[Stefan, can you please keep python-dev in the CC list?] On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Guido van Rossum wrote: > > On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 2:58 AM, Stefan Behnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> 2) anonymous users can post comments that won't become publicly visible > until > >> an authenticated user acknowledges them or comments on them. > > > > Can you work out this design more? I don't understand how an > > authenticated user can acknowledge an anonymous comment if it isn't > > publicly visible. > > I was suggesting that you'd sign in as a project member and would then see > all > comments. Hm. Since most users of the site are project members this means most people would see the anonymous comments (= potential spam). However, the anonymous user couldn't see their *own* comments back later (or be allowed to edit them). Doesn't sound like a good idea to me. > They just wouldn't show up on the public web sites without further > action. I think that matches the normal work flow. External users usually do > some kind of upstream talk anyway. It would be rare that no project member is > involved in a patch contribution. And new contributions would go through the > bug tracker first anway, right? Not necessarily. Unless there's an uprising, I'll keep support for anonymous comments a non-goal for now. > > Also, AFAIK our bug tracker doesn't support > > anonymous comments either, so I don't think this is an important use > > case. > > > >> That should be enough to keep the system open to everybody and to keep > spam away. > > > > It's also more work to code. > > Sure, it's also just an idea from my side. > > Stefan > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
