Over the weekend I released the plugin that I intend to enter into the Weblog Tools Collection Competition: Fun with In-Context Comments.
Fun with In-Context Comments allows you to add questions to your posts so that commenters can provide additional information to put their comment into context. For example, my plugin pages now ask for details about the version of WordPress and the version of the plugin the commenter is using.
The information the commenter enters is displayed on their comment so that other users can decide whether a comment is relevent to them or not.
I have been using the plugin fairly successfully on this site for about a week now.
There are two more key features that I intend to add before it gets to version 1. The first is that I will allow users to filter the comments according to these answers, so they can see comments that are only relevent to the versions they are using. And the second feature will compiles stats on the answers given, both per-post, and globally, within an optional period of time.
I think this is a pretty simple, but very effective idea, and I hope y’all like it.