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RE: Finally Comments - Guest Posting & improvements
I somehow like the idea of @finallycomments-guest commenting on behalf of the guest author by mentioning their name.
This may save you a few lines of code, some database space, and reduce latency of calling 2 data points, also can earn you some SBD and SP if anyone votes on those comments.
Yeah I thought about that Idea a bunch. My main reservations are
A) Once posted to the blockchain it can't be removed, I'd be anxious a user might post nefarious content and it would be immutably linked to a handle/user I own.
B) You can only post every 20 seconds if Finally needs to scale it could be an issue with multiple people trying to post. Not an issue now but probably could be easily.
You're right though it saves a bunch of code and extra complexity. Still might switch to that in future, maybe there are other options i've not thought of yet too.
Yes, you are absolutely right. B can be bypassed using 4-5 accounts but A could be a real issue.
Another hack can be a placeholder comment by your handle(s) and adding
json_metadatato that comment. This way original guest comment won't show on condensers but you can parse and show them on author's website.This ^ and maybe let the owner of the blog auto-hide new comments to review them.
Also, the next fork is supposed to allow indefinite editing, so that could maybe help this sorta problem in the future :/
Yes agree, I realised that after working on this that flagging/hiding is even more important now. Perhaps even the ability to disable guest comments.
Had no heard about indefinite editing, that's kind of controversial.
Here's a link to one of the several issues on GitHub about it: https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/1714
That's an interesting idea to use the metadata instead of the body 👊