By daBrado on

Hi,

I am new to Drupal, and it looks really interesting, so here is a practice question to try and get myself in the flow of the Drupal community:

I see the comment.module wants to require a subject, so that if the given subject is blank, it will extract one from the body. Why is this? Would there be objection to allowing a blank subject? To me, especially for comments in forums, it is nice to not need a subject, and so allow a theme to respond by not even showing a subject line and making the body more immediately visible, which is nice for short comments, I think.

Any thoughts?

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ax’s picture

ax commented

on what would you click in the tracker?

daBrado’s picture

daBrado commented

Borrowing from mackking's comment, the tracker could show "Re: previous subject". Or it could just show "no subject".

I guess the more general point is, the decision of what to do with a no-subject comment could be up to the displayer code, as opposed to the comment-making code enforcing a certain subject.

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mackking commented

rather then forcing the poster to come up with a subject, defaulting the subject of a reply to be "re: previous subject"? If the author realy wants to put something different in the subject then can.