Community

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blockquote>Abstract: I will introduce several features to enable communities of users to create and manage categories directly. Users will be able to vote to combine terms or to move terms under one another in a hierarchy.

I don't know if anyone here is interested, but I just finished (?) an update to the og_forum module. You can find it here: http://drupal.org/node/121822

Things to note:

-It is compatible with Drupal 5.1.
-Each group can have multiple forums
-Regular (sitewide) forums can be used side-by-side
-Group context is set whenever applicable
-Both forum and og_forum paths work - they are interchangeable
-A trip to www.yoursite.com/forum (or og_forum) will show all forums available to the user whether that forum is general or within a group they are subscribed to

The Akismet module seems to take away allot of the comment/node spam, but still doesn’t work effectively on the other area's of Drupal. What Akismet for those who don’t know it does three things detect spam, mark spam, unmark spam. Though it cant really solve the problem of register spam or other modules spam as good as it does for comments/nodes. So what values can we work with ?

comment_type
May be blank, comment, trackback, pingback, or a made up value like "registration".
comment_author

Adrian provides a potential solution for me to easily set up and host groups.mysite.com with his MultiDomain, UserDomains, and OGDomains modules. I believe this can help in the set up of community and social networking sites.

Here's a link to some basic info in which he describes the MultiDomain module and his plans for two closely-related follow-on modules.

I'm looking forward to testing the above modules. Thanks Adrian!!!

Read on for specific info.

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I've been thinking about some of the specifics of creating a personal workspace within Drupal -- although my main area of interest is education, these thoughts have applications outside education -- these are some rough notes, and I'm curious to see/hear reactions about what I'm missing/overlooking. These notes are not intended to be comprehensive, but a starting point in a conversation about some specific functionality

Some basic functionality--

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To accomplish this, I was thinking about some integration between BuddyList (http://drupal.org/project/buddylist) and the ACL (http://drupal.org/project/acl) or NodeAccess (http://drupal.org/project/nodeaccess)module -- members of a user’s Buddylist can be used to form an access control list on a node by node basis-- I’m leaning toward the ACL module as I think a generalized API that can be used by other modules provides some advantages long term. However, was the ACL module designed to work primarily with roles, or with individual users?

On the drupal shop talk call today the issue of spam user registration came up (see notes). Laura suggested asking the question here.

How are people dealing with spam (in all its forms)
1) spam user registrations
2) spam content
3) comment spam

are you using Captcha or other user challenges?
Heavy moderation?
user based spam flagging?

let's here it!

I'm in the middle of launching my community website with the "community" aspect of it being driven by organic groups. Out of the box, drupal comes with a couple of types of content - pages and stories. Then you might add forums and blog (it seems to be a best practice to have a site development blog) and you have 4 different content types that could be used in organic groups.

How does one decide what type of content to allow?

I've reasoned that when users join groups and post content, it takes one of 2 forms - an announcement or a topic for discussion. An announcement might be something like, "Hey, we're all going to play touch football at Jones Beach at 4pm tomorrow. Be there or be square," where as a discussion topic is more along the lines of "what do we all thing about xyz." Now, do you think that "announcements" should be a different content type than "discussions?" With announcements, you sort of want them to be visible (think group homepage) and comments may not matter too much, whereas with discussions, it's all about people responding.