Hi,

If a scoop was posted 6 months ago, and 6 months later it manages to gather enough points to be promoted, then it's no longer news. And it looks pretty discrediting when a site has a 6-months old news item on its front-page.

I remember there used to be a feature (or I could be wrong), whereby admins can specify a specific number of days (or hours) after which the scoop will not be promoted to the front page even if it gathers enough votes pass the threshold. But I can't find where it is located in 5x or in 6x. A little pointer would be much appreciated.

Thanks.

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mercmobily’s picture

mercmobily commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Hi,

Scoops in the "Archived" section are no longer eligible for promotion. As simple as that.

Merc.

drupalina’s picture

drupalina commented

yeah, I though so too... but recently some of the very old scoops did get through to the front page, and I could think of no reason why that happened.

jr50’s picture

jr50 commented

same here , archived scoops do get promoted...

drupalina’s picture

drupalina commented
Category: support » bug
Status: Fixed » Active

since someone else is having this issue , I'm changing this to a bug
(but mind you, my live site site where this is happening is a 5x-36 , not a 6x-dev)

@jr50 - is your site on drigg 6x-dev ?

jr50’s picture

jr50 commented

yes 6.x

drupalina’s picture

drupalina commented

After 1 year of low activity, I'm now upgrading my site to 6.x . Strangely enough, on my 5x site archived scoops do not get promoted. But on my 6.x site they do.

jr50, were you able to resolve this issue in 6x?

Anyone?

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drupalina commented
Title: Do not promote scoop after X number of hours » Drigg promotes archived scoops without any check whether it's archived or not
Priority: Normal » Critical

I suspect that the problem could be in the line 139

      if ($o->promote == 0 && $o->killed == 0) {

but apart from checking whether the scoop is un-promoted and not killed, it should also check that the scoop is not archived.

Does anyone know what needs to be added to that line to make it work?