Re: Web-based PVPCWC (etc.) scoring tool

I envision a web form with a text box; users would copy the text
of an e-mail, drop it into the form's text box, and press a button.
I suppose this would be done once per e-mail.
My question ... is this: what am I forgetting?

Well, maybe you just didn't say this, but you would have to provide
for the submission of clue messages as well as vote messages. That
way the final report can have clue information integrated with score
information, the way my program does it.

Very likely, when you (as moderator) paste the message in, you will
find that it doesn't exactly match the required format, and you'll
have to do it again. In my experience as a moderator this happens
more often with clue messages than with vote messages. Not only do
they have a more complicated format, but in addition entrants may
give bonus clues and the usual defined format for clue messages doesn't
even provide for those. (This suggests that it might be desirable to
come up with a better format as part of this project.) But the web
form will still have to validate whatever is passed into it.
^
That's called a "river". It was accidental except for two lines.

The traditional UNIX-based kit doesn't include parsing of the clue
messages, by the way; it just provides instructions telling moderators
what intermediate format they have to produce from the original
submissions, and suggests shell commands for extracting the parts
from that.
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