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  • From: Bear Kaufmann <bear@ursine-design.com>
  • To: Permaculture Plant Database <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] data/security model proposal
  • Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:50:28 -0800

Hi all,

Sorry to not be active in the discussion of late, been busy with other work....

o The elements of the current plant report that are titled Cultural
Notes, Propagation Notes, Known Hazards, Edible Uses, Medicinal
Uses, and Other Uses will become comments by PFAF attached to the
plant object (with a high score)

I like this basic model. It would be nice to figure out a way to visually characterize these as more unique...maybe different classes of Score have a rather different look. High = "bigger, bolder" more integrated (keeping the created by/at time discrete), fading out to being less integrated...(diverging from the background color?)

Should sub-comments be collapsable or be a user pref a la SlashDot (IIRC)?

Also, the one nice thing about a wiki is it's editing one blob of text....how can these attached comments roll into the main record effectively. Possibly arranged by human to make logical sense, not just chronological order. Maybe comments can be in a form of inline text, users can edit a Sort Order value (ie for logical flow, not value)....

OK, this writing brings up this vision:
First order (descended directly from Plant) "comments" receive a "box", or heading font, something that makes them special. Most comments below that are thought of as inline text. They receive a footnote number at their end which when [clicked | hovered] [opens | pops up] a [window | CSS box], with author info, date, and scoring links/menus. Comments with high ranks get a dark black color, fading towards the background color for low rank comments. (Users could choose to get a summary, with only the top 10%, 25%, percentile comments...)

New comments (Sort Order Rank = nil) are appended at the end of the First Order Comment box, and users/high ranking moderators can decide where in the text they belong, sort order is no longer nil and it no longer appears appended...


Cheers,
Bear





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