-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/25/09 6:08 AM, Tuomas Koski wrote: > Cheers all, > > I may have a need for a new affiliation state: 'Moderator' > > User with affiliation state 'Moderator' would be like the 'Publisher', > but could also modify the affiliation states of other node's > subscribers (excluding 'Owner' and this possible new affiliation state > 'Moderator'). > > > Example use case could be for example: > > There is a popular Pubsub -node with high traffic and lots of > subscription requests. Also there is one drunken 'basterd' with > Publisher affiliation who starts to send unwanted items to the node. > The Owner of the node is not online. > > Users with 'Moderator' affiliation would be able to Outcast the > drunken one and accept/deny subscriptions to the channel. > > > Of course to add this new affiliation state would have a need to > change a bit the XEP-0060's "Owner Use Cases" and/or then allow this > new affiliation state to use " > http://jabber.org/protocol/pubsub#owner"; namespace. > > > Does anyone come up with a better idea how to handle the above use case?
What you are asking for is very similar to a room administrator in MUC, I think. I'm not yet convinced that we need an affiliation for this (I would prefer not to multiply affiliations beyond necessity). I see the need in MUC because it's a real-time communication system. Peter - -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkr2kiMACgkQNL8k5A2w/vx1KQCg590k3MmhPpMFh8r7t/1S9yIa nQYAoM5AGtPUffzWKVhrwHj2mhnxhHEq =1OB/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
