I've just joined the list but have been following this discussion through my wife. i'm thinking the following solution might be a good compromise:
1) import ALL comments (!!) into the system 2) flag all comments as hidden/suppressed except for these cases: public entry/public comment; anonymous comment; user-owned comment 3) allow the journal owner to contact the comment owners through some interface, whereby each comment owner will receive a personal email with some uniquely identifying hash 4) the comment owner comes to an interface (using that hash) that allows them to mass-approve/selectively delete comments for that journal as for the case of a comment owner not taking any action... if there's a reasonable time period that's passed, maybe the comments would get switched on automatically, preserving the original privacy settings. but that just brings the issue back to legality. and if that's ok to do, i guess the above solution is overkill. -k Denny wrote: > On Thu, 2009-01-08 at 14:02 +0000, Sophie wrote: > >> I know a few people who would be very unhappy if they were >> unable to delete comments that they originally wrote on the service >> that was to be imported from. >> > > Somebody is always going to be unhappy. The real questions are (a) what > does the law (probably) say on the subject? (so DW is legally covered) > and (b) are those people being reasonable or unreasonable? (so DW is > morally covered) > > Personally, if it is indeed possible to render a comment undeleteable by > freezing it, then I think any comment posted to a journal other than > your own is well and truly out of your control - so expecting to control > it beyond that point is a bit optimistic. And, yes, unreasonable. > > As long as we keep screened things screened and private posts private > (etc), I don't think the transfer itself is morally objectionable - it's > the same content, in (almost) the same context - that's what I'd call > reasonable. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
