It's really difficult to assign values to nodes and comments of widely differing lengths. This is a huge problem for me, I can't give a comprehensive article the same point value as a short snide post.

If it's at all possible, please implement a way to count points per word or character posted. That would be wonderful. Thanks!

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kbahey’s picture

kbahey commented
Project: User Points » User Points Contributed modules
Component: Code: userpoints_basic » Code

Well, length is not a measure of quality. Copy and paste from somewhere else will solve that "obstacle" as soon as they figure it out, and you will end up with lots of spam articles if length is the major criterion.

But, from the technical point of view, this can be a separate contrib module.

The new module needs to implement the hook_nodeapi, and check the number of characters or words in the node.

Similarly hook_comment can be called for comments.

Flying Drupalist’s picture

Flying Drupalist commented

You're absolutely right of course, but just in my specific use case it would be much preferable to have character rather than node count.

Thanks, I hope someone picks this up.

berdir’s picture

berdir
Primary language German
Location Switzerland
commented
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

Sorry for pinging the participants.

Now that Drupal 7 is out, there is no support for Drupal 5 and the
corresponding modules anymore. Therefore, I'm closing all old issues
which are still open.

I suggest you upgrade to Drupal 6 or 7 and figure out if you're feature
is still needed or the bug still exists and open a new issue in that
case.