Complaints on email and twitter have reached a critical mass, so: Something Must Be Done about the board (artist's impression @ right).

You may have noticed that the points system broke during the Great Malware Disaster and I haven't fixed it. There are multiple reasons for this: the code that did that was in a custom module I had made up and the only place it existed was on the test server. Due to some bad archiving strategies it is no longer extant. Before I set to replacing that I wanted to see if moving to the new version of Drupal was feasible, something that required checking each of the dozens of modules installed on the site to see if it had a viable Drupal 7 version.

I've been waiting for a bit and now I'm pretty sure I'm not going to make the move to 7 until next summer, so it makes sense to implement something now. However, the board has gotten very large and a number of stupid people have infested it and it's clear we've again outgrown our system.

Thus I have…

A Job

I'm looking for a developer familiar with Drupal who will work with me to produce a commenting system in the vein of Reddit or Slashdot that automatically filters poor quality comments and draws attention to high quality ones. This can be an assemblage of existing modules—though I've looked and that is not in the cards, I don't think—but will most likely be a module of its own, one that ideally will be submitted and maintained in the community at large. We'll work together to establish requirements and then establish a price for the whole thing.

I imagine this is going to take a while as we hash out what's possible and what isn't; getting it right and getting it into a maintainable state is more important than speed. My previous experience with freelancing leads me to believe a lot of low quality code gets pushed out the door very quickly. I'm looking for this to be more of a long-term relationship where person X is brought on as part-time Drupal guy, completing projects at a fairly leisurely rate as time and funding allows.

If you're interested, email me with who you are and your ideas for the project. If you do not have a track record I might be impressed enough by someone who can already show me a prototype—who's started something already—to overlook that.

In the meantime I will reach in and restore the dirty hack I dirtily hacked the first time around. Give me some time, a week or so.