Your thoughts>Mod Idea or Combo of Existing Mods?

[bupaje]

I have an idea and not sure if this could be done with some combination of existing modules or what. I am not 100% sure I can explain it right so I created a quick diagram which may help.



Basically I want to enlist users to extract tips, tutorials and game programming code from a very busy forum I hang out in. I want them to submit the code, with some info original author, url of original post, basic description etc and have this be red flagged. Peole can access the code and use it but know it is untested/unverified. I want to allow comments and suggested changes all through the process. As people use it someone can vote to promote and another person can second that vote. A final vote, perhaps by a more knowledgeable groups of users (?) will allow it to be yellow flagged. This yellow flagged content can be used, users know with a bit more certainty that it is more reliable and it goes through the same comment, and voting process until the green code which is code that has proven reliable and has been widely verified. If the code/tutorial 'breaks' (new game engine version for example) then people would check it and if confirmed it would be demoted and begin the process again.

I had something like this custom built long ago by a friend for an old programming site. It works well because it allows the users to manage the content -and there are several thousand users- as opposed to me trying to do it esp since I am not a programmer.

Hope this makes sense. Suggestions, ideas about some product that might do something like this already or some combination of mods that I could use to get a similar effect -just not seeing it now.

[bupaje]

Guess this wasn't too clear as I get no response but to further clarify I see it as three different repositories -red, yellow and green and code is moved back and forth as it is tested by a vote and comment system.

I don't have much money but if someone creates something like this down the line that can meet this need and is useful for other things I can contribute $40 I have sitting in PayPal. It isn't enough for a custom built program but but if someone is working on something similar and say has to just add the flags to make it work then maybe it will be some incentive.

[kweitzel]

Hi Bupaje, it seems like nobody is working on this kind of system ... are you shure there is not a system out which you could adapt?

cheers

Klaus

[bupaje]

I'm not sure. It would help if I knew of some system to do something similar - don't even know what to search for. I am looking around and try to see what is possible.

[pcwacht]

Question,

The code and stuff stays in the forum or does the module needs to that as well
If not it would be easier.

John

[bupaje]

I'd rather have them add the code. If I have money some day I might pay to have some work done. It is worth looking at more tools for users for sites that are heavily content driven. In some ways it is the same concept as Wikipedia -allowing the huge volume of users to manage data with the site owner providing vision, direction and tools.

[pcwacht]

Could you set up a database layout of the needed fields?
Allso the codesnippets and files where should they go to and wich permission schema should there be?

I think this could be usefull as well for groups of students working on a same project
or group of coders working on a same project etc

Not saying I have time to create it......

been bizzy reworking on the manual mod
allso bizzy creating an article mod
and loads of other stuff wich comes along

but maybe I can give you some more thoughts on the matter

In the meantime have a look at my catalogs module wich is basicly an reworked news module
http://www.websitebaker2.org/forum/index.php/topic,10465.0.html
it has extra userfileds and allso commenting is still in place
Maybe you can use that as a start?

Have Fun!
John

[bupaje]

Hmmm... I guess maybe with some minor editing your module could.

I was thinking it could all be one database. All it needs are the ability to set the flags, then sort by flags. So if you change a code to green it would show in the green list. In that case -dreaming some more- it might be good to have an list/rss of changes on the front page "Code 212: Make a form Was promoted to green" since this would help people  find stuff as it moved around. It would still need commenting and voting to promote/demote items.

I like the idea of having custom fields like in your catalog module - more versatile. If those fields could also alternately show an image based on the value.

ie pseudocode

vote.value = 10
//flag 1 = green
//flag 2 =yellow
//flag 3 = red
flag.value = 2

Vote: [vote_image(value).jpg]
Flag: [flag(value).jpg]

allowing images this way in addition to text would open up the uses.