On Jan 26, 2009, at 3:35 PM, Jenett wrote: > 2) I wonder what would happen if we let creators of community pick > their preferred option as part of the creation process (and obviously, > change it later if they changed their minds). > > i.e. if they were non-responsive for an extended period of time (don't > respond to emails, have not accessed their personal account that's the > moderator, etc), would they rather have another moderator assigned, > have the terms of service team pick from a list of names of people > they think would be good, freeze the community somehow (no new posts, > but existing ones other than the problem posts/comments would remain), > or delete the whole thing? > > I can see drama potential for this - but especially if there was some > way to make it easy for the community creator to make it clear up > front (like a section on the profile page), at least people would have > advance warning. >
I like this idea. It would take a little extra coding, yes, but perhaps not too very much? There has to be a table for community settings and such already, perhaps it could be put there. (Blithely says she who has never actually explored the table taxonomy.) I especially like the idea of having a notice automatically included on the profile page. This is (also) departing from the immediate point a bit, but it seems to me it would be helpful to have an extra section in the profiles of communities where one or two settings might generate automatic notices. For example, if membership is moderated or closed, if the comm is age-limited, and, supposing a setting option like the above is adopted, which option is in force. Some of this is already done, up in the "click here to join" area, but that isn't very well highlighted, visually. If there were a specific section allocated for Community Settings/Notices, one bullet point to a notice, that might draw it to users' attention better. Cheers, ER _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
