Admittedly, I'm not supremely attached to any of the communities I'm a member of, so this may sound naive, but why can't a community leave its old entries on LJ where the original authors will have control over them, and just post new entries on DW, with a link in the profile and/or journal style that points to the "community archives" on LJ?
Also, there's no reason why DW can't come up with a technological solution to the problem - if the development team can find a way to let the original entry authors retain control over their community entries even after import (for example, eventually via OpenID), then I for one wouldn't have nearly as much issue with the legal ramifications of posting the entry. The DW copyright agent could tell people at that point "log in via OpenID and you can delete it yourself if you don't want it on DW" or whatever. --ryan (LJ teshiron) On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Mikey Grrrl <[email protected]> wrote: > That is a fantastic source of information and clears up several "gray areas" > for me as a mod. It makes sense and puts to rest the idea of importing comms > wholesale. > > Alas, one of the reasons I was so keen on migration is that I don't trust LJ > with my content, or the content of the comms I mod. I do backups, yes, but > then what? Say the comm gets deleted, then what good is the backup if it is > locked on my harddrive forevermore because I can't repost it anywhere? No, > not actually looking for an answer, and the legal ramifications are not > pretty either, but there you go, my concern in a nutshell. And it remains > completely unsolveable -- the solution I THOUGHT was there, DW, isn't. At > all. For very valid legal reasons. I can't even import the content much less > be worried that it will be safe there or not, so end of the road. > > It really IS a deal breaker for me. I don't want to "go halfsies" with all > my comms on LJ and my personal journals on DW. I'll get a DW account to > reserve my usernames in the event that LJ goes "catastrophic failure" but I > foresee that will be all. > > And alas, I think this will severely hamper DW's growth. Once major players > realize their comms are not coming over with them, the allure to migrate > will evaporate. I can't think of a single user feature that DW could offer > me that outweighs the community involvement I have at LJ, and I know a lot > of "non-super-users" will feel the same. :( > > ::::KBS / Mikey > > ~Always Blameless~ _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
