User tag should allow Twitter as an option

[eleanorjane]

Title:
User tag should allow Twitter as an option

Area:
DW-specific HTML Markup

Summary:
The user DW tag will work with a number of external sites, mostly LJ-based sites, plus AO3. Given the popularity of Twitter we could add Twitter to the list, with a service-appropriate icon.

Description:
A lot of fans use Twitter, and at least some of us would find it pleasing to be able to link to our Twitter accounts the way we do to our AO3/LJ/DJ/IJ accounts, with the matching service icon and so on.

The advantage of this is visual consistency, especially for posts with a laundry list of "here's how to contact me" options. I can't think of any particular drawbacks, other than perhaps a small additional load on the server by adding another icon that has to be served whenever twitter accounts are linked in this way.

Poll #5129 User tag should allow Twitter as an option

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 68

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Should be implemented as-is.
47 (69.1%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (1.5%)

(I have no opinion)
20 (29.4%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Semi-emergency posting rights to other users to personal account.

[pseudomonas]

Title:
Semi-emergency posting rights to other users to personal account.

Area:
posting

Summary:
I'd like to grant certain (trusted) DW users post-only access to my personal account for use in situations when I'm not easily able to post.

Description:
I have this occasional habit of going into hospital at short notice, where I may not have mobile signal or internet access, but very much want to get news to my circle explaining my situation.

I'd like to give a small number of DW (perhaps also OpenID) users rights to post to my personal DW account. I envisage that this could also be useful if I were incapacitated, arrested, or just travelling somewhere remote.

Ideally this would work very much like post-by-email - the users would:

a) be able to make posts, which would be made with privacy/crossposting settings I'd defined in advance.

b) be identified prominently at the bottom of each post ("posted by <user name=whoever> on behalf of <user name=pseudomonas>")

c) *not* have access to change settings, post comments or anything else in my name, read filters they'd not normally be allowed to read, or edit any posts. (That's already doable by giving them my DW password)

d) have an email go to me with post content and IP address, Just In Case someone's compromised their account.

This could also be accomplished by setting up post-by-mail and giving people the mail password PIN, but this would lack the footers, be not doable for many email addresses, and possibly be difficult for less-technical trusted users.

It could also be done by giving people your DW password, but I would rather not do that, personally.

The drawbacks would mainly be people potentially posting things the user didn't want them to, but since they wouldn't be able to impersonate anyone and the user would be getting notification emails, the practical-joke potential is rather limited. Any potential abuse is a social problem rather than a technical one.

Poll #5130 Semi-emergency posting rights to other users to personal account.

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 75

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Should be implemented as-is.
32 (42.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
7 (9.3%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
18 (24.0%)

(I have no opinion)
18 (24.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)