By dankel8 on

Hi!
I believe that I am what is termed a “newbie” on the Internet, so forgive me if I use plain English. I don’t understand half of the terms used on sites like this. But I am learning.
As a response to the recent NHS scandals I have installed a Drupal site called National Health Sentinel, http://nhsentinel.org I will be inviting people with serious complaints to create a blog publicising their grievances.
I have five problems, can anyone help?
1. I do not want individuals referred to by name. Is there a module that can recognise real names and prevent their use on a Drupal blog?
2. Is it possible to automatically include a disclaimer in the header of each blog without having to edit each one individually?
3. Is it possible to create a link from each blog to a forum section where people can comment on that particular issue?
4. I would like authenticated users to be able to register their dissatisfaction with the substance of any blog or forum comment. What I have in mind is something like a check box that could be ticked by dissatisfied users and when the total of dissatisfied users reaches a set number, the administrator is alerted to the fact. Is there such a module?
5. Are there any publications the equivalent to “Drupal for idiots”, or a list of Drupal terms explained in plain English?

Thank you for taking the time to read this post.
Regards
Dankel8

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Comments

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yelvington commented

1. No. It's theoretically possible, using the Calais web service, to detect "person" entities and unpublish the item automatically, but you would need a new module created to do that, and it would not be cheap.

2. Yes, that could be done easily in templates, or you could create a custom block that is added to the "content" region (or any other convenient place) for specific paths. (Pathauto will help with this, and is highly recommended).

3. You could, but blogs can also have comments, which is much more straightforward.

4. There are several alternatives, including Flag Abuse module and the Abuse module. The latter has more features but is broken for nodes because it improperly sets removed items to "-1" status, which Views considers published. There is a bug reported but the maintainer won't fix it. If you want blog posts as well as comments to be flagged, I'd recommend Flag Abuse.

5. Drupal glossary: http://drupal.org/node/937

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dankel8 commented

Dear yelvington,

Thank you for your response. You have been extremely helpful.
I did realize that there was comments facility for each blog but my problem is, the blogs I envisage being included on my web site, will concern issues of sickness and death as a result of perceived negligence on someone’s part. The last thing such people need is some moron posting a frivolous or malicious comment in such a place where it would be hard for them to ignore. I am aware that such comments will still exist, but the fact that they are not directly attached to the blog, just seams a little less brutal.

I am very grateful for the time and effort you took to help me out.
Regards
Dankel8

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nevets commented

Regard 1, actually its easy since people pick their own user name and that is what shows on the blog.

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dankel8 commented

Dear nevets,

I am very grateful for the time and effort you took to help me out.
Regards
Dankel8