A story downvote is considered a flag, just meaning the story has
problems and not necessarily that the user wants to ignore it. By
moving hiding out of Vote and into a new HiddenStory model, a user
can now both downvote/flag and hide separately, or just one or the
other.
Ignore the title presented by the user unless we couldn't find
anything, but start out by fetching the URL and trying some <meta>
tags first, then <title>, then use the title the user brought.
Initial story hotness was zero, which excluded stories with no other
upvotes from the homepage. Before creating, define initial hotness
to something.
Since this now makes very new stories show up on the homepage right
away, expand the window back to 48 hours.
This requires a Story.recalculate_all_hotnesses! to properly sort
things.
Instead of hard-coding the scheme and host everywhere, use _path
methods to show relative URLs.
Except that our previous setting of
Rails.application.routes.default_url_options in
config.after_initialize made this moot because Rails inserts that
host into all _path helpers for some reason. So revert that
setting.
But then anything that wants an absolute URL doesn't know the
hostname and the root_url helper throws an exception. So make a
Rails.application.root_url shortcut to pass the per-app settings in
Rails.application to root_url.
Now we can just use _path helpers most places but still use _url
ones where we need them, such as in RSS views and e-mail templates.
Upvoted route shows all stories a logged in user have upvoted
in reverse chronological order, latest upvote first.
It is not shown in the gui, but reachable at /upvoted.
stories should either be reported for spam (coming later), upvoted,
or left alone rather than being downvoted for being uninteresting.
since users don't like leaving uninteresting things alone, they can
now hide stories from their view without affecting the story's
score.
hiding is implemented as a Vote with its vote set to 0 and the
reason set to "H"
add a /hidden url which shows all of a user's hidden stories
while i'm here, simplify Vote guts and add some tests to make sure
all the flip-flopping stuff works right
always allow a user to "unvote" if they're previously downvoted, but
after a certain number of days, don't accept new downvotes
there isn't really any benefit in downvoting old stuff that is
already off the front pages or on a dead comment thread, other than
to maliciously strip karma for particular users