By jossbrown@groups.drupal.org on

Is there a way in Drupal 5.1 to duplicate the "Recommend This Diary" feature of Scoop (the way it is used on DailyKos.com)? I notice that the Republican site Redstate.org uses Drupal, and they have the Recommend feature, but I can't find what module they are using and I think they may have written it themselves.

The difference between the Scoop Recommend-This thing and voting modules like Five Star is that the weight of the recommendation automatically lessens over time (i.e., after 6 hours, it is only worth half the initial value or something like that). So, the list of Recommended Blog posts changes automatically over time.

Is there a way to do that in Drupal without writing a custom module? TIA.

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vm commented

investigate the content recomendation engine aka CRE.module

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jossbrown@groups.drupal.org commented

Thanks for the very quick reply.

I checked CRE, but it seems to automatically recommend content for an individual user based on kinds of content they have voted on and liked in the past. That sounds very useful---and I'm probably going to use it.

However......the Scoop-like system is more general and designed to simply let users vote certain blog posts into a sort of "Best Blog Posts" list that appears in a block. Another block has the "Recommend This Post" button with a list of who recommended it underneath. The recommendations are not tailored to the reader---they are more of an incentive to bloggers to try to get on the list of "Recommended Blogs."

Also, the value of an individual recommendation changes with time. A blog post might be on the list today if it received six recommendations right after posting, but slip off the list tomorrow if no one continues to recommend it. The "weight" of the score takes into account not only the number of recommendations, but how recent the recommendations were.

So.....anything else in development or hiding away in someone's sandbox that allows this kind of calculation-based scores? Thanks.

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vm commented

Ahh, sounds like you may want to investigate the vote up/down module with the voting actions module although there are quite a few voting modules in the downloads area that may be of interest. the voting evaluation section is here: http://drupal.org/project/Modules/category/60

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parajeff commented

...but it hasn't been updated to 5.x

It is precisely the Scoop "Recommend This Diary" feature as you describe (with the time calculation) and it is (as far as I know) the module that Redstate is using on their site. I'm not sure if they've upgraded to 5.1 or are still using 4.7 though...

Here is the link to Drumm's module, if you want to try your hand at updating it:

http://drupal.org/project/recommended_nodes

I've been attempting an update on the module, but I'm more of a designer than a coder. I've got it partially done, but it is throwing this error:

warning: call_user_func_array(): First argumented is expected to be a valid 
callback, 'recommend_node' was given in /home/.../public_html/includes/form.inc on line 218

I've done a search for this kind of error but haven't found anything useful (to me) so far. I'm not sure what is causing it.

I've got the settings form showing up properly, and can set the initial points and half-life time of points for the module. The block shows up on a post. Permissions seem to be okay -- but the submit button doesn't show on the block on the blog page and this error above shows up when browsing to a post. (Any suggestions on what to look at to fix this and finish the module update gratefully accepted.)

I'll post if I get it working (and submit a patch), but you might have better luck if your coding skills are better. Please let me know if you do.

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jossbrown@groups.drupal.org commented

Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Unfortunately, I don't have the skill to update it to work with Drupal 5.1 so I hope that either Drumm decides to update it or it gets updated by you or someone else. Please let me know if you update it yourself.

Thanks.

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I know nothing about this and never used scoop, but the description for http://drupal.org/node/66596 is "Clone of Scoop's system." so maybe something of use there?

Michelle

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jossbrown@groups.drupal.org commented

It adds and subtracts from member's reputation as other members vote on them as helpful or not, and as they contribute to the life of the website.

Members with higher karma in scoop systems, for example, can see posts that are hidden from general members, or can vote spam, troll or off-topic posts by general members out of sight.

The Recommended Diaries aspect of scoop is different. Thanks, however, for pointing out the karma module. I'm going to check it out and see if it will work on Drupal 5.1 because it would be very useful.

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perien commented

Any help??

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