[UPHPU] new UPHPU site

[Lamont R. Peterson]

On Wednesday 06 September 2006 12:19am, Wade Preston Shearer wrote:
> > I really like the picture directory page idea - I too like to remember
> > people at meetings and need the directory to help.   I even thought
> > the
> > Utah Planet Open Source picture of the guy in shades was a real
> > person :)

He is!  Just not someone you really want to know, personally. :)

> k… I'll see what I can do.

In addition to a separate directory (I'm envisioning a contact list, with 
photos?), you could also use the/a photo to "decorate" posts written by 
registered members, that way, the face and name go together with the writting 
(like on a Planet) and help us all correlate names with faces much more 
quickly.

I think I remember there being a WordPress plugin to do just that, but I'm not 
sure.

> > Maybe I don't understand the reason, but why are user accounts
> > needed at
> > all?
>
> My point exactly. They only value that I see in them is to control
> who can comment.

It's not just that, but also to control who can post.  Your account is used to 
identify who authored an article or a page, as well as for comments.  For 
example, registered, approved users can comment without moderation, but all 
other commenters could be moderated.

An account isn't required to be able to "control" comments, but it will take 
some load of of those who have to deal with moderating.
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