Goal

Make commenting cool in Plone.

Ressources

Commenting Workflow

Preventing Spam without Captchas (via Mr. Topf) an interesting approach that we should consider including as an additional, cheap measure. (LINK IS BROKEN!!!)

Use Cases

• Administrator (manages the system)
• Commentator (leaves comments, can be authenticated or anonymous)
• External Source (leaves comments, e.g. a trackback)

• Commentator leaves a comment
• Commentator edits a comment
• Commentator deletes a comment
  
• Administrator manages comments
• Administrator moderates a comment
• Administrator edits a comment
• Administrator deletes a comment
• Administrator changes commenting settings

• plone.app.relations

Discussion

• Martin Aspeli: Commenting in Plone (Mar. 2009)
  
• PLIP #179: Improved commenting infrastructure (Jan. 2008)
• MrTopf: A small report about plone.commenting (Nov. 2007)

Mock-ups

• HTML Mock-ups 

UI/Usability

• Weli.com: Comment Box UI Pattern
  
• Pattern Tab: Comment Design Patterns
• UI-Patterns.com: Comments