Altered Copy Story to automatically star stories copied into the story area and unstar those that were removed. To do this, when you press the 'Update Story' button the script checks which author tags (the (author,date) info appended to a story when you push one of the copy links) were added or removed (or otherwise mutilated) and stars accordingly. This does not work if you push the copy button offered by the site, as that one doesn't add author tags.
It's still possible to star and unstar stories yourself of course. If e.g. you had to remove a story because you had to make space for another one or because you're publishing your own, but you feel like it still deserves a star, push the star icon for that story after you updated the story. Or if you copied a story, but don't really think it deserves a star, unstar it afterwards. Partly because of this reason, automatic starring does not apply to stories copied with an earlier version of this script. I'm currently working on a script that will star earlier copied stories for every frame in one go.
The script now also displays the star and report count in the top part of the story area for a story you published. Even if it received no stars yet, the star icon will still appear, making it easy to recognize whether you published it or not without having to click on the story to see the checkbox (unpublished stories will never show anything, even if they had previously received stars or reports). Also, clicking on one of the icons will jump to the spot in the shared story section where your story is listed, so you can check in what company it is.
For newcomers to this script, the script adds up to 3 links ([+], [-], [o]) next to each shared story, that when clicked, will copy the story into the story edit area, each in a different way. [+] simply copies the story as is, much like the site's copy button (the white pages icon at the right end of the star and report buttons), [-] swaps #'s and *'s (keywords and primitives) and [o] lowercases and turns into primitives words in full uppercase. The latter links are to counter some "alternative" story formatting styles.
Unlike the copy icon, the previous story content is preserved and copied stories are added to the end, with two newlines to separate them. Use the Story with Line Breaks script to display paragraphs properly and the Clear and restore story script to conveniently clear previous content.
Also, as already mentioned above, a copied story will be followed by an (author,date) span to identify the original author and update time at the time of copying. Very useful for checking which story was borrowed and which is your own, whether a new version was published, or for gathering info such as from which author you borrowed most, or for implementing features like automatic (un)starring.
Last edited by woelpad (2008 May 02, 4:20 am)
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