Summary

Crown of royalty refers to a method developed by 37 signals for distinguishing particularly good comments on their Signal vs. Noise blog. Crown of royalty comments get a crown icon next to them and are indented to draw attention.

Mission-driven objectives

We would like to add this functionality to Streetsblog, implemented as a wordpress plugin.

Re: copyright stuff, 37 signals says: "This icon is free for anyone to use on their own blog. Spread it far and wide." So I guess we'll just use their icon unless we decide to use our own.

User stories

• Aaron, logged in as his admin user, is reading through the comments on a Streetsblog post and comes across one he wants to give the royal crown. He clicks a "crown this comment" link and the crown icon appears next to the comment. The "crown this comment link" now becomes "uncrown this comment".
• Joe Streetsblogreader is reading a Streetsblog post and notices a really long list of comments, but all he wants to read are the really good ones. Joe clicks a "view only crowned comments" link to filter out the uncrowned comments. The link then changes to "view all comments".

Technical & functional objectives

• Produce and release a WordPress plugin

Online resources / who to talk to / current features this is related to

http://codex.wordpress.org/Main_Page

How we plan to do this

We plan to write a wordpress plugin, which, when activated, would give an administrator the ability to crown a particular comment.  When a viewer is logged in, this crowning option will not be available.

Initial tasks

Comments