#11 Author Stuff

[Susan Douglas]

I haven't looked at the code too much yet so I don't know how hard this would be.

To add to a story, you need to be an author.

To become an author, you need to sign up with a valid email. A further option would be that the Admin has to approve it.

You can set your preferences (ie signature, mailto, etc) and it will remember them so you don't have to add it everytime you add an episode.

Then editing your own episodes would be easy.

Susan
Willing to work on these

[Jeffrey J. Weston]

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Other ideas to consider for this feature, based upon
discussion in the Sir-Toby.Com Extend-A-Story forum:

Crimson writes:
I personally like to see author registeration feature to
make sure the story doesn't go crazy. Banning the crazy
authors while keeping the sane ones.

Sir Toby writes:
That is something I've thought about. I was under the
impression here that some people liked being able to remain
anonymous while writing, and would object to being forced to
register in order to write. I am also thinking about making
registering optional. You would still be able to write
anonymously. However, if you were to register, you would
have better ability to edit episodes you have written, such
as not being restricted to only editing the episodes from
the computer you created them.

JoshB writes:
I could see advantages of doing this. I have seen in the
past when somebody has written an episode and using my name
to make it look like I wrote it.

Well, if the registration is set up correctly, we can either
find out who actualy wrote it (heh) or if the episode was
written by an intentionally unregistered user, I would be
able to have editing powers. Thus I would be able to go in
and change it or delete the submitted episode. However, this
might not work if my name gets mispelled (well I can
register both with my last name spelled correctly and the
popular misspelling of my last name).

[Jeffrey J. Weston]

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-I haven't looked at the code too much yet so I don't know how hard 
-this would be.
+I haven't looked at the code too much yet so I don't know how hard this would be.

 To add to a story, you need to be an author.

-To become an author, you need to sign up with a valid email.  A 
-further option would be that the Admin has to approve it.
+To become an author, you need to sign up with a valid email.  A further option would be that the Admin has to approve it.

-You can set your preferences \(ie signature, mailto, etc\) and it will 
-remember them so you don't have to add it everytime you add an 
-episode.
+You can set your preferences \(ie signature, mailto, etc\) and it will remember them so you don't have to add it everytime you add an episode.

 Then editing your own episodes would be easy.

• status: open --> Open
• milestone: --> None
• resolution: --> None