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+Currently, new comments are named with an incrementing ID (comment_N). So
+if a wiki has multiple disconnected servers, and comments are made to the
+same page on both, merging is guaranteed to result in conflicts.
+
+I propose avoiding such merge problems by naming a comment with a sha1sum
+of its (full) content. Keep the incrementing ID too, so there is an
+-ordering. And so duplicate comments are allowed..)
+So, "comment_N_SHA1".
+
+Note: The comment body will need to use meta title in the case where no 
+title is specified, to retain the current behavior of the default title
+being "comment N".
+
+What do you think [[smcv]]? --[[Joey]]