function comment_help

Implementation of hook_help().

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modules/comment.module, line 15

Enables users to comment on published content.

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function comment_help($section = "admin/help#comment") {
  switch ($section) {
    case 'admin/help#comment':
      return t("\n      <p>When enabled, the Drupal comment module creates a discussion board for each Drupal node. Users can post comments to discuss a forum topic, weblog post, story, collaborative book page, etc. An administrator can give comment permissions to user groups, and users can (optionally) edit their last comment, assuming no others have been posted since.</p>\n\n      <h3>User control of comment display</h3>\n      <p>Attached to each comment board is a control panel for customizing the way that comments are displayed. Users can control the chronological ordering of posts (newest or oldest first) and the number of posts to display on each page. Additional settings include:</p>\n      <ul><li><strong>Threaded</strong> &mdash; Displays the posts grouped according to conversations and subconversations.</li>\n      <li><strong>Flat</strong> &mdash;  Displays the posts in chronological order, with no threading whatsoever.</li>\n      <li><strong>Expanded</strong> &mdash; Displays the title and text for each post.</li>\n      <li><strong>Collapsed</strong> &mdash; Displays only the title for each post.</li></ul>\n      <p>When a user chooses <em>save settings</em>, the comments are then redisplayed using the user's new choices. Administrators can set the default settings for the comment control panel, along with other comment defaults, in <a href=\"%comment-config\">administer &raquo; comments &raquo; configure</a>. NOTE: When comment moderation is enabled, users will have another control panel option to control thresholds (see below).</p>\n\n      <h3>Additional comment configurations</h3>\n      <p>Comments behave like other user submissions in Drupal. Filters, smileys and HTML that work in nodes will also work with comments. Administrators can control access to various comment module functions through <a href=\"%permissions\">administer &raquo; access control &raquo; permissions</a>. Know that in a new Drupal installation, all comment permissions are disabled by default. The choice of which permissions to grant to which roles (groups of users) is left up to the site administrator. The following permissions:</p>\n      <ul><li><strong>Access comments</strong> &mdash; Allows users to view comments.</li>\n      <li><strong>Administrate comments</strong> &mdash; Allows users complete control over configuring, editing and deleting all comments.</li>\n      <li><strong>Moderate comments</strong> &mdash; Allows users to rate comment postings (see more on moderation below).</li>\n      <li><strong>Post comments</strong> &mdash; Allows users to post comments into an administrator moderation queue.</li>\n      <li><strong>Post comments without approval</strong> &mdash; Allows users to directly post comments, bypassing the moderation queue.</li></ul>\n\n      <h3>Notification of new comments</h3>\n      <p>Drupal provides specific features to inform site members when new comments have been posted.</p>\n      <p>Drupal displays the total number of comments attached to each node, and tracks comments read by individual site members. Members which have logged in will see a notice accompanying nodes which contain comments they have not read. Some administrators may want to <a href=\"%download-notify\">download, install and configure the notify module</a>. Users can then request that Drupal send them an e-mail when new comments are posted (the notify module requires that cron.php be configured properly).</p>\n      <p>The <em>tracker</em> module, disabled by default, displays all the site's recent posts.  There is a link to the <a href=\"%tracker\">recent posts</a> page in the navigation block.  This page is a useful way to browse new or updated nodes and comments. Content which the user has not yet read is tagged with a red star (this graphic depends on the current theme). Visit the comment board for any node, and Drupal will display a red <em>\"new\"</em> label beside the text of unread comments.</p>\n\n      <h3>Comment moderation</h3>\n      <p>On sites with active commenting from users, the administrator can turn over comment moderation to the community. </p>\n      <p>With comment moderation, each comment is automatically assigned an initial rating. As users read comments, they can apply a vote which affects the comment rating. At the same time, users have an additional option in the control panel which allows them to set a threshold for the comments they wish to view. Those comments with ratings lower than the set threshold will not be shown. To enable moderation, the administrator must grant <a href=\"%permissions\">moderate comments</a> permissions. Then, a number of options in <a href=\"%comment-config\">administer &raquo; comments &raquo; configure</a> must be configured.</p>\n\n      <h4>Moderation votes</h4>\n      <p>The first step is to create moderation labels which allow users to rate a comment.  Go to <a href=\"%comment-votes\">administer &raquo; comments &raquo; configure &raquo; moderation votes</a>. In the <em>vote</em> field, enter the textual labels which users will see when casting their votes. Some examples are</p>\n      <ul><li>Excellent +3</li><li>Insightful +2</li><li>Useful +1</li><li>Redundant -1</li><li>Flame -3</li></ul>\n      <p>So that users know how their votes affect the comment, these examples include the vote value as part of the label, although that is optional. Using the weight option, you can control the order in which the votes appear to users. Setting the weight heavier (positive numbers) will make the vote label appear at the bottom of the list. Lighter (a negative number) will push it to the top. To encourage positive voting, a useful order might be higher values, positive votes, at the top, with negative votes at the bottom.</p>\n\n      <h4>Moderator vote/values matrix</h4>\n      <p>Next go to <a href=\"%comment-matrix\">administer &raquo; comments &raquo; configure &raquo; moderation matrix</a>. Enter the values for the vote labels for each permission role in the vote matrix. The values entered here will be used to create the rating for each comment. NOTE: Comment ratings are calculated by averaging user votes with the initial rating.</p>\n\n      <h4>Creating comment thresholds</h4>\n      <p>In <a href=\"%comment-thresholds\">administer &raquo; comments &raquo; configure &raquo; moderation thresholds</a>, you'll have to create some comment thresholds to make the comment rating system useful. When comment moderation is enabled and the thresholds are created, users will find another comment control panel option for selecting their thresholds. They'll use the thresholds you enter here to filter out comments with low ratings. Consequently, you'll probably want to create more than one threshold to give users some flexibility in filtering comments.</p>\n      <p>When creating the thresholds, note that the <em>Minimum score</em> is asking you for the lowest rating that a comment can have in order to be displayed. To see a common example of how thresholds work, you might visit <a href=\"%slashdot\">Slashdot</a> and view one of their comment boards associated with a story. You can reset the thresholds in their comment control panel.</p>\n\n      <h4>Initial comment scores</h4>\n      <p>Finally, you may want to enter some <em>initial comment scores</em>. In <a href=\"%comment-initial\">administer &raquo; comments &raquo; configure &raquo; moderation roles</a> you can assign a beginning rating for all comments posted by a particular permission role. If you do not assign any initial scores, Drupal will assign a rating of <strong>0</strong> as the default.</p>", array(
        '%comment-config' => url('admin/comment/configure'),
        '%permissions' => url('admin/access/permissions'),
        '%tracker' => url('tracker'),
        '%download-notify' => 'http://drupal.org/project/releases',
        '%comment-votes' => url('admin/comment/configure/votes'),
        '%comment-matrix' => url('admin/comment/configure/matrix'),
        '%comment-thresholds' => url('admin/comment/configure/thresholds'),
        '%slashdot' => ' http://slashdot.org',
        '%comment-initial' => url('admin/comment/configure/roles'),
      ));
    case 'admin/comment':
    case 'admin/comment/new':
      return t("<p>Below is a list of the latest comments posted to your site. Click on a subject to see the comment, the author's name to edit the author's user information , \"edit\" to modify the text, and \"delete\" to remove their submission.</p>");
    case 'admin/comment/approval':
      return t("<p>Below is a list of the comments posted to your site that need approval. To approve a comment, click on \"edit\" and then change its \"moderation status\" to Approved. Click on a subject to see the comment, the author's name to edit the author's user information, \"edit\" to modify the text, and \"delete\" to remove their submission.</p>");
    case 'admin/comment/configure':
    case 'admin/comment/configure/settings':
      return t("<p>Comments can be attached to any node, and their settings are below. The display comes in two types: a \"flat list\" where everything is flush to the left side, and comments come in chronological order, and a \"threaded list\" where replies to other comments are placed immediately below and slightly indented, forming an outline. They also come in two styles: \"expanded\", where you see both the title and the contents, and \"collapsed\" where you only see the title. Preview comment forces a user to look at their comment by clicking on a \"Preview\" button before they can actually add the comment.</p>");
    case 'admin/comment/configure/matrix':
      return t("<p>Here you assign a value to each item in the comment moderation dropdown menu. This value is added to the vote total, which is then divided by the number of users who have voted and rounded off to the nearest integer.</p><ul><li>In order to use comment moderation, every text box on this page should be populated.</li><li>You must assign the \"moderate comments\" permission to at least one role in order to use this page.</li><li>Every box not filled in will have a value of zero, which will have the effect of lowering a comments overall score.</li></ul>");
    case 'admin/comment/configure/roles':
      return t("<p>You can setup the initial vote value of a comment posted by each user role using these forms. This value is used before any other users vote on the comment. Blank entries are valued at zero.</p>");
    case 'admin/comment/configure/thresholds':
      return t("<p>Use these forms to setup the name and minimum \"cut off\" score to help your users hide comments they don't want to see. These thresholds appear in the user's comment control panel. Click \"edit threshold\" to modify the values of an already existing configuration. To delete a setting, \"edit\" it first, and then choose \"delete threshold\".</p>");
    case 'admin/comment/configure/votes':
      return t('<p>Create and control the possible comment moderation votes here. "Weight" lets you set the order of the drop down menu. Click "edit" to edit a current vote weight. To delete a name/weight combination go to the "edit" area. To delete a setting, "edit" it first, and then choose "delete vote".</p>');
    case 'admin/modules#description':
      return t('Allows users to comment on and discuss published content.');
  }
}