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Re: Elections and Membership in ldraw.org
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lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw
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Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:37:16 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, Larry Pieniazek writes:
> Just to get people thinking, since maybe we're stuck... try this strawman
> 
> To be an ldraw.org member, you have to supply 3 things, all of which are
> retained in a DB for validation (but not made public)
> 1. your real name
> 2. a working email address
> 3. and any one of the following
>   - a LUGNET member number (which will be checked for uniqueness in the db)
>   - a FBTB userid (which will be checked as above)
>   - a BrickLink userid (as above)
>   - a BZPower userid (as above)
>   - N current members who will vouch for you that you are a real person
> (N=3 perhaps?)
>   - mail in something that establishes you are a real person. Perhaps mail
> in the letter that ldraw.org mails YOU? It gets shredded on return to ldraw.org
> 
> (that last one would be used only for extreme cases as one of the above
> would suit everyone, just about)

The above set sounds OK to me.

> How would that be? Who would be disenfranchised by that set? Or is even that
> set too tough? Should we just allow more or less anyone to vote, ala MoTM?

I think you've found a good balance by the set above. Todd has mentioned a
system for cross-checking IDs for uniqueness elsewhere in this thread, which
I think is important to be able to claim an off-site (non-LDraw.org) ID as
verification.

Everyone: Can we move forward based on this list above? I haven't seen any
serious objections, so I don't see why not. (if there are some and I missed
them, please point them out).

-Tim



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(...) look at Amy's post, and what she pointed out. For making sure each member is unique, the list (that I snipped) doesn't help. But I suggest we move on anyway, and just require a unique working email address for now. We can try to think of other (...) (24 years ago, 30-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: Elections and Membership in ldraw.org
 
(...) Just to get people thinking, since maybe we're stuck... try this strawman To be an ldraw.org member, you have to supply 3 things, all of which are retained in a DB for validation (but not made public) 1. your real name 2. a working email (...) (24 years ago, 28-Apr-03, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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