I don't think piecemeal importing is the answer. I know that I, for one, would look at such a requirement and throw up my hands and never even try it.
At the same time, I would be pretty infuriated if I found that an entry I had posted to a comm had been reposted somewhere I could not assert any control over it. Control of one's own content is a pretty bedrock feature of LJ and all it's offspring. So I also don't think that the current stop on comm imports is in any way unreasonable. I would *like* to have comm imports. But only if control of one's content can be maintained. And, given what I said first about the turn-off factor of any major hassle being involved for the users, it seems to me the best way to address the problem is indeed at the back end, by figuring out some way for non-native (that is OpenID) users to assert control over imported entries. (Lost track of who said this first, but +1.) Since the importer is going to mark entries according to where they came from, perhaps that can be used as a lever? So that users with only OpenID identities can be given permission to do entry-type- things only with entries of that particular category. Cheers, ER _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
