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gavin did a nice job with his code, glad someone took the time to post it. it's very reusable and even though I had something very similar in one of my projects - Gavin's was cleaner and more reusable thanks to his generics implementation. This is code many smaller sites could benefit from, and even larger sites if they implement an intelligent locking strategy. heck, dotnetkicks is a pretty popular site I'd say and uses this same code.

Nice post. Lucene doesn't get much recognition in the .net space (not that I've seen at least). Good stuff, thx.

yea gavin...spread the JQuery love baby.

i've also seen gravatar sllloooooooow down sites. @cdjaco - i kinda see what yer getting at in reducing complexity and dev time...but i could also respond with "why not just use digg instead of DNK"...essentially what yer saying, since digg has more features and it would save gavin and the dev team the dev time.

essentially, caveat emptor.

gavin, you can't just do gravatar...well ya could but I wouldn't suggest it.

first, you force people to use a 3rd party service which only exists to profit from you forcing your users to create a gravatar.

second, most people here will have an account on DNK before they ever create a gravatar account.

so make it profile option, but don't force it...please.

gavin, once we add avatars...I'll have to redo the code I just added ;P

it will be much cooler though.

I also realize that evevntually we should add ajax/dom funcitonality so that when a user kicks the story on this page that we immediately add them to the "userrs who kicked".

that won't be difficult at all...need to add it to the lsit though.

LOL...that did take you too long to convert. JQUERY is the shiz.

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