Something else that just occurred to me: Will the official account be completely separate from the personal account, or could it be integrated with the master/sub accounts system? And how would it affect things if it were a sub-account?
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 7:24 PM, zvi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Reading through the progress report, when I saw that you had > individual and community journal icons, I thought of something. Two > somethings. > > One, you may want to identify sub accounts (of the ongoing master/sub > accounts) as such. (or, maybe you don't. I don't feel strongly either > way, although I do have a slight preference that different account > types are visibly different.) > > 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.) > > One of the things that made LJ crazier the past few years is that new > people came on and were staff (and you had to take their word for it, > if their first appearance was in comments, instead of by posting in an > official comm) or people left and weren't staff but you had to find > out through gossip or following their personal journal or some really > broken way involving close reading of official announcements or the LJ > Herald. > > *I* know at this point that DW is Denise and Mark. But (a) I suspect > that there will be additional staffers at some point (I project your > growth will be just that amazing!) and (b) there will be people > joining the site after launch who won't know that, and need to know > how seriously to take this guy they've never heard of in comments. > > That's some pretty low hanging fruit, I think, but it would improve > the site interaction over LJ about twelve trillion times. > > -- > zvi likes television > website - http://www.slashx-files.com/ > journal - http://zvi_likes_tv.livejournal.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > dw-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss > _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
