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On 02/01/13 18:55, Simon Avery wrote: > While this is being discussed, my thoughts, which are worth not much. > As discussed on IRC but most of y'all ain't there. > > New content. > > At present, you cannot register on the website. I understand the > reasoning (bots, spam) but I disagree with them. There are more > elegant ways to deal with scripted attacks. > > Worse, there doesn't appear to be any information on how to register, > who to ask or what access or benefits doing so would bring. There are > also no guides to posting new content or similar. There is a basic guide up there now from Neil Stone (Flash) > > This undoubtedly puts people off (it does me) so content creation is > restricted to those "in the know". A boys' club, elitest, potentially > viewable as unfriendly as well as puts undue strain on a few. Not > good. > > Possible solutions: > > 1. Allow free registrations and give editor rights immediately. This > would not be good. > > 2. Allow free registration but in the creation email, make it clear > what the next step would bring, what sort of thing they should create, > how they are expected to behave, that they're members of the mailing > list (if required) etc - and who to ask for edit access should they > need it. And who else to ask if the first one doesn't respond. > > 3. Tie website login into email address and their mailman password. > Daily purges so anyone who unsubs from the list is removed from the > website. Probably doable but might be more work than anyone wants to > give, depending on how mailman stores its passwords. > > 4. Leave it as it is. (Hiss!) > > 5. Something else. Already proposed are some arcane git based backend > (even as a programmer myself, I would find this unneccessarily > complicated and another system to learn for what should be a basic and > easy process), a change of cms, html and probably somebody's thinking > about carving bits of stone and scanning them in. > OK I have added some content IRC commands page irc user list page I fixed the page I asked about earlier so can now add graphics to stories, I have asked a scratch user (not on list) to have a quick read of my article too, so it can go there and hopefully in a local community magazine. Its getting there, slowly but if we rush it will end up in a mess so we take our time, keep at it, and just add stuff as we get it. Paul -- -- http://drupal.zleap.net skype : psutton111 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 http://www.raspberrypi.org http://www.ubuntu.com -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq