I'm launching a new drupal site that will have no audience at first, and I'm reluctant to enable comments immediately since it would just display to all the new visitors that no one is yet participating.
First, I'll just throw it out there wondering how you all would deal with that. But one of the ideas I had, along with disabling comments, was to enable a "leave comment for author" link at the bottom of each entry. It would be like a feedback/comment form, but attached to the node, and maybe the subject line would make automatic reference to the node in question. Seems like a good way to gauge how much interactivity each node would inspire, without displaying to the world one's early unpopularity. :)
Any ideas on how to easily accomplish this? I've played around with the "comment" built-in module, and also the "feedback" module, but both seem to be for sitewide feedback pages.
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not too hard
This would not be hard with a little custom coding- maybe a small module. The only issue it whether you want the feedback to go to each post's author, or to the site admin.
Here's some code that might get you started: http://drupal.org/node/73973
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