  It features quite a lot of
important information.

To test the moderation, log in, select theme 'Dries' (the other themes
need a small update) and head by clicking the one and only 'submission
moderation' link.  Don't be afraid to submit lame/funny/useless
stories for testing purpose ... as soon we go public, we'll wipe out
the story database.  ;-)


WHAT'S NEW?
-----------
* Added 2 new operations to user.class.php to set and retrieve the
  user's "history".  Very evil but required to avoid people voting
  twice.
* Moved dbsave() from account.php to functions.php.  In addition, I
  added a new function to user.class.php called `save()' that ...
  well, saves the object back to the database.  It's (IMHO) a better
  approach compared to dbsave(): it keeps things organized. ;-)


BUGFIXES:
---------
* Fixed a (heavy) memory leak in the constructor of user.class.php:
  mysql_fetch_array() returns an _associative_ array which made the
  constructor `pollute' the object with a lot of useless variables.
* Fixed the slash-problem on the account pages. :-)
* Fixed UnConeD's theme glitch, alas the warning.
* Fixed the e-mail address not showing in the confirmation email
  (upon registration).
* Fixed the typical quote and backslash problems in submit.php.
* submit.php now uses the database abstraction layer.

IMPORTANT:
----------
* You can check the new submission system at:
    http://beta.drop.org/submission.php
  or by following the `submission moderation' link from my theme.
* UnConeD, Jeroen: you'll need to update your themes to take
  advantage of the new function: displayAccount().  This function
  will display the `submission moderation' link when a user is
  logged on.
* Natrak: you might want to apply the patches in user.class.php
  on the other sites using the same user-system.

1 files changed, 25 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/config.inc b/config.inc
index 6eef82be2..7188db00e 100644
--- a/config.inc
+++ b/config.inc
@@ -21,6 +21,13 @@ $contact_email = "droppies@zind.net";
 $contact_signature = "Kind regards,\n\n-- the drop.org crew\nhttp://www.drop.org/";
 
 #
+# Notify:
+#   Set to '1' to receive an e-mail when news has been submitted
+#   through submit.php
+#
+$notify = 0;
+
+#
 # Notify information:
 #  The notify information will be used to send out automated mails
 #  for internal purpose.
@@ -44,12 +51,6 @@ $comments_meta_reasons = array('Off topic', 'Redundant', 'Insightfull', 'As is',
 #
 $categories = array('Announcements', 'Coding', 'Geeking', 'Drop.org', 'Gaming', 'Girls', 'Graphics', 'Hardware', 'Humor', 'Internet', 'Music', 'Movies', 'Politics', 'Science', 'Software', 'Space', 'Webdesign', 'Quickies');
 
-#
-# Notify:
-#   Set to '1' to receive an e-mail when news has been submitted
-#   through submit.php
-#
-$notify = 1;
 
 # 
 # Allowed HTML tags:
@@ -62,11 +63,28 @@ $allowableHTML   = array('B','/B','I','/I','P .*','P','/P','A .*','/A','LI','OL'
 $anonymous = "Anonymous Chicken";
 
 #
-# 
 # Default theme:
 #
 $cfg_theme = "default";
 
+#
+# Submission moderation votes:
+#
+// NOTE: changing $submission_votes will affect the integrity of your 
+//       database.  In short, the database field user.history will 
+//       become invalid, and will need to be reset! Please, do not 
+//       just change this setting unless you have an empty database 
+//       or unless you know what you are doing.
+$submission_votes = array("neutral (+0)" => "+ 0",
+                          "post it (+1)" => "+ 1",
+                          "dump it (-1)" => "- 1");
+
+#
+# Submission moderation thresholds:
+#
+$submission_post_threshold = "2";
+$submission_dump_threshold = "-2";
+
 # 
 # Debug flag:
 #   Set to '1' if you are using Windows so the engine won't try
@@ -74,12 +92,4 @@ $cfg_theme = "default";
 #   to '0'
 $system = 0;
 
-/*
-class config {
-  var $path = "/home/buytaert/public_html/projects/drop";
-}
-
-if (!$config) $config = new config();
-*/
-
 ?>
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