How to use Promote/Bury

Yes, I installed Extra Voting Forms provided by Merc. I am able to actually vote on the individual comments, however I would like to promote and bury them.

Thank you for the quick reply!

Written to be used in the forums... I see. Well what I am trying to do is use your module to bury the horrible comments, not so worried about generally bad ones. But that isn't really my concern. What I am looking to do is promote the best comment.

Ideally a user submits an article. Mods publish articles. User that submits (author) has voting bonus of a substantial amount, therefore if they vote for a particular comment it is deemed best comment. However, if author does not vote then users will determine best answer.

I was able to get the burying abilities to work, its just setting a threshold or timeframe for best comment. And also displaying the best comment.

I'm unsure if my ramblings are coherent, but please let me know if they are not so I can clarify.

Thanks in advance!

Something like Digg, but not so much with content, rather with the comments. Merc actually has made a Digg replicate for Drupal called Drig.

http://www.drigg.org/

I'm not really looking for that, although I could possibly use it.

I really appreciate the help. However, I have the bury the comments feature working. It works great. I'm not too concerned with collapsing the comment and re-opening it as Prodigy requested.

I on the other hand am trying to understand how promoting works. On another issue Merc stated

"the module is used to find the best voted comment. It won't sort them by votes, and won't promote the "parent". It will just, simply, promote the node with the most votes.

How do you see this promoted node. I have comments with votes, but nothing ever gets promoted. Am I missing a threshold or a duration somewhere?

Thanks in advance!

As a side note - I don't know why more people don't use this module, it's simply great!

I went ahead and did this:

    // After this, $in_there is set to TRUE if and only if
    // the article has a term IN the list of the "hot" terms
    // for which the "best comment" will be displayed  
    $in_there=FALSE;
    $yes_list=variable_get('comment_bury_promote_best_comment_vocabulary', '');
    $node_terms = taxonomy_node_get_terms($node->nid);
    foreach($node_terms as $term_value){
      if(in_array($term_value->tid,$yes_list)){
	  if($in_there){
	$in_there=TRUE;
        break;
      }
    }

It still didn't change anything on the site. The site is http://www.brewerslogo.org/spending if you would like to see for yourself.

Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it.

I realized I misread what you stated. So I tried this:

    // After this, $in_there is set to TRUE if and only if
    // the article has a term IN the list of the "hot" terms
    // for which the "best comment" will be displayed  
    $in_there=FALSE;
    $yes_list=variable_get('comment_bury_promote_best_comment_vocabulary', '');
    $node_terms = taxonomy_node_get_terms($node->nid);
    foreach($node_terms as $term_value){
      if(in_array($term_value->tid,$yes_list)){
        $in_there=TRUE;
        break;
      }
    }
	$in_there=TRUE;
    // OK, the best comment DOES need to be displayed!
    if($in_there){
      comment_bury_promote_add_best_vote($node);

However, this also did not work. After reading the comment stated above the function it made me wonder about an option listed on the config page. On the apply "best karmic vote system to" I do not have anything selected, because I do not have any categories [see attached screen shot]. I am new to Drupal and do not understand the power or relevance of categories... Perhaps this is the issue at hand? I will try to work with it to see if I can get anything to work.

Thanks for the patience...

I went ahead and put it in line 422, this also did not work. After looking at the loop and deciding I didn't really care if the loop was always true I placed the code above the loop on line 419. This seems to work! Here's the code:

  // OK, the best comment DOES need to be displayed!
  $in_there=TRUE;
  if($in_there){

    // Check if this category actually should get the best vote bit
    $comment=comment_bury_promote_best_comment_for_node($node);
    #drupal_set_message("Best comment: $comment->cid");

    // There is no "best" comment
    // 
    if($comment == NULL){
      return variable_get('comment_bury_promote_best_no_comment', '');
    }

    // There is a best comment!
    return   variable_get('comment_bury_promote_best_comment_html_b', '') . 
             theme('comment_view', $comment).
             variable_get('comment_bury_promote_best_comment_html_a', '');
  }

Thank you for working with me on this issue!

Yes, I think that would work great. Also another work around I used in order for best comments not to appear on pages or nodes that I didn't want comments on was being leaving the "No best comment" display blank!

Thanks for all the help Merc!