On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Philip Newton <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 00:05, Andrew Ducker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Erica Frank wrote:
> >>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 21:44, Andrew Ducker <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>>  > I have a suggestion:
> >>>  > A new level of user: Comment-only.
> >>>  > These have a single icon, and are not allowed to make posts.
> >>
> >> Currently, OpenID accounts get six icons/userpics, and are not allowed
> >> to make posts. Why would anyone switch?
> >
> > Aaah - didn't realise this!
> >
> > Then all you need to do is only allow them to make posts if they have
> > received an invite code, and you avoid the problems that Denise was
> > talking about.
>
> Or reduce OpenID accounts to one userpic, to bring them in line with
> the proposed comment-only status :)
>
> (Which could also be an incentive to pay or obtain an invite code.)
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Philip Newton <[email protected]>
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The biggest problem I see in all this is that should someone using OpenID
through LJ or another site lose their password and account to someone like a
hacker, or even trade the journal used with the OpenID, this will
effectively bypass everything suggested. That someone else can in
turn discover the OpenID account that was made on DW and cause problems for
the person who initially set it up.

I fully understand the idea behind OpenID getting upgraded to an actual
account, but it still has a few legal rammifications that need to be brought
to light.
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