[development] comments as nodes

[Vivek Puri]

Actually comments as node makes lot of sense specially
for community driven sites where comments have equal (
sometime more ) weight when compared to node. If I am
not wrong there was some discussion before too that it
makes some operation easier like splitting threads,
escalating comments , etc. 

--- Robert Douglass <rob at robshouse.net> wrote:

> Since it came up, I'll draw everyone's attention to
> the nodecomment 
> module which makes comments into nodes. Rather, it
> uses one node type to 
> be the comment type of another node type. To me (and
> the other 
> Lullabots) this makes a lot of sense. All that is
> needed is a 1:n 
> mapping between a parent and its children and some
> special display. What 
> makes the nodecomment module really special,
> however, is that the 
> rendering of the "comments" is handed off to the
> views module (which is 
> a requirement), so you could display your comments
> in totally 
> non-traditional ways, such as in a table or in a
> calendar.
> 
> One of the most useful applications that this module
> has found is also 
> the impetus for its creation: voting widgets in the
> comments that vote 
> on the parent node. I'm creating a site, for
> example, where the comments 
> are all ratings of the parent node, and each comment
> needs to have four 
> separate fivestar widgets. To do this, the comment
> node type has four 
> CCK fields from the fivestar module where the target
> of the voting is 
> set as arg(1)... meaning the fields belong to the
> comment nodes but the 
> votes belong to the parent node. Very cool.
> 
> We've had clients who have requests like wanting to
> promote comments to 
> the front page, or rate comments, or categorize
> comments etc. This 
> module fills those needs.
> 
> The release says it is beta, and I stick by that,
> but it is worth noting 
> that this beta code probably serves 5 million page
> views a day or more 
> on live (rockstar) websites.
> 
> -Robert
> 
> http://drupal.org/project/nodecomment
> 



 
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