[Radiant] Page Parts as Attachments, Tags, Images, Events, etc.

[Josh Ferguson]

Comments should be separate as John says. It's a little too abstract to 
start calling everything a page part. Just call it a comment and give it 
a table and the problem is solved. It's simple to do and it's pragmatic 
to boot.

Just my two cents.

Josh Ferguson

John W. Long wrote:
> David Richardson wrote:
>   
>> Are 'comments' not best treated as page parts too? Conceptually this
>> seems to work for posted comments in a weblog, as well as reviewer
>> annotations in a document repository.
>>     
>
> One of the things I've striven to do in Radiant is to come up with 
> generic solutions to common problems--to find the building blocks that 
> make it easy to build buildings.  But generic solutions can be 
> dangerous. If you make something too generic it can end up being complex 
> and hard to configure. In the end, instead of making it easier for the 
> end user, you've made it more difficult.
>
> Blurring the line between page parts and comments might make it easier 
> for developers to create solutions to other problems, but I fear that it 
> would make it more difficult for the average user who just wants to add 
> comments to their blog.
>
> Comments will need some sort of moderation system for spam and other 
> problems. Why would you implement a system for moderating page parts? 
> No, as Scott said, the origin of the content (content producer vs. site 
> visitor) is enough to make this a separate object.
>
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