it would be great to have some additional fields and the site owner can decide how to use them. i could imagine using them as category or as url or as abstract (teaser). for example, dsr currently has 3 fields - search phrase, url, comment. i wish i had another field for the url of the found page.

Possibly the case for internal XML encoding of the body text with separate editors for different XML elements... (sort of like we do it on helma.org, but with separate textareas for separate XML elements).

Just thinking out loud.

i thought about misusing the comment title as voting intrument ("rocks" or "sucks"), i.e. it will not be the title field but some radio buttons in the form and icons or texts in the main view. if i had additional fields i wouldn't ditch the title.

(but then it would be great if there was a smart way or a language to define rules like "each person can only vote once" or "count all votes of the comments associated with a story".)

is most probably a different story (i.e. technically separated). It's definitely an essential groupware feature.

i'm definetly against any technical "production" of teasers (the first few words of a story are not a teaser nor a lead), but i'm sure antville should offer a teaser/lead-textarea (as hns described).

a preference to switch teasers on/off is not really useful imho, because it's the author who should decide whether to write a teaser or not (and if one really needs no teasers and is annoyed by the additional text-area, it's easy to remove the textarea from the edit-skin).

and voting really is a completely different thing, but very nice to have ...

i just wanted to say that the current two fields could be used for anything, not only title and messagebody. having more fields available leads to new possibilities for expert users. it would be great to have clone-able themes to pass these features to the average user.