[Users] visibility of submitted articles

[Michele Barbera]

The following is a discussion started into the hyperjournal0.3alpha 
bugtracker. I'm moving it in here to let others see it as it is a "real 
discussion" rather than a simple bug report :-)
My reply is at the end.

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  chiara
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Would it be possible to make the submitted articles
visible for registered users?
I do not propose it, to tell the truth; I suggest it as a tentative 
debate
issue. In such a way, we could avoid spam, while getting a certain 
degree
of "transparency".

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  barbz - 03-02-05 15:00
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yes, I agree. My idea is to let the administrator choose a number of 
days
before a rejected contribution is deleted. If the choosen number is 0 
then
the contributions are never deleted. Additionally we can let admins to
decide whether to allow readers to see refused contributions or not. Let
me know what do you think.

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  chiara - 03-02-05 18:01
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It is a good idea. Will it be possible for the admin to decide whether 
*a
single* rejected contribution should be deleted of not? In such a way, 
the
admin would be able to handle "controversial" papers and true spam in a
different way. However, I suppose that in the worst case he  could 
simply
use the standard shell to do
rm singlespam_article.html.

Is it possible to implement such a feature. We'll add it in the 
forthcoming beta or stable release.
Using the shell to remove files MUST BE AVOIDED as it generates 
inconsintencies with data stored in the database.
(Hyperjournal searches the filsystem for an article that does not 
exists).
Ciao,
michele