I agree that any proposed avatars and/or bios belong with the User themselves... Maybe there's even a way to override the user avatar or bio per specific weblog...?
- Nelz On 1/25/07, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/25/07, Allen Gilliland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave wrote: > >> anyone object to adding these 2 attributes for weblogs? > > > > Yes. Don't those belong on the user or a new user-profile object? A > > weblog has multiple users and could therefore have multiple bios and > > avatars. > > Doh, I meant to specifically address that in my original email but forgot :/ > > I had the same initial thought, but I came up with a few reasons why > these items wouldn't be associated with a user profile actually ... > > 1. with the many-to-many relationship between users and weblogs there is > really no reliable way to get to a user from a weblog and more > importantly there is no guaranteed way of getting a single user for a > weblog. so it would be troublesome to figure out which profile to use > in group blog situations. > > 2. users may own multiple weblogs and may not want to use the same > avatar and bio on both/all of them. > > 3. users may also come and go from a weblog, i.e. join and be owner for > a while then leave it to someone else. while this isn't likely to > happen very often, it would be a definite problem if a user who was > controlling the avatar and bio on a weblog and that stuff wasn't > available anymore. > > I also think that at the end of the day the image and bio are really a > property of the weblog and in most cases are just being used to > highlight the author. However, in many cases they can be used in a more > generic way such as being an icon and a tagline. So I think it's > easiest and most appropriate to have them as properties of a weblog. In that case it makes more since to call the field "about" instead of "bio" -- it's a bit of text about the blog, which could be used as a bio or something else. And instead of avatar how about "image" or "icon"? It would definitely be useful to also have those fields in the user object or a new user-profile object, that way group blogs like The Aquarium could include an about page that automatically lists each blogger in the blog and a photo of each and is automatically updated as member hip in the group blog changes -- you won't be able to do that with one bio and avatar for the whole blog. - Dave
