I think what Denise has been saying is that all of this is theoretically possible, except at the moment there's no way to associate a post with an OpenID, nor is there a way to screen a post, so both of these would have to be invented first.
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:24 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > How about this: Mod imports community. Posts are set up as coming from > OpenID names (can't post new posts, but still have control of old ones). > BUT all posts are screened as a default. Messages automatically get sent > to the people who originally posted those posts, saying "X community got > imported to DW" with a list of posts they've made in that community, with > the option to either unscreen or delete each post on DW, the option to set > up a DW account so they could post to the community now it's moved, and > the option to associate the OpenID account with an existing DW account. > It would probably take a large, complicated code thingy to do, but it > would deal with all of the objections raised so far if I understand them > correctly. People still would have ultimate control over their own > content, but it would still be moved as a whole. Obviously, it wouldn't > answer for all situations (forex, if it's a specifically reference > community and the idea of losing a lot of posts from people who don't want > to switch or have become inactive and disappeared), but it should work for > most communities without being too hinky in the way that it deals with > peoples' content. > > (I was originally going to suggest just a notification that the posts to x > community have been moved with a link to deleting them, but moving without > asking first is hinky enough even if you screen it in the new place so no > one can read it but the original poster.) > > Beatrice Otter > _______________________________________________ > dw-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss >
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