> > but why can't a community leave > its old entries on LJ where the original authors will have control > over them, and just post new entries on DW, with a link in the profile > and/or journal style that points to the "community archives" on LJ?
That would work at a practical level, and I sure many comms will do just that, but for some it would fracture the community. Many people I know are only on LJ for the sense of community, not the technology. They don't really care what LJ *does* they just want to read posts in comms they belong to. So, okay, you close up shop on a comm and start a new one on DW; the old LJ comm is still there, but closed to new posts. That LJ community just died. The comm is now an archive, not a comm; the new comm at DW is going to get a lot of people migrating over to join, okay, let's be outrageously generous and say, 60% use DW and OpenID to participate. But the other 40%? Well maybe they have other comms at LJ they don't want to not participate in, and/or they don't see the advantage of DW anyway, and/or they got burned by GreatestJournal, so they don't move. An active, thriving comm of 1000 members just become an isolated DW comm of 600 members. The 400 left on LJ start their own comm because they don't want to migrate -- and voila, a community nicely cut to smithereens. Now apply that to a small comm of, say, 85 members (such as one of my own comms I mod). Is that community going to even survive such a split? Probably not. I won't even try to migrate it. Unless LJ kicks us off their servers, that is where we'll stay. IF it had been legal to port the whole comm history over, I could at least say, "It's all here! Nothing left behind! No reason to stay! Join the fun on DW!" then it might -- might -- work. Without that, my efforts to migrate the comm to "safer" waters is moot. I'm a lousy mod, I'll be first to admit that, but I will not take an action that will *purposefully* hack a community apart. > Also, there's no reason why DW can't come up with a technological > solution to the problem - if the development team can find a way to > let the original entry authors retain control over their community > entries even after import (for example, eventually via OpenID), then I > for one wouldn't have nearly as much issue with the legal > ramifications of posting the entry. The DW copyright agent could tell > people at that point "log in via OpenID and you can delete it yourself > if you don't want it on DW" or whatever. That would be awesome, and I hope they do. I don't WANT to stay with LJ, and not because of useability issues. The bells and whistles DW promise to have are great, but what it boils down to is that I don't trust LJ with my content, or the content of the comms I mod. That was *the* deciding factor for me when reading about DW and choosing to "back" it, and make posts at my LJ encouraging my flist to read up on DW. Thanks for your information and I hope my comments here made sense....long day, sorry.... ::::KBS / Mikey
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