more options for non-diaspora users to interact with diaspora
thomas
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at the moment i assume for most people active on diaspora, most of their friends or acquaintances are not on diaspora. most of them are unlikely to join in the near future. and there are not really any ways for non-diaspora users to interact with diaspora.
if comments (to begin with) were allowed from other social networks, or anonymously/ with captcha, then users could use diaspora a bit like a blog, where anyone could join the discussion regardless of preferred social network. so generally speaking, my suggestion is to add options for non-diaspora users to interact with content on diaspora. and more specifically, this could be done by implementing some kind of anonymous commenting function where the user is able to approve/disapprove of comments to his/her post?
Michael Dagn Thu 24 Oct 2013 3:39PM
yes I think for fully public posts making them easier for people to find or reshare is a good thing.
regarding comments (from non-diaspora people) , I think letting anyone comment on public posts is also nice, but care must also be taken to keep spambots out - letting people post by using their account on another network would be preferable where possible, but for anyone not able to authenticate at all it would probably need to resort to doing stuff like displaying a different and sneaky version of the form designed to make it harder for spambots to do any automated posting.
StarBlessed Sat 2 Nov 2013 12:06PM
I came across a Drupal module that cut my spam by almost 99% in the last 3 months. Its called Spamicide : https://drupal.org/project/spamicide
For those who are familiar, you will understand how it works, for those who don't, Ill give you quick run down.
It adds an extra field to a form that is hidden in CSS. The user cannot see this field, and therefore does not put anything into it.
A Spam Bot will look into the code and see ALL of the fields. It will then proceed to fill them all with garbage.
Should the hidden field contain any data when posted, it is automatically rejected as spam. If the field is empty when submitted, it is accepted.
If this is combined with say a GD library style capcha, I think this would fill the needs of avoiding spam/spam bots.
Christos Koulaxizis Sun 3 Nov 2013 7:14AM
That's a great idea!! It will help "bloggers" to interact better with their audience, plus Diaspora will become more known to other people! :)
Pirate Praveen Mon 4 Nov 2013 4:48PM
At the moment commenting with another pod even don't work if you get the post url from a different pod.
For example if I share link to a post using poddery.com link, users from other pods can't comment there.
If you are not logged in, comment button should still be there. And login form should have a link - 'Sign in with another pod'.
Every post has a unique id across pods and the comment form should appear on commenting users pod using the unique post id.
This would be a very good start.
Alexander Uvizhev Mon 31 Mar 2014 6:31PM
Good point to start here is to look at how LiveJournal.com implemented this feature. Anyone can come and comment if it's allowed. I attached two pics to show this.
In general this is a bright idea because it will help to bring new users to D*. That's because D* users will get a chance to post a content ready for feedback (everyone is eager to receive more comments). And then it gives more content => more visitors from other social networks => D* becomes more familiar to those strangers and finally more attractive.
mathis · Sat 17 Aug 2013 3:27PM
i agree, non -diaspora user should comment on public posts