^ this is also a good point that hasn't been addressed before now
LFGSS itself is a mature community - other communities that migrate here may also be mature. How many people are going to be happy at the thought that a forum where they thought they had a degree of privacy is suddenly going to turn into a forum where they have none?
Eh? What? It's a bad point... as it creates an idea of a collective work (which is what a community is, it's what a conversation with many participants is) and tries to apply many instances of individual control over it.
It's confusing, illogical, and tries to enforce broken ideas from social networks onto forums.
The privacy/permissions of a forum have always been at the scope of the forum in which you participate. Not the site... but the forum itself... forum67.html for example.
All of that still exists, will still exist, and if anything has become far more clear and strictly enforced.
Eh? What? It's a bad point... as it creates an idea of a collective work (which is what a community is, it's what a conversation with many participants is) and tries to apply many instances of individual control over it.
It's confusing, illogical, and tries to enforce broken ideas from social networks onto forums.
The privacy/permissions of a forum have always been at the scope of the forum in which you participate. Not the site... but the forum itself... forum67.html for example.
All of that still exists, will still exist, and if anything has become far more clear and strictly enforced.