New checkbox plug-ins.

Posted on March 21, 2007 by Ampersand

I’ve added two new checkbox plug-ins. ((I’ve also added a third plugin, which will mean more pingbacks will be registered, but it means I have to register “Alas” with Technorati. In order to do that, I need to put this link in a post temporarily: Technorati Profile. Just ignore that link, please.))

The first is a “subscribe to comments” plug-in (I’ve had this one before, but it got dropped at some point and was never restored). This is one I’ve found useful when I’ve left comments on a blog that I don’t visit often.

The second is the Comment Rules WordPress Plugin, which Daran of “Feminist Critics” created by modifying an already-existing plugin. ((The already-existing plugin Daran modified was Comment Policy WordPress Plugin, by George Notaras.)) Here’s a picture of the new plugin at work:

Screenshot of comment rules plugin

Because this notice appears right by the comments box – rather than dozens of screenfuls of comments away, which is where the old notice appeared — I think this should limit or eliminate the problem of non-feminists forgetting about the rule in the longer threads. It’ll also take some burden off of the moderators to enforce the rule, since I think the checkbox requirement will make it more self-enforcing.

Many thanks to Daran; especially considering his idealogical aversion (to put it mildly) to feminism, it was extremely generous of him to make this plugin at my request.

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  3. ballgame says:
    March 21, 2007 at 8:35 pm

    Amp, I think the mechanism is great, but I have to say I find the check box paragraph extremely problematical. How is a commenter (especially a new one) supposed to determine what the poster does and doesn’t think of the commenter’s views (short of reading minds)? Wouldn’t a simple checklist be more straightforward (i.e. “you’re considered a feminist here and welcome to comment if you agree with all of the following…”)?

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  5. Daran says:
    March 21, 2007 at 10:53 pm

    Many thanks to Daran; especially considering his idealogical aversion (to put it mildly) to feminism, it was extremely generous of him to make this plugin at my request.

    So now my own plugin is being used to bar me from commenting on Alas.

    I am complicit in my own oppression. ;-)

  6. Robert says:
    March 21, 2007 at 11:41 pm

    And further, you apparently were an active agent in that oppression.

    It’s almost as if the theory-of-oppression has some holes in it… ;)

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