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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Thankfully, if you are so inclined, and
are wary of the performance issue, you can always use the <a
href="http://drupal.org/project/nodecomment">http://drupal.org/project/nodecomment</a>
module. Then all comments will be nodes, and you can tags with taxonomy any way
you want to.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Again, it is not really architecture
accident, but an intentional long debated design choice.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>-Greg<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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consulting-bounces@drupal.org [mailto:consulting-bounces@drupal.org] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>William Smith<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, August 26, 2007 2:49
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> A list for Drupal consultants
and Drupal service/hosting providers<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [consulting] to fix a
major limitation of Drupal design</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The issue isn't so much
that it can't be done, it is that it isn't likely to happen in core anytime
soon. This is one of the great never-ending debates in the Drupal
community -- should comments be nodes, or not? It gets heated, and it has
played out many times. <br>
<br>
If you want the ability to apply taxonomy terms to comments on your particular
site, it can certainly be done, and money can certainly buy it. If you
need a developer, I may have some available time later this week as I wrap a
couple of projects up. <br>
<br>
All the best,<br>
William<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmailquote><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'>On 8/26/07, <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>George
Por</span></b> <<a href="mailto:George@community-intelligence.com">George@community-intelligence.com</a>>
wrote: </span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=maroon face=Verdana><span
style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Verdana;color:maroon'>This is message is to
those brave souls who think that something can be done to fix a major
limitation of Drupal design.<br>
<br>
I am talking about the fact that only nodes can have categories and tags but
not comments. That means that a forum topic opener and blog can have them
individual blog entries and topic replies not, makes those key modules largely
useless from the perspective of growing the a group's capacity for
collaborative meaning making. <br>
<br>
I talked with many programmers and they all said that adding rags to comment
cannot be done in Drupal because of its architecture. Is it really so? No
amount of money could buy developer time to fix that? If any of you have a
serious proposal, we would consider it. <br>
<br>
When we used Drupal 4.6. And 4.7, we got that problem partially resolved by
using flexinode to mimick a blog, and then we could add tags to the entries.
However, we moved to 5.1 and, to my knowledge, flexinode doesn't work there.
Can that be changed? <br>
<br>
Another workaround would be to use Moveable Type or another dedicated blog
software and link the MT blogs fom our Drupal-based home page. However, in that
case we would loose the handiness of one search command working on all content
types at once. Any work around that? <br>
<br>
Best regards,<br>
<br>
george</span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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