README.txt in Discuss This! 5

README
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This module allows for a useful connection between story/node content on your
site and forum discussions about that content. For each selected node type, the
module provides a Discuss This! link that will auto-generate a forum topic or
link to an existing one to allow users to discuss the story within the forums
rather than as standard comments.

There are a number of configuration options: the administrator can choose what
content types have the Discuss This! link enabled, and for each of these
content types, a default forum in which to create discussion topics. For each
node, the default forum can be overridden, or alternately a previously-created
forum topic can be selected to link to.

Features
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* Site users can initiate new discussion topics in your sites forums
  instead of (or in addition to) regular comments. A "forum topic" node will be
  created and the user will be given the opportunity to post a comment on this.
* per-content-type settings to determine what types of nodes will use Discuss This! comments
* admins can configure who authors newly-created topics, and in what forum
* Token-based templating of new topics title/body

Permissions
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'initiate discuss this topics': create a new Discuss This! topic within the within the default forum
'access discuss this links': view Discuss This! to an existing forum topic
'override discuss this links': change the default forum/topic in which discussions for a node will occur
'administer discuss this': modify the site-wide default settings for discuss this

Requirements
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This module requires Drupal 5.x with forum.module enabled, and Token module installed.

Installation
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See INSTALL.txt

Contributors
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Derek Laventure 

Sponsored by: rabble.ca