Denise Paolucci wrote: > 2). Allowing OpenID users to function as full-featured personal > accounts would completely bypass the invite code system, which we are > using as necessary to control site growth and limit the number of > free (unpaying) accounts to a number that can be supported by the > then-current percentage of paid accounts. The features that personal > accounts have access to are the ones that cost us money to offer. > (OpenID accounts also cost us money to support, in terms of the > resources they consume in viewing, but that's also factored into the > free user::paid user ratio.)
I have a suggestion: A new level of user: Comment-only. These have a single icon, and are not allowed to make posts. All OpenID users will be of this type - and others will be able to create them _without_ an invite token. This way anyone can comment on posts from the get-go. An invite token then allows you to convert a Comment-only user into a Basic user. This comment-only user could be either a DW account or an OpenID account - it wouldn't matter. That would simplify the whole system _and_ mean that DW was a full-on OpenID supporter, without overloading the system at start-up. It would also mean that people could snap up user accounts early, without the ability to post, thus meaning that they got the account they wanted, and were attached to DW, but weren't posting and thus sucking up your CPU/bandwidth as much. It's probably too late to even consider this kind of thing, but I thought I should share the idea, having had it :-> Andy _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
