Mark Smith wrote: >> I think maybe we discussed this about six months ago, but I can't >> remember what the upshot was. >> >> Presently, while LJ allows the user to suppress display on her profile >> of who has friended her (i.e. no friend-of list), it doesn't allow her >> not to show her list of friended journals. >> >> How will WTF be represented on the profile page, and will users have >> the ability to elect not to reveal their Watch and/or Trust lists on >> their profiles? >> >> (I'd really like the option of not exposing that info unless I want to.) > > We've decided to keep the same logic LJ has, almost. > > 1) You can hide your "watch list" (aka "reading list"), as it doesn't > matter who you are actually reading. > 2) You can hide your membership to communities (some, or all). > 3) You can NOT hide your "trust" list.
That strikes me as backwards, and only half complete. As I see it there are four cases on DW when dealing with personal journals. 1) People I watch 2) People watching me 3) People I trust 4) People who trust me On LJ you can hide all the people who have friended you (2 & 4) but you can't hide the people you yourself have friended (1 & 3). This makes sense because even if you did hide your friends anyone can still come up and read your friends page and realize who it is you're reading (from any public posts your friends make). Since there won't be the friends page equivalent for your trust list it follows that this information should be hide-able on the profile as well, leaving case 1 (People I watch) as the only one forced in the open because it can be deduced from your journal itself. -- Harold _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
