people actually posting on my rlist

[charmian]

dw_community_promo now exists.

Two people on my rlist have posted their thoughts on DW.

manticore here: The first thing... It's just untenable. This is the "I want everyone except for 'these people' to read my journal. The problem is the set of "DW users" can be literally ANYONE. Who knows? Maybe HR personnel slack at work and are logged into DW also. It just doesn't make sense to say "everyone" can read my journal because the set of everyone is everyone, unless DW employs a blacklist and a ninja squad who sneak into the offices and homes of those on the blacklist and install software which makes DW invisible to them. I suggested to manticore that she should make a comm and have open membership, then allow anyone to join the comm. That way she wouldn't need to tediously approve everyone. I don't really think it works to make DW like one giant message board, because inevitably people will use the feature in different ways, and a message board is much more closely moderated than a LJ fork site is.

morineko has some thoughts on Design Personas and the [this is good] feature. I totally agree with morineko's thoughts on the [this is good] feature.

The [this is good] feature, which works like the "like" on Tumblr, is a low pressure way of giving feedback. As she says "[this is good] was used to rec files without having to actually interact with the user who uploaded it. "

I'm also glad to hear that there is some thought given to CMS features on DW. This will make the software more useful for "people who make things."

Comments

[morineko]

Blog deletion is so wanky, though. The horse has far left the barn and you probably have readers whom you don't even know (because they don't subscribe to strangers' journals on LJ due to the friending paradigm) who will be flipping to your journal one day to find an old post...but they'll find everything gone.

[manticore]

Well, it's not my intention to be wanky, just more cautious :( But I guess I'd have to go back and lock things down harder, which will achieve the same purpose. Another problem is, of course, is that if I friend someone who wants to read certain posts, then I have to give them general access to locked posts, which defeats the purpose of locked posts unless I establish a second and third and fourth filter.

It's interesting, in a way! In Japanese fandom, I've noticed that it seems to be the norm for site owners and bloggers to just delete everything all of a sudden and move to a new site, but that sort of thing just isn't done in Western media or other fandoms, because it's either seen as a ridiculous flounce (which it often is) or a personal slap in the face of readers (which it may or may not be).