By kelp on

My goal is to have a sort of community blog like Digg or Slashdot where users submit news and such. I have been unable to complete this with Wordpress and Nucleus, so I thought I'd try a full-fledged CMS. Could Drupal complete a website where users can sign up and immediately post news. From there users could also rate and comment on news people have posted. Is this possible with Drupal? I'm terrible at PHP and MySQL, though. I can make some layouts with XHTML and CSS.

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thelastminute’s picture

thelastminute commented

This is all possible with drupal. It is very flexible... even for noobs like me!!

kelp’s picture

kelp commented

Would it require any plugins or could Drupal do this straight out of the box?

mork’s picture

mork commented

before it was called things like 'community bookmarking' drupal had this purpose. Almost nobody uses the moderation queue, but I've always loved it in concept.

When I first saw digg, I was like "hey, cool, moderation queue"

In fact, the ol' drop.org employed drupals moderation queue I believe.

The site kuro5hin.org used to be insanely popular (more popular than digg currently is for sure) and it was a blend of digg's community moderation and slashdot's style of articles. But even better, users wrote really good articles. The site is still somewhat active, but hasn't fully recovered from admin neglect (i.e. when users got low, the limit on votes to make front page was too high so nothing made it out of the queue for a long time).

Anyways, Drupal is the absolute best CMS to do this sort of thing as it was designed with a moderation queue in its core from the early days. The code behind kuro5hin is also open source I believe but is written in perl if memory serves correctly.

To accomplish a 'digg' type site with the regular install just allow users to submit articles. In the admin area, have articles set to go through the moderation queue. Done. (I could be wrong, it's been a while since I config'd one).

A site I did ages ago that employed this had the one buggery feature that when voted OUT of the queue, the article was deleted.. not sure if this has changed in recent version or not. It's easy enough to hack a fix to that though.

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sepeck commented

http://drupal.org/node/24686

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