Comments for page "2 - Watchers module"

Re: No watching by default, please

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 04:28:45 +0000

@ leiger: That would be the ideal solution. See, a site is like an MA's kid. Although one's best friends may be willing to look after the little brats every now and then, they don't want to know every single detail about their lives — every diaper change, every booger clean-up, etc.

Now, seriously, I want to be able to assign specific responsibilities to different admins, having them looking after a specific category, for instance. That's what they may be willing to watch, if they want so.

@ pieter: For what types of sites do you envision watching as being necessarily automatic?

Re: No watching by default, please

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 02:40:43 +0000

Just make the MA auto-watch a site, and everyone else has to explicitly click on the link at the bottom of the page. That means making the default user settings to not auto-watch sites that they become members of (but do watch pages that they create or edit)

Re: No watching by default, please

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 13:15:01 +0000

Hmm. For some sites it must definitely be automatic. So we need admin of watching… I did not want that but it seems unavoidable.

Re: No watching by default, please

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:51:48 +0000

By the way, "etnolinguistica" is just me, "kawina"; signed up with the wrong ID…

No watching by default, please

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:20:45 +0000

It should be up to the admins of individual sites to decide whether a category should be watchable, and by whom; and it should be up to a member to decide wheter he/she wants to watch a page/category/site or not, no matter what his/her status is in the site.

Turning on watching by default is unnecessarily authoritarian, IMHO, and even rude. I'm refraining from inviting new members to any of my sites until this issue is resolved.

Re:

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:36:01 +0000

As far as I know, yes, this is set on by default. I think this option is confusing, see my proposal for simplifying and extending the configuration page.

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Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:27:34 +0000

Is that set by default on new accounts?

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Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:27:11 +0000

Yup. In account settings, Auto-watch sites I create or join, pages I create, edit or comment.

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Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:22:20 +0000

All I know is that if you create a new site this appears at the bottom:

Start watching: site blank-template.wikidot.com | category _default | this page [?]

i.e. not watching anything yet.

Though there might be a setting in the user profile that you have enabled (and I have it disabled) that makes you automatically watch any sites you create?

(no title)

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:04:03 +0000

Strange. I just tested this on a new site (http://blank-template.wikidot.com) and am immediately a watcher, as was the case for all other sites I'm admin of. Actually, I added a Watchers module before checking the bottom of the page. Maybe that has a side-effect?

(no title)

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 10:09:09 +0000

These are the cases where users are automatically subscribed, and how it works:

* Site owners, admins and mods: all traffic on the whole site.

Actually, this is incorrect.

To replicate the situation:

Create a new site
Have a look at the bottom & you will notice that you are not automatically watching the site, you need to do it manually

Personally, I prefer it this way (how it is already), but automatic-watching for site creator could have its advantages…