| * 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.
So we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater? I'm telling you, I don't
think the possibility that Dreamwidth would fail to extend its much-vaunted
importing ability to communities has even crossed the minds of most fen who
would be looking to join the site.
If the community maintainer(s) had to read and agree to a statement that they
would perform any such requested actions from an OpenID user in a timely manner
(at least the freezing comments and deleting posts)—prior to importing their
communities—I think that would cover Dreamwidth's bacon.
This is just really making me scratch my head. Unless you're talking about a
specific community that has been well and truly screwed over by LJ and thus
doesn't care about what's left behind, in which case they've probably already
left for someplace like InsaneJournal, Dreamwidth is asking otherwise
mostly-happy communities to trash everything and start all over again. You
can't manually reconstruct what you didn't write (not easily, anyway), and
you'd be running into even worse control issues if everyone's old posts were to
suddenly turn into posts by the community maintainer(s).
Thanks,
Alexis Carpenter
principia at Dreamwidth
principia_coh at LiveJournal
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