Comment: allow comments on content

The comment module provides for discussion of posts. Users can post comments to discuss a forum topic, blog post, story, collaborative book page, etc. The ability to comment is an important part of involving members in a community dialogue.

An administrator can give comment permissions to user groups, and users can (optionally) edit their last comment, assuming no others have been posted since.

Attached to each comment board is a control panel for customizing the way that comments are displayed. Users can control the chronological ordering of posts (newest or oldest first) and the number of posts to display on each page.

Comments behave like other user submissions. Filters, smileys and HTML that work in nodes will also work with comments. The comment module provides specific features to inform site members when new comments have been posted. On sites with active commenting from users, the administrator can turn over comment moderation to the community.

The locations of settings for administration of comments in Drupal 5 are as follows:

• control access for various comment module functions through access permissions administer >> user management >>access control.
• administer comments administer >> content >> comments.
• administer comment settings administer >> content >> comments >> settings.
• enable the recent or new comments blocks: administer >> site building >> blocks

The locations of settings for administration of comments in Drupal 6 are as follows:

• control access for various comment module functions through access permissions administer >> user management >>permissions.
• administer comments administer >> content >> comments.
• administer comment settings administer >> content >> content types and then choose the content type for specific content settings.
• enable the recent or news comments block: administer >> site building >> blocks