> So we're throwing the baby out with the bathwater? I'm telling you, I don't > think the possibility that Dreamwidth would fail to extend its much-vaunted > importing ability to communities has even crossed the minds of most fen who > would be looking to join the site.
(I'm responding to the entire thread, but using your comment as the general thing I'm addressing.) It's kind of a tricky problem. We have already gotten more than a handful of emails from people who don't like the comment imports. They don't want their content on DW, period, and that's something we want to respect in the best way we can. Comments are fairly easy to justify importing, though, because you posted them in someone else's space. There's a sort of implicit agreement that you give the owner of the space (journal) the authority to manage your comment. You allow them to show it or hide it (by changing entry security or screening) or just deleting it outright. With posts, there is a completely different set of assumptions. Personally, when I post somewhere, I assume that I own that post. Community maintainers may have some rights to come in and manage their community, but I have rights over my post. If you take that and push it off to another site, there is a distinct loss of control which we have to address before we can even consider doing that. Denise didn't say that community imports WILL NOT happen, just that they probably won't. If we (communal we here, not Denise and I specifically) can figure out a way to address the copyright/ownership/control issues satisfactorily, then we (Denise and I) would be quite happy to make the importer work on communities. Let's redirect the conversation a bit, try to get people who are uncomfortable with their content being imported (wrt communities) to speak up, and figure out how we can try to address those concerns. (And now, I have to get back to my $dayjob... but I'll check back in later!) -- Mark Smith / xb95 [email protected] _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
