Is there a Mod for a "Comments Section"?
 

I have a debate forum, and I'm going to start holding 1v1 debates with a winner announced at the end. Two members will debate back and forth, and when they are done, I'd like other members to be able to add comments like, "Good Job!" However, I don't want the comments to look like they are part of the thread. I want there to be a sort of "comments section"...

Any ideas? Is there a mod for this?

I'd say add a field in your table for "type or response" or something like that, and then post the type of post, whether comment or actually debate. Then I would say use CSS and some DIV and SPAN tags to separate the two so you could have the comments off on the margin or to the side, or perhaps a DHTML/AJAX/Javascript popup.

There are many ways that you can approach this, but I think that you only need one table in your database.

I have no idea how to do any of that. I'll probably have to get someone to do it for me.

I need something like this because right now I have the "Private Debate" hack installed, which only lets certain members participate in a thread. However I'd like other users to be able to make comments at least. But I want those comments to be separated from the thread, and I don't want all of the postbit to show up and stuff. For example, at the bottom of the thread it'd say:

Similar to the comments you see on the blogs I guess.

EDIT: I think I found something that'll work: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=132710

EDIT2: Never mind. It's not what I was looking for. What this mod did was change all posts after the first post in a thread to that format. So only the first post showed up normally, and all replies after that were made into "comments". That's not what I want.

Here's what I want. I have the "Private Debate" modification installed (https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=122897). That means when you create a new thread, you designate what users are allowed to respond.

However, I'd still like other users to be able to post comments as the debate progresses. I need some sort of plugin that makes this possible.