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Re: Allow Public FTX Pages
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lugnet.admin.suggestions
Date: 
Wed, 10 Apr 2002 21:07:45 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.suggestions, William R. Ward writes:
"Steve Bliss" <partsref@yahoo.com> writes:

I don't *think* this one has been suggested yet.

I'd like to be able to set _some_ of my FTX pages so that any member may
edit them.

The example which prompted this thought is a page I just made,
<http://www.lugnet.com/cad/~699/swminifigs/>.  I did not spend a lot of time
researching the information on this page.  I *know* it is incomplete, and I
assume it has one or more errors.  Frankly, if someone comes along who spots
an error, or wants to fill in the missing information, or add images, or
links or whatever, I'd be more than happy if they could edit the contents
themselves.

I think this opens a can of worms and is a bad idea.  It would allow a
user with few scruples and an axe to grind access to modifying or even
deleting your web page in a way that you might not like.

True.  There would need to be some sort of way of the owner (or a content
administrator) managing that page data, and archiving old data so it isn't
totally lost.

Why not link your page to a thread in the news server, and say that if
anyone has any updates they should post in that thread.

Or, setting permissions?  Maybe these member numbers have permission to
modify the page.  Or maybe on the creator's account is stored all the
previous versious of the page.  So if the page gets messed up, they can
always go back and restore it.  I think Steve's idea is good, it would just
have to get fleshed out to prevent or deter abuse.

-Tim



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  Re: Allow Public FTX Pages
 
(...) I may be misremembering but I thought there WAS a way to go back to previous page versions. See: (URL) the FTX guide. There is.... See also question 10 from the overall FTX FAQ which alludes to some potential future capability to allow (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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  Re: Allow Public FTX Pages
 
(...) I think this opens a can of worms and is a bad idea. It would allow a user with few scruples and an axe to grind access to modifying or even deleting your web page in a way that you might not like. Why not link your page to a thread in the (...) (23 years ago, 10-Apr-02, to lugnet.admin.suggestions)

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