+ > Here, FWIW, is the first ikiwiki comment spam I've seen:
+ > <http://waldeneffect.org/blog/Snake_bite_information/#blog/Snake_bite_information/comment_1>
+ > So that took about 10 days...
+ > --[[Joey]]
+
+ >> Implemented in my 'comments' branch, please review. It turns out
+ >> [[plugins/remove]] is happy to remove internal pages, so it was quite
+ >> easy to do. --[[smcv]]
+
+* There is some common code cargo-culted from other plugins (notably inline and editpage) which
+ should probably be shared
+
+ > Actually, there's less of this now than there used to be - a lot of simple
+ > things that were shared have become unshareable as they became more
+ > complex. --[[smcv]]
+
+ > There's still goto. You have a branch for that. --[[Joey]]
+
+## Won't fix
+
+* It would be useful to have a pagespec that always matches all comments on
+ pages matching a glob. Something like `comment(blog/*)`.
+ Perhaps postcomment could also be folded into this? Then the pagespec
+ would match both existing comments, as well as new comments that are
+ being posted.
+
+ > Please see [[plugins/comments/discussion]]. If I've convinced you that
+ > internal pages are the way forward, then sure, we can do that, because
+ > people who can comment still won't be able to edit others' comments
+ > (one of my goals is that commenters can't put words into each other's
+ > mouths :-) )
+ >
+ > On the other hand, if you still want me to switch this plugin to "real"
+ > pages, or if internal pages might become editable in future, then
+ > configuring lockedit/anonok so a user X can add comments to blog pages
+ > would also let X edit/delete comments on blog pages (including those
+ > written by others) in arbitrary ways, which doesn't seem good. --[[smcv]]
+
+ > I had a look at implementing comment() and fell afoul of
+ > some optimisations that assume only internal() will be used to match
+ > internal pages. So probably this isn't worth doing. --[[Joey]]
+
+## Done