I think we're thinking of more or less the same back-end functionality, yes.
As for display... the profile does that already, and the options include at least day/month, year and day/month/year, so I think that's already addressed for people who want to go ahead and display their info. Cheers, ER On Jan 22, 2009, at 12:39 PM, Silicon Shaman wrote: > I might be over-simplifying the problem, but wouldn't it be far > easier to code and/or address people concerns if it was mandatory > to enter a full birth-date including year... but then one had tick > boxes to indicate if one wished to *display* or not the day/month/ > year of your birthday on your profile page. [so that the user could > decide on their combo] > > The system itself could retain a value for birthdate and calculate > under or over values such as 13/16/18 as a flag, which would not > be transparent to the users, but would be used to set threshold > values for restricted access, as set by community moderators and/or > journal owners. > > But like I said.. maybe I'm off-beam. > -- > Silicon.shaman > Cogito ergo periculosus. > [ I think, therefore I'm dangerous ]. > _______________________________________________ > 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
