Re: Change my contributor information

On 12/16/2013 12:43 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Joshua D. Drake (jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com) wrote:
>> On 12/16/2013 11:06 AM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>>> Pretty sure we discussed this at some earlier point and said we didn't want
>>>> that in order to have things moderated. But if we do actually want it, it
>>>> shouldn't be very hard to implement...
>>>
>>> Well, I think people should be able to change their contact information
>>> and company affiliation on their own. They shouldn't be able to change
>>> their own contributor status, of course.
>>
>> Right. Let us just manage our contributor "profile", not the level
>> or whether we are or aren't.
>
> Being able to manage it and having it pulled dynamically are two quite
> different things, of course. I'm all for letting users manage the
> source data which is used to generate the results, but I'd suggest there
> be a review process or similar which happens prior to publication of a
> change, just to ensure that we don't end up with garbage out there
> somehow, which I think is what Magnus was hinting at up-thread.
>
> Maybe we even just have it be an email which is sent out when changes
> are done, but if we *do* end up with garbage, it'd be out there for
> however long it takes for someone to see the email *and* take corrective
> action.

I think we are thinking way to hard about this. If someone puts garbage
on their profile that just makes them look bad.

JD

>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen
>

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