HPR/hpr-tools

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Proposed Plan to Integrate Mastodon Comments into HPR

Background
Process Overview
Changes to existing Database/Website
Pulling Mastodon Comments
Moderation
Variations

Proposed Plan to Integrate Mastodon Comments into HPR

Background

The HPR comment system is unique and may be unfamiliar to some who want to comment.
Mastodon's design makes it easy to leave comments on a Mastodon post.
The proposed goal is to augment the existing HPR comment system with the ability to comment on a HPR episode using Mastodon replies.

Process Overview

The HPR Mastodon bot makes a post announcing a new HPR episode is release
A HPR host replies to the Bot's mastodon post
Relies to the post are pulled via the mastodon API
If the reply belongs to a verified HPR host
- Copy the reply into the comment database
- Display the comment on the HPR website
- Read the comment in the Community News

Changes to existing Database/Website

Add a new Mastodon Account field to the hosts table
Add a new field to the submission form.
Make it explicit that adding a mastodon account to the account field in the for:
- is optional - not required to submit a show
- Required for the hosts mastodon comments to be included in HPR
- Grants permission for HPR to use the comment under a CC license

Pulling Mastodon Comments

Develope a script to
- Parse the HPR bot posts
- Extract replies to the Bot's post
- Verify comment authors mastodon account is included in the hosts table.
- Format the replies so they can be used by the existing comment moderation process.

Moderation

The script can written to output data in the same format as the existing comment system
Comments can be moderated using the existing process.

Variations

Another Method for the commenter to grant permission to HPR to reuse the content
- CC declaration in comment or profile
- ??
Use hash tags to identify a post as a HPR comment