Determining access to comments

摘要

The subject technology discloses configurations for providing comments restricted to a set of users for web content on a web page. In one implementation, a widget is provided that enables a content provider or a user to provide comments restricted to the set of users in a manner that does not disrupt an existing implementation or presentation of publicly viewable web content that already provides public comments from visitors of the web site. In particular, the widget may be provided as a plugin or extension in the user's web browser, or be integrated in the web page by the content provider. The scope of the comments restricted to the set of users are defined by one or more access control lists, which allow the comments restricted to the set of users to be only viewable by a specified set of users (and not viewable by other users).

主权项

1. A machine-implemented method, the method comprising:
determining one or more public comments provided in a web page, the one or more public comments comprising a first format for providing public commenting by one or more viewers of the web page, the first format being provided by a first service which is associated with the web page and which does not natively support user interaction with a social graph; receiving comment data, the comment data being in response to a respective public comment among the determined one or more public comments; receiving a selection of a set of users that defines a scope for viewing the received comment data; generating a comment thread restricted to the set of users based on the scope for viewing the received comment data, the generated comment thread comprising a second format for providing commenting restricted to the set of users, the second format being associated with a second service for permitting access to the social graph; and providing the generated comment thread restricted to the set of users for display in the web page, the generated comment thread with the second format being integrated within content of the determined one or more public comments with the first format.