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What is Scoop
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Scoop is a "collaborative media application". It falls somewhere between a
content management system, a web bulletin board system, and a weblog.
Scoop is designed to enable your website to become a community. It empowers
your visitors to be the producers of the site, contributing news and discussion,
and making sure that the signal remains high.
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Check out what other people have done with Scoop.
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New Scoop Sites
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rudepeople.com in need of a makeover
950 comments, 0 new
by rudedude, Announcements
New Music Site ... in Scoop
991 comments, 0 new
by MightyD, Announcements
Trees and Things is Coming Out
743 comments, 0 new
by 3fingerspointback, Announcements
TalkLeft Moves to Scoop
636 comments, 0 new
by TalkLeft, Announcements
SciScoop Science Forum
518 comments, 0 new
by sciencebase, Announcements
New Site: "Field Gulls" Unofficial Seattle Seahawks Blog
514 comments, 0 new
by Paul Shrug, Announcements
More New Scoop Sites...
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Where can I get Scoop
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You can download the latest release tarball: scoop_1.1.8.tar.gz
You can grab the nightly build. Note: This is generated automatically from the current CVS, and may not be reliable! Get that here: scoop-1.1-nightly.tar.gz
The developers strongly recommend CVS as the primary way to obtain Scoop, since releases tend to have pretty long delays between them. If you have CVS installed, do the following:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@ scoop.versionhost.com:/cvs/scoop login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ scoop.versionhost.com:/cvs/scoop co scoop
The above is two commands; each one must be on a single line. When prompted for a password for anonymous, enter 'anonymous' (without the quotes). For more CVS info, "Open Source Development with CVS" is an excellent online reference.
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Where can I get help
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There are several sources of information and support for Scoop. The first place to look is the scoop-help mailing list. You can browse the archives, or join the list. If you want to post a question, joining the list is strongly recommended. You can also join the #scoop IRC channel on SlashNET.
For documentation, there is the (largely complete) Scoop administrator's guide. You can also read the current
README and
INSTALL files, from Scoop WebCVS (username and password are both "anonymous"). The admin guide is also included with Scoop, in the doc/ directory.
If you have new feature ideas or requests, or descriptions of something you're working on for Scoop, this site is the place to submit them. You can also search this site for information. If you want to get your hands dirty, or have any questions about developing for Scoop, there is also the Scoop-dev list. You can browse the archives, or join the list.
Bug reports and patches should be filed on the Scoop Bug Muncher.
If you have any problems with this site or your user account, e-mail the Admin
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Minimized Vote Tally
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By Remy , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Thu Dec 14, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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Due to some browsers choking on incredibly long SELECT form tags, I'd really like to see some way to either reduce or hide the long "Voted For/Voted Against/Don't Care" lists that appear after voting for a story.
(3 comments, 206 words in story) Full Story >>
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Remove comment moderation from diaries.
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By enterfornone , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Thu Dec 14, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I noticed someone mod a comment in my diary down to 0. Quite unfairly since the post was obviously on topic, but that's not the point. The point is others have the power to decide what I get to see in my diary while as an untrusted user I do not.
I think moderation should be removed from the diaries and perhaps diary owners should have the power to kill trolls in their diary.
(3 comments, 97 words in story) Full Story >>
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User details link in story/diary heading.
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By enterfornone , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Wed Dec 13, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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There's a link in the heading of comments call user details. I use it quite a bit. Clicking on it gives you information on the user as well as links to their previous comments, stories and diary.
In story and diary heading on the other hand the users name is a link which goes to a list of previous stories (whether you click it in stories or diary it still just shows stories).
It would be a lot more useful if this was replaced with a link to user details.
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Newer comments and mojo calculation
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By loner , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Mon Dec 11, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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A couple of times in K5 I've noticed that after posting a controversial comment, my trusted user status is repeatedly removed then restored within short periods of time, as the comment's rating yo-yos between 1 and 5. Possible fix: don't count the ratings for the current day's comment when calculating the mojo. Only count comments that are at least one day old, giving the scores time to settle a bit before they can affect one's trusted status.
(6 comments, 257 words in story) Full Story >>
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Automatic time zone pref changes
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By sharding , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Mon Dec 11, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I just noticed on K5 that my display preference for time zone was still set to PDT, making everything appear to be an hour off. It seems that Scoop should be able to change between standard and daylight saving time automatically for the user.
(5 comments, 108 words in story) Full Story >>
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Show number of votes on a comment
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By Eloquence , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Fri Dec 08, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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I already submitted this on the old site, but it was shortly before the hiatus and it probably got lost. I think it would be very helpful to see the number of votes on a comment next to the average rating, as this would give much more meaning to the comment ratings (a 4.50 with 10 votes is much better than a 5.00 with 1 vote). This doesn't need to have any further practical implications WRT mojo and such, it would just enhance the quality of ratings.
(3 comments, 109 words in story) Full Story >>
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Limiting text in Intro Copy
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By enterfornone , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Fri Dec 08, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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This is probably a bit K5 specific, but I thought I'd post it here rather post yet another trivial meta.
Since the introduction of diaries there have been a lot of people using the Intro Copy box to post their entire story. Sure, it's only affecting diaries, but it's still annoying.
(7 comments, 229 words in story) Full Story >>
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Editing stories in queue
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By enterfornone , Section Wishlist []
Posted on Thu Dec 07, 2000 at 12:00:00 PM PST
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As much as you can check and double check, often you will make a typo or another mistake and not see if until it is pointed out in an editorial comment. It would be nice to be able to go back and make changes once a story has been submitted.
(9 comments, 187 words in story) Full Story >>
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