I am so made of fail today. First I sent the email not to the list, and now I've just realised I forgot the link to the discussion post:
http://fourth-rose.livejournal.com/232650.html - Atalan Time for more coffee I think... --- On Wed, 6/5/09, Atalan <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Atalan <[email protected]> > Subject: [DW Discuss] Comment Control for OpenID > To: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, 6 May, 2009, 6:13 PM > > Hi all, > > There's been some discussion (largely here: ) of the fact > that when users import their LJs to DW, they bring all the > comments with them, and the commenters are then assigned > OpenIDs whether they choose to or not. While I think it's > good that imported comments are given that level of control, > there are people who aren't too happy with having even a > passive account on DW without choosing it, especially since > there's no way to distinguish (other than commonsense "if it > was made before two weeks ago", which will rapidly become > passe) comments that have been imported from another site > from ones that were made by someone logging in actively with > their OpenID. > > I've played around with my own OpenID and as far as I can > see, although I can go and hunt down all the imported > comments seperately and delete or screen them, there is no > option to mass delete/screen/control imported comments. It > looks to me like it should be something that could be > implemented, since we already have the comment tracking code > for the recent comments/notifications stuff. > > I'm a big fan of Dreamwidth and personally have no problem > with my LJ comments being imported, but at the same time I > don't like the idea of people feeling like they're being > pressured into association with the service. I'd be > interested in a) knowing what people think and b) whether or > not it would be possible for OpenID users to mass-delete old > comments. Giving them that functionality would, I think, > then make the issue one to be discussed between users ("is > it okay if I keep your comments/do you mind if I delete my > comments") rather than the responsibility of DW. > > Thoughts? > > - Atalan > > --- > > "This is your captain speaking, we may experience some > turbulence and then, uh, explode." > > "Do you know they call Vimes 'Vetinari's Terrier'? Terriers > dig and dig and don't let go." > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dw-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss > _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
