On Aug 14, 2008, at 7:24 AM, zvi wrote:
Two, I really, really, really, really, really want that anyone who is
officially speaking for Dreamwidth be easily and officially
identified. Like, if you could create a staffer account with its own
separate icon, that would be the most awesome, but, failing that, an
icon that you used when making an official statement and a statement
on your userinfo that sometimes you were speaking officially plus a
link to a Dreamwidth site page with a current list of staff (so we
could see if someone had become disassociated but hadn't gotten around
to changing their userinfo yet.)
Yes -- we very much want to create a separate account type, so that
anyone who's speaking as staff has some kind of visual
identification. More than just a userpic (since an icon could be
uploaded by anyone), and more than using a single shared staff
account (because we want people to be able to get to know staffers as
people/as users too, not just as one collective identity).
What we're going to be doing is kinda like what LJ did for the
sponsored communities -- sponsored communities appear with a
different LJ-user head. We'll be doing that for DW, too, so that when
you see a comment made by "denise" or "mark", there'll be a clear
visual representation that hey, these people work here. That way,
nobody will have to wonder, and it will force us to clearly disclaim
when we're *not* speaking 'for' DW, rather than making us explicitly
state when we *are*. (The confusion you mention is one of the things
that I always hated about working for LJ.)
--D
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Denise Paolucci
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Dreamwidth Studios: Open Source, open expression, open operations.
Coming Summer 2008!
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