How about this: Mod imports community. Posts are set up as coming from OpenID names (can't post new posts, but still have control of old ones). BUT all posts are screened as a default. Messages automatically get sent to the people who originally posted those posts, saying "X community got imported to DW" with a list of posts they've made in that community, with the option to either unscreen or delete each post on DW, the option to set up a DW account so they could post to the community now it's moved, and the option to associate the OpenID account with an existing DW account. It would probably take a large, complicated code thingy to do, but it would deal with all of the objections raised so far if I understand them correctly. People still would have ultimate control over their own content, but it would still be moved as a whole. Obviously, it wouldn't answer for all situations (forex, if it's a specifically reference community and the idea of losing a lot of posts from people who don't want to switch or have become inactive and disappeared), but it should work for most communities without being too hinky in the way that it deals with peoples' content.
(I was originally going to suggest just a notification that the posts to x community have been moved with a link to deleting them, but moving without asking first is hinky enough even if you screen it in the new place so no one can read it but the original poster.) Beatrice Otter _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
