*shamelessly displays complete technical ignorance* Would it be possible to build a loophole into the system so that openids can't create new posts in communities but can edit old entries to which their openid is attached.
Currently, I can edit an entry I make to a community because my livejournal or dreamwidth account name is connected to that entry. Would it be possible to have community entries be imported with the open ID identity of the original poster attached to the entry as the poster, without that meaning that open ID users could make *new* community posts? That way the original poster would still have control over their words, just not the ability to post more of them to the community. Cat --- [email protected] wrote: From: Harold J Hotchkiss <[email protected]> To: Lije Carpenter <[email protected]> Cc: dw-discuss <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [DW Discuss] Importing question: how does/will importing communities work? Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 17:47:37 -0400 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 _____________________________________________________________ Are you a Techie? Get Your Free Tech Email Address Now! Visit http://www.TechEmail.com _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
