vanity fair
is there a way to link to a list of all stories created by a particular user, or of all comments posted by a particular user? For instance: how can I create a link to all my incredible photos at alo or mks? Or to all those unbearably witty comments I post to Mr. gHack's unbelievably inspiring stories?
hns
No, you can't do this with antville today, but it's a very interesting idea. I've come to think about something like this myself three times over the last days:
Which means this is something I'm likely to follow up.
esel
yo!
(if you ever read this... >;e)
katatonik
thanks! 'tis true, comment notification would also be a good idea.
bov
"a blog of my posts on various antville blogs": nomadic blogging? great idea.
katatonik
Here's another thought. Assume it would be possible for *anyone* to link to a list of all my antville posts. Somehow I wouldn't like that - it's too transparent, perhaps I wouldn't want everyone to be able to trace all my various droppings of verbiage here and there in the huge antville world. Or at least I'd like to know. And I definitely wouldn't want some impostor named katapfonik secretly build a blog with all my antville postings under his or her name!
But how to restrict this? Perhaps allow registered antville users to specifc URLs from which such "post lists", or the individual entries, can be called? Like: katatonik can specify malorama as a site from where a call for her antville comment list can be issued. If anyone else tries the same call - send them a nice error-message and tell them, if they want to trace me, they'd have to ask for my permission first ...
as I said, just another thought.
tobi Verwaltung
+1 this should go into antville code.
nosleep
Why don't you subscribe to that particular blog? As said before that is a big privacy issue, because only the author, the other posters and nobody else should know which blogs I or somebodyelse reads. If you really start to implment this you propably qualify for an big brother award.
A solution is to add a switch to the profile which states:
[ ] Privacy is not of concern for me, I have nothing ot hide
and is off by default.
nex
it's already possible to get all online/public stories a particular user wrote. say you're google, download the whole site, search it. making this procedure much more convenient and much less of a strain for the antville server doesn't quite deserve a big brother award, or does it?
the text of your option doesn't hit the spot: if you really have something to hide, the absence of this feature won't protect you at all.
bov
That's absolutely right. nosleep, you may take a glance at these google-results.
So, there already is something quite near to the proposed feature. Nevertheless: making it an "opt-in-feature" would be a good solution as well. (Opt-in for this very feature, of course, not for such an undefined thing as "privacy".)