Setting up the suggestions community

[me_and]

In case you ever want to do anything relating to the Make a suggestion page on a Dreamhack, I've recently gone through the process and written it up.

There are a few bits that are decidedly more hacky than I'd like, so it's definitely a thing that would benefit from others looking it over and making improvements, but it'll hopefully save other folk needing to go Perl diving for the details.

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[denise]

Quick as I run out the door

* It's the dw-suggestions comm that has to be paid, not the user posting the suggestion! (Trufax: the reason free users can post polls in paid comms is to make this work.)

* There's no way to mark an account's email address as validated from the console -- you do have to run the worker to send out the email. (Or, I think there's a way to query the db for the validation link and just visit that link directly, but I'm not sure how to do it.)