Lije Carpenter wrote: > | 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. > > I can't keep a community mod from choosing not to post my content, if > it's a moderated community. I can't keep a maintainer from deleting my > posts. Nor can I keep them from removing my posting access to a > community. Or banning me outright. Or deleting their entire community, > lock, stock, and barrel. Not to mention all the control maintainers have > over comments to "my" posts.
As poster of the original entry, no matter what the moderator does, you still have control over the content of the post. You can delete it yourself, edit it, freeze comment threads, or turn off commenting altogether (all as long as the entry still exists). The loss of this control is what I and others object to. > | 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. > > Honest question: if the maintainers of communities held polls, > formulated specifically by Dreamwidth so there is no variance in the > language, and a majority (or even a super-majority, just to be safe), of > their current membership agreed to allow their content to be imported to > Dreamwidth, would that suffice as proof that the will of a given > community as a whole and thus allow a given community to import its > content to Dreamwidth? I wouldn't accept it. All a poll does is get the opinions of people currently active in the community. It says nothing about the people no longer participating whose content you want to include in the move. -- Harold _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
