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A non-voteable, user-updateable node?by jdporter (Paladin) |
on Mar 03, 2009 at 17:03 UTC ( [id://747811]=pmdevtopic: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I have a note, last hour of cb, which I update every 5 minutes via a bot running on perlmonk.org. As a note, it has two features which are irrelevant and distracting: links to parent and root, and vote buttons. I'd like to get the type of the node changed to something that doesn't have those features. My first thought was to make it a sitefaqlet, but the problem with that (and with many other node types one might think of for something like this) is that each update to the node would create an entry in the edit history table. For a node that gets updated as often as this one does, that would clearly be a Very Bad Thing. So I went looking for node types which satisfy these two requirements:
A handful of node types pass this filter. Most of those have other problems/restrictions which could make them unsuitable. In the end, the one that seems most likely is scratchpad. Therefore, I'm submitting a request to the gods to change the nodetype of last hour of cb from note to scratchpad. Q. Why not just make a new node, rather than changing the type of the existing one? A. There are already too many links to this node, by ID. These would break. Btw... I think it would also be nice to give ownership of this node to a site maintenance group, such as SiteDocClan or pmdev, but this is not strictly necessary, as long as no one but me expects to be able to update it. Thoughts? Update: Of course, this is the sort of functionality which should (at least by some points of view) be hosted directly on PerlMonks, rather than depending on an off-site bot. And actually, there are two off-site dependencies here: my bot on perlmonk.org gets its data from demerphq's bot on flux8.com. If either one goes down (and apparently, perlmonk.org goes down with some frequency) then this page is b0rked. So, the natural node type should really be superdoc, probably, or something akin to that. But creating such a beast is a bit beyond my skills atm. Update2: (2009-08-06) This has been done. The node in question was converted to type document, and ownership of it was given to SiteDocClan.
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