Eckankar: It's faster to "cache" the data in the script itself, and besides I don't want to host a server that gets hit *every time* someone loads page on which this userscript is active.
Also, it looks like @resource only retrieves the data during the first install.
Since comments are editable, it's not hard for people to use trial-and-error and get it right. I'd only go with bbCode if commenting is a one-shot deal.
Here's an alternative: Provide a "paste some code!" button that gives the user a textarea in which to... paste some code. When they hit "paste", it escapes the HTML, wraps it in <pre> or <code>, and pastes it into the comment area.
This sounds like it would be much more efficient than flagging individual spam content. It would also take away the need to put "flag as spam" links on every type of user-submitted content. For example, instead of putting flag links on blog comments, such as this one:
Eckankar: It's faster to "cache" the data in the script itself, and besides I don't want to host a server that gets hit *every time* someone loads page on which this userscript is active.
Also, it looks like @resource only retrieves the data during the first install.
0 Allow bots to update scripts using an API - 4 months ago
Perhaps full versioning would be called for, much as Wikipedia provides.
0 Diff last update modifications - 4 months ago
I have successfully written some PHP that updates the userscripts.org listing, so I'm removing my vote for this. :-P
But if other authors have the same need, perhaps the idea should be reopened.
0 Allow bots to update scripts using an API - 4 months ago
Please don't use bbCode. This website is aimed at more tech-savvy users in general, so using bbCode would be a bit... insulting.
Perhaps a better option would be a live preview + WYSIWYG buttons. (Bold button to insert bold tags, etc.)
0 add BBCode support - 4 months ago
Clearly, this calls for a userscript. ;-)
0 Add orange to the footer - 4 months ago
We should totally have a t-shirt design contest in the forums.
0 share revenue from adsense ads with script authors - 4 months ago
Since comments are editable, it's not hard for people to use trial-and-error and get it right. I'd only go with bbCode if commenting is a one-shot deal.
Here's an alternative: Provide a "paste some code!" button that gives the user a textarea in which to... paste some code. When they hit "paste", it escapes the HTML, wraps it in <pre> or <code>, and pastes it into the comment area.
0 make code comments work - 4 months ago
This is *not* a feature for userscripts.org to implement! The feature would need to go into greasemonkey itself.
0 auto update scripts - 4 months ago
This sounds like it would be much more efficient than flagging individual spam content. It would also take away the need to put "flag as spam" links on every type of user-submitted content. For example, instead of putting flag links on blog comments, such as this one:
http://userscripts.org/articles/9-hotlinking-of-unlisted-scripts-disabled#comment-42642
...I could just flag the user.
1 allow users to be flagged as spammers - 4 months ago
I've never worked with OpenAuth, so I'm not sure whether I like the idea or not. :-)
What I'm envisioning is an automatically-generated per-script passphrase that a bot could use to authorize a single post-based update.
0 Allow bots to update scripts using an API - 4 months ago