On Jan 12, 2009, at 11:05 PM, Charmian wrote: > A question about the WTF system. > > If I understand correctly, Trust will under the WTF system be an > entirely separate thing from watching. > > Right now, a person's Friends List is public information. (Although in > suggestions people have asked for an ability to privatize this) You > cannot hide your Friends List on the profile, although you can hide > your Friends-Of list (even though this information can be seen through > other means). > > Will a person's Trust list be public in DW? In other words, either > shown on their profile, or findable through directory search, etc. > Will a Trust relationship between two users be public information, or > will it be private, like filters are now?
Hee, I just answered this on a comment to a friend's entry on LJ! Nice timing. Paraphrasing from there: the trustlist should be public on someone's profile list, just like friends are now, to avoid a situation where a friend makes a post and you wander by and start talking about how much you hate that rahaeli chick, not realizing that I can read the post (and therefore, see the comments) as well. Who is on a specific trust filter won't be public information unless a user chooses to mention it (for instance, I might make a post to my Drafts filter saying "okay, users X, Y, and Z are in this filter, and nobody else, so don't mention it outside of them"). In the future we may add some way to make a filter's users viewable at the owner's discretion, so I could check a box somewhere and say that anyone on the filter can see a username list of who else is on the filter. In other words, it's as-closely replicating the behavior of LJ's visibility model as is possible with the change to the system. You'll know who possibly *could* be reading the friend's post that you're reading, but you won't know for sure if it's filtered to a more restrictive subset or not unless the user chooses to disclose this fact. --D -- Denise Paolucci [email protected] Dreamwidth Studios: Open Source, open expression, open operations. Coming soon! _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
