Only gods may modify superdocs (usually by applying patches) and that is because a superdoc can run arbitrary Perl code. Whoever "owns" the superdoc determines who can view it (and thus cause the page to be rendered, running any Perl code embedded in it).

A note is a generic "reply" node. It is mostly a document plus a pointer to the node that it is in reply to and a pointer to the root node of its thread. How a note is displayed incorporates that extra information in the heading (plus you can vote a note up/down).

A scratchpad is two chnks of text (public and private) with some special association with the owner. Converting last hour of cb to a scratchpad would require SQL work and might produce interesting results for things like [pad://janitors] (or whoever was declared the owner), neither of which seems like a show-stopper.

Perhaps last hour of cb should just become a document (a basic node type that we have not recently created examples of but that many other node types are based off of). Note that a document would not be found by super search (at this time), which is probably a big draw-back to that otherwise simple proposal.

So, of those, scratchpad seems the least problematic (other than the initial conversion work -- but it may be that the public part of a scratchpad is actually housed in the document table and so conversion isn't even a problem).

(stream of consciousness)++; minor parts left as exercises for pmdevils intentionally

- tye        

In reply to Re^2: A non-voteable, user-updateable node? (nodetypes) by tye
in thread A non-voteable, user-updateable node? by jdporter

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