Dammit, forgot the Reply-All. Sorry Harold. There's been talk about letting OpenID users "upgrade" to real accounts, so that comments previously made as someopenid.somesite.com would mutate into comments by someuser when that person got a real account, allowing them to manage their old OpenID comments in that way. Or to put it another way, you can associate an OpenID account (or multiple OpenID accounts) with a "real" user in a hub-spoke arrangement.
Could community importing be assisted by similar mechanisms? For instance: when importing a community, look at each OpenID user and see if that account is associated with a "real" account on DW. If so, import under that real person's username. For small communities where all members have migrated, this would work fine. For larger communities, you would get a partial import, but you could re-import regularly as people are encouraged to move across. K. On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Harold J Hotchkiss <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Lije Carpenter wrote: >> The precise feeling of community that Dreamwidth is attempting to foster >> is going to seem like lip service when people are told they'll have to >> abandon several years' worth of community interaction (all such posts >> and their comments on LJ) for the sake of OpenID users. OpenID >> crossfunctionality is all well and good, but when everyone else is >> deprived of a pretty major feature for the convenience of the OpenID >> crowd... I'd say the emphasis is being placed on the wrong group of users. > > Here's the thing... we're all "the OpenId crowd." Letting your LJ > friends maintain control of their comments when posted to DW is not only > an admirable goal, it's a deal breaker for a lot of people looking to > maintain control of the words that they have written. > Where that fails is that since OpenID accounts cannot post, currently, > then they can't maintain control of their words/posts in an imported > community. > > Example-time: > * You import your journal from LJ - That includes a comment that I made > months back, and since I logged into DW with my LJ OpenID, I can see > that comment, edit it, delete it, etc... > * You import a community you maintain - If I posted to that community a > while ago I now have no ability to go to that entry on DW and edit it, > delete it, freeze comments, etc... all because of a technical > limitation to what an OpenID user can do. > > -- > Harold > > _______________________________________________ > dw-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss > -- Kirrily Robert [email protected] http://infotrope.net _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
