Is it reasonable to distinguish between Free and Non-Free in the sharing realm and to share more info about Free plays by default/
drew On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Torstein Adolf Winterseth<[email protected]> wrote: > How about when you log in for the first time you'll be asked to check > off what data you want to share, but everything is off by default and > a HELPFUL text says what each do. That way the user can choose what to > share and what not to share :) > > 2009/6/6 Michael Gratton <[email protected]>: >> On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 10:53 -0400, Matt Lee wrote: >>> The user should have at least the following privacy options, and their >>> defaults... >>> >>> * Make my listening data public by daily dumps -- off >>> * Allow a non-user to see more than my last 50 songs -- off >>> * Allow a non-friend to see more than my last 50 songs -- off >>> * Allow my profile to be seen by non-friends -- off >>> * Allow my profile to be indexed -- off >>> * Allow my listening data to be included in an anonymous dump -- off >>> >>> Do these seem reasonable? This errs on the side of giving the user the >>> most protection. Everything would be opt-in. >> >> I think that depends on the nature of the site. For public (like >> libre.fm) instances, people would presumably join since they actually do >> want to share some information about themselves and their listening >> habits in order to find more good music to listen to. In these cases >> most of the above should be on by default. Having them off by default >> would be like when a badly designed desktop application asks you to >> confirm the thing you asked it to do — "Did you really mean to click >> "OK"? [OK] [Cancel]". >> >> For private instances, defaulting everything to off is probably valid, >> you'd maybe just use a public installation otherwise. >> >> So it seems that having the source code default to creating new accounts >> with maximum privacy might be a good thing, but being able to configure >> it so that public installations create accounts that share more >> information by default would also be good. Of course, there needs to be >> some decent UI to allow the user to tweak their personal settings, too. >> >> /Mike >> >> -- >> ⎊ Michael Gratton. "Mea navis aëricumbens anguillis abundat." >> ⎈ <http://web.vee.net/> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Libre-fm mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm >> >> > > > > -- > > --Torstein > _______________________________________________ > Libre-fm mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm > -- http://zotzbro.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Libre-fm mailing list [email protected] http://lists.autonomo.us/mailman/listinfo/libre-fm
