X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/4558457402a4ab6bc795589a2e400fa66144f76e..dc635c70d4e06619a844eb824807dba961d6c95e:/doc/plugins/comments/discussion.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/comments/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/comments/discussion.mdwn index 3d7452b9a..227890bdd 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/comments/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/comments/discussion.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@ +## Syndication autodiscovery for comment feeds + +A standard `\[[!inline]]` directive adds links to the autogenerated syndication feeds using link tags in the header: + + + + +These links aren't added to my pages that include comments even though comments generate syndication feeds. How can I configure the comments plugin to add these links to the header? (These links are required for user-agent autodiscovery of syndication feeds.) --[[anderbubble]] + +## Moderating comments from the CLI + +How do you do this, without using the UI in the Preferences? + +Please put this info on the page. Many thanks --[[Kai Hendry]] + ## Why internal pages? (unresolved) Comments are saved as internal pages, so they can never be edited through the CGI, @@ -161,3 +176,43 @@ Raw HTML was not initially allowed by default (this was configurable). >>> all directives will contine to be inexpensive and safe enough that it's >>> sensible to allow users to (ab)use them on open wikis. >>> --[[Joey]] + +---- + +I have a test ikiwiki setup somewhere to investigate adopting the comments +plugin. It is setup with no auth enabled and I got hammered with a spam attack +over the last weekend (predictably). What surprised me was the scale of the +attack: ikiwiki eventually triggered OOM and brought the box down. When I got +it back up, I checked out a copy of the underlying git repository, and it +measured 280M in size after being packed. Of that, about 300K was data prior +to the spam attack, so the rest was entirely spam text, compressed via git's +efficient delta compression. + +I had two thoughts about possible improvements to the comments plugin in the +wake of this: + + * comment pagination - there is a hard-to-define upper limit on the number + of comments that can be appended to a wiki page whilst the page remains + legible. It would be useful if comments could be paginated into sub-pages. + + * crude flood control - asides from spam attacks (and I am aware of + [[plugins/blogspam]]), people can crap flood or just aggressively flame + repeatedly. An interesting prevention measure might be to not let an IP + post more than 3 sequential comments to a page, or to the site, without + at least one other comment being interleaved. I say 3 rather than 2 since + correction follow-ups are common. + +-- [[Jon]] + + +--- + +## Comment threads + +Any thoughts about implementing some simple threading in the comments? + +Or at least a reply functionality that quotes the subject/contents? + +-- [[iustin]] + +---