The Moderation Package

The moderation package is intended to allow for more user participation in the journalistic aspects of a bitweaver website, ranging from simple user feedback on the quality of a news article to collaborative journalism.

The core functionality of the moderation package consists of the ability for users to give feedback on the quality of content on a bitweaver website. This is the fundamental function upon which all other functions of the moderation package are based. There are two decisions we will have to make regarding the implantation of this functionality:

1. The types of content we allow to be rated. Primary candidates are articles, comments, wikis, blogs and media files (e.g. images or sound files), but I imagine other types of content might qualify as well (e.g. users). This decision also largely depends on the technical feasibility.
2. The available methods of rating content. There currently appear to be three primary methods of rating content. The most common method is that of simply giving content a rating on a scale of 0-5, often represented by stars. Another method is that of the simple up/down vote, as employed by [http://digg.com|digg]. Finally, a method particularly popular for rating comments is the [http://www.slashdot.org|Slashdot] rating system.
The different methods have their strong and weak points, and often websites employ different methods for different types of content (e.g. articles vs comments). We will have to decide which method(s) of rating content we provide and whether we allow administrators choose between different rating methods for different types of content.

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Work in progress!
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