Anyone know of a way to create a "Recommended Blogs/Diaries" area on the sidebar. I would be glad for any solution that uses the built-in Drupal "submission que" voting, or the Nmoderation module voting results. I am really interested in this, as I am creating a community blog and I believe that the "Recommended Diaries" feature on DailyKos is, perhaps, the biggest reason for that site's success. Thanks!

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grohk commented

I am working on a a few ideas for blocks to be included with this module. I am very new to php, so progress is slow to say the least.

My idea is for two blocks: one that returns the current voting status on the node being viewed, and the second to display nodes that have been highly rrecommended.

These other feature requests are very similar in scope.
http://drupal.org/node/14716
http://drupal.org/node/13996

Could you please help flesh out this request by helping me to refine the specs? I hope to get these block into the 4.6 version of the module if not sooner.

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calebgilbert commented

Hi grohk,

Thanks for your reply. Am ecstatic that someone is working on this.

As far as the spec goes, my conception is fairly simple (not necessarily from a coding standing-point, maybe): Make a sidebar list of n-entries, which are listed in order of highest ranked to lowest ranked, based on the cumulative vote point-totals. Some kind of "limit the number of days allowed on the list" would be good to.

Actually, my "spec" above is not actually keeping with the Scoop "Recommended Diaries" feature. Theirs is based on a simple "recommend" vote, cumulative # of "recommended" votes received, and some type of algorithm which weights how rapidly the votes are received AND depricates the positioning on the "Recommended" list based on how long it's already been on there. I figure this might be asking too much at this point though. :-)

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calebgilbert commented

grohk - please let me know if you need any help (tester, etc). Email: cgilbert001 at hotmail.com

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thomherfs commented

I'm very interested in this feature also, however at the moment I can't even get the module to install on the current CivicSpace RC without a critical MySQL error. The error has been an open bug in this module going back to May of 2005 apparently without resolution.

grohk, if you have an actual working version of nmoderation for 4.6.5/0.8.3 (or an explanation of the MySQL error during configuration that is documented in the bug section), I'd be very interested in it. I'm also very interested in the extensions to the module that you mentioned. This kind of community-moderation functionality is critical for a couple of sites I'm working on, and it was quite an unpleasant surprise to run into a long-standing bug in a module that's been around as long as this one and is talked about as a solution on the forums whenever post moderation/promotion is mentioned.

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