TOPIC: Limit Compojopom Commets with Contact List?

The website I am building will be for a volunteer group in a small community. The total populations is just 8,000+- people. To cut down spam and limit comments to only those with a direct stake in the issues being discussed, I would like to allow anyone to register and read whatever they want.

Then, I would like to restrict writing comments to actual residents of this community.

Did I miss something that would work in the configuration and setup?

What do you advise?

Cordially,
TwoHoot

Hey John,
You didn't miss anything.

You currently restrict the comments to just registered/unregistered - which means - all users can read the comments, but only registered users will be able to comment.

You could do a small trick, but I think that it is not what you exactly want.

If you are building the website with joomla 1.7 you could create a new access level - "members of the community" and put the users that are allowed to register in it.

Then you can go to plugins - find the compojoomcomment content plugin and enable it only for "members of the community".

The downside to this approach is that - only "members of the community" will see the comments and will be able to comment on them.

Every other user will not know that comments exist at all!

Kind regards,
Daniel

That sounds like a good solution. I will probably need some advice when I begin to implement it.

Right now I need to get the basic framework public. Temporarily, I think I will just allow comments in the private Workshop (Special Access). That way, we can use Comments as a collaboration tool to get things organized.

Volunteers cannot attend endless meetings, keep up with email chains, private conversations and lengthy local phone calls. The time requirements are just too great for volunteers to stay involved. Comments should streamline the information flow as a sort of continuous, at-your-convenience meeting in the Workshop.

Most websites want to attract viewers. This one seeks to limit them to the 8,000 or so residents of this small county.

Thank you for the idea. I will get back to it after the site is public.

Cordially,
TwoHoot