News You Can Bruise for 2003 October 22

(6) Wed Oct 22 2003 08:25 State Of The Comment System: OK, back to your regular, non-mysterious stuff. The comment system is coming along quite nicely. Here's the stuff I have to do next time I have free time (probably Thursday, as tonight is dinner and TV night with Sumana).

Comment author cookie so you don't have to keep typing in your stuff
Keep track of recent annotations and provide an RSS feed, as well as an SSI to get the "recent comments" effect you see, eg. on Steve's weblog.
Better validation for the author fields
Comment permalinks (I tried doing this early this morning, but it turns out I have to change the template system to get it to work properly).
Mention comment spam guess next to comment.
Replace current "You don't see anything with spam probability >50" system with more flexible user-specified filter system.
Automatically shut off comments for entries past a certain age and/or with a certain amount of time since the last comment.
Send email to admin when a comment or trackback comes in.
Import of Bayesian classification data from a Cheatsheet file.

Stuff you don't care about because it's internal:

Create separate screens for posting comments and marking them as spam.

Of course, since basically all the comment stuff is in one file, you could hack on it yourself instead of waiting for me.