Document Aggregating System?

[Cramulus]

I'm looking for a system which accomplishes the following task:

Users must register in order to upload or vote.

Documents (or links to documents) are submitted by users.

Users can comment on documents, and may vote by giving the document 1-5 stars.

If the document passes a certain vote threshold, it is automatically moved to an OFFICIAL area.



Does anybody know of a system which might work for this?




I want to use it for the Dreaming LARP, as a means of aggregating user-submitted content, but it could also be VERY useful for organizing documents, booklets, Intermittens, guides, anything where there are multiple articles submitted by multiple users.



also, I'm looking for somebody with a little bit of CSS knowhow to help me re-layout the dreaming site. It's a bit busy right now, hard to read, hard to find what you're looking for. If anybody is willing to help poke around, I will be in your blowjob debt.

[Triple Zero]

Sounds a littlebit like Digg or Reddit but on a smaller scale, or something? I dunno, maybe there's software out there that is like "run your own Digg".

I could search for it, but I should really get back to work.

One idea that could *possibly* work is (again) WordPress, with a few tweaks. Basically you can register users as "contributors" to the blog, you could be super-user/admin and select what their permissions may be.

They could submit their document as links in blog posts, or perhaps as an attachment to a blog post.

Then the regular commenting system on blog posts can be used for people to comment on the docs.

I'm fairly confident that there should be some kind of 5-star rating plugin for WordPress. Would be surprised if there wasn't.

Then what's left is the treshold thing. Depending on how well the 5-star rating plugin works. But if you had all of that set up, a few lines of code (I could write) would be enough to implement IF post.rating > treshold THEN blog.addCategory('OFFICIAL').

Then you'd have an OFFICIAL category which would be displayed at yoursite.com/blog/categories/OFFICIAL/ or something.

Just sketching an idea.

Of course this is a rather DIY solution. But it's the best I can come up with.


As for helping you with CSS, was that what you were gonna ask me on AIM a few days ago? Ask me again in a few days I really couldnt say I have time or not right now.

Additionally, I just wanted to say, I still haven't had the time to read much about the Dreaming, but I do want to check it out. Slightl possibility I could even get a friend or two to join as well. None of us has experience with boffers or LARPing btw. Where do I start?

[Cramulus]

Sounds a littlebit like Digg or Reddit but on a smaller scale, or something? I dunno, maybe there's software out there that is like "run your own Digg".

I could search for it, but I should really get back to work.

One idea that could *possibly* work is (again) WordPress, with a few tweaks. Basically you can register users as "contributors" to the blog, you could be super-user/admin and select what their permissions may be.

They could submit their document as links in blog posts, or perhaps as an attachment to a blog post.

Then the regular commenting system on blog posts can be used for people to comment on the docs.

I'm fairly confident that there should be some kind of 5-star rating plugin for WordPress. Would be surprised if there wasn't.

Then what's left is the treshold thing. Depending on how well the 5-star rating plugin works. But if you had all of that set up, a few lines of code (I could write) would be enough to implement IF post.rating > treshold THEN blog.addCategory('OFFICIAL').

Then you'd have an OFFICIAL category which would be displayed at yoursite.com/blog/categories/OFFICIAL/ or something.

Hey yeahhh!

I'm sniffing around and seeing that reddit's code is opensource, and there are a number of do-it-yourself digg clones out there. Setting one up takes a bit more codework than I'm capable of though. Wordpress might be a good solution.

As for helping you with CSS, was that what you were gonna ask me on AIM a few days ago? Ask me again in a few days I really couldnt say I have time or not right now.

no, it was the aggregating tool thing.

if you feel like taking a dip in the css pool, I could totally use help, but I know your energy is limited.

Additionally, I just wanted to say, I still haven't had the time to read much about the Dreaming, but I do want to check it out. Slightl possibility I could even get a friend or two to join as well. None of us has experience with boffers or LARPing btw. Where do I start?

luckily there are a few single player adventures you can go on if you don't want to get into the boffer thing.

To get started with the whole idea, here's the game introduction and the setting introduction. (need to be updated, sadly!)

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

Make a subreddit for your friends or maybe use Basecamp and keep track of the votes separately?