Guidelines on comment submission - like for node submission

Interesting feature. Personally, I don't think it's needed, though.

Moving to 6.x-dev queue.

I disagree that this isn't needed. Countless weblogs and web columns today have posting guidelines and I've always been surprised that Drupal doesn't have built-in support for it.

I agree with christefano. This is a very vital feature.

It's incredible how long it takes to incorporate such a simple and useful feature.

Some changes and update to Drupal HEAD from 2007/06/19.

Please devote your time to review and add this to Drupal core. Thank you.

Cvbge don't work on it, so I changed assigned person to nobody.

In node module we have submission guidelines ($type->help variable) in help system:

<?php
function node_help($section) {
...
  if (arg(0) == 'node' && arg(1) == 'add' && $type = arg(2)) {
    $type = node_get_types('type', str_replace('-', '_', arg(2)));
    return '<p>'. (isset($type->help) ? filter_xss_admin($type->help) : '') .'</p>';
  }
}
?>

But help is at the top of page. On reply submission we will have on page:
(1) help = commend submission guidelines,
(2) node (+comments) / comment
(3) comment form.
Any ideas?

What I ended up doing is add something like this to template.php:

/**
 * Display posting guidelines at the top of comment submission forms.
 * It is useful for helping or instructing your users.
 */
function phptemplate_comment_form($form) {
  $output .= '<div>';
  $output .= '<div class="comment_help">Comment guidelines go here.</div>';
  $output .=  drupal_render($form);
  $output .= '</div>';
  return $output;
} 

I've written up a more elaborate tutorial that allows editing of the comment guidelines from within Drupal (instead of editing template.php).
Check my drupal.org profile for a link to my Drupal development column.

This is crossposted at http://drupal.org/node/15248 (#comment-242999).

This will be a nice feature for 7.x (since 6.x is both string- and feature-frozen).

Just want to voice my support for this. I was looking for something like this. This is partly a usability issue to me.

Maybe it's a vital, but i used it. Thanks.

I agree absolutely essential for any CMS, especially one which has blogging capability.

You can create a block under content area to show up, but only if your comment reply is set up to open on a different page.

This module : http://drupal.org/project/warning

Takes care of the issue and allows the admin to place warning messages in other submission forms as well. I think this is the ideal way to go.

Earnie,

There are a ton of other modules that are really beneficial to any drupal site, again posted in the wrong section, bad titles, vague descriptions. Just criminal..

Drupal should have staff or mods who can dig through this stuff and bring them all out.

After the recent changes to drupal.org its harder to find these modules.

I've re-worked this patch for D7 allowing for the submission guidelines to be added on a per-content type basis.

Nice patch. Simple and effective, and nice that it's on a per-content-type basis. The only thing I might do is attach a class to the <p> tag, so themers can style it.

Drupal 7 is long feature frozen now. Bumping to Drupal 8.

Re-rolled for D8, with sdsheridan's suggestion to add a class to the

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needs screenshot

Sure, as requested. I've also added an updated copy of the patch.

I think this is a sensible thing to have. Placement and/or interaction might need some iterations though.

Another thing we also need is tests for this.

I was tempted to mark this won't fix, but since dixon_ found it sensible I would love to know what the thoughts are? Why is this necessary for core? I am not sure this is a widely requested feature.

Actually, Bojhan is right. This is an easy thing to fix in contrib and not very widely requested. Having submission guidelines for nodes makes much more sense, since nodes are mostly used very differently. Comments are mostly just comments.