* is this person allowed to be a user on my site? -- site owner and delegates (let's just assume that for any role there is a revocable delegation power) * does this group appear on my site? -- site owner * is this site allowed to send my site articles? -- site owner * how discoverable is this group? -- group owner * who can read/join this group? -- group owner * who can post on this group? -- group owner * who can create a new group? -- ?? * what prevents group names from colliding -- ?? * what groups do I read? -- user, picking from those available on this site * what groups do I not read? -- user * what users do I not see? -- user * what topics/keywords/scores in a group do I not see? -- user
Users need easy to use but powerful scoring systems to build killfiles.
Group ownership needs to be divorced from being at a particular site.
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* is this person allowed to be a user on my site? -- site owner and delegates (let's just assume that for any role there is a revocable delegation power)
* does this group appear on my site? -- site owner
* is this site allowed to send my site articles? -- site owner
* how discoverable is this group? -- group owner
* who can read/join this group? -- group owner
* who can post on this group? -- group owner
* who can create a new group? -- ??
* what prevents group names from colliding -- ??
* what groups do I read? -- user, picking from those available on this site
* what groups do I not read? -- user
* what users do I not see? -- user
* what topics/keywords/scores in a group do I not see? -- user
Users need easy to use but powerful scoring systems to build killfiles.
Group ownership needs to be divorced from being at a particular site.