Supposing comments belonging to others were imported and privately posted, and comments belonging to the user were imported and posted according to their current screening setting in proper threads with the private comments. This would allow a maximum amount of the user's own content to show up.
Supposing also that the comment screening mechanism were modified to handle privately-posted imported comments. This would be done according to the screening settings on the original post: if unscreened on the original, someone OpenID-authenticated as the original comment poster could elect to own and unprivatescreen comments belonging to them. After this point, the journal owner could screen/unscreen the comment at will. To make this work better, imported comments should be listed somewhere that the OpenID owner of the comments could find them and possibly mass-unprivatescreen/take ownership. --Azz On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Mark Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > At this point, the legal and technical hurdles around importing *other > people's* content (i.e. comments) are going to make doing comments > really difficult and potentially impossible. However, I'm all for > downloading comment data during the import process and storing it > locally on the DW servers so that, if we do solve the problems about > hosting it, we can retroactively do so. > > Another potential solution, make the comments 'private', only the > journal owner can see them. That way we have the record, and the > person who owns the journal can see it, but we're not publishing it. _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
