It would be cool to be able to see the number of replies to each node on the Newest Nodes page. (I was going to ask about putting the author next to each node on that page yesterday, but before I could Vroom had already implemented it!)

Also, it might be a good idea to reject postings with a blank subject or blank bodies.

And duplicate posts. Maybe a simple formula would work here:

if ($username eq "Merlyn") {
    $node->delete("duplicate 1");
    $node->delete("duplicate 2");
}
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Just kidding of course, Randal can post as many duplicates as he needs to, because everyone should burn his wisdom into their brain over and over. If you don't have Effective Perl Programming you should go get it. Now.

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