Importing to a community

[eosrose]

Title:
Importing to a community

Area:
importer, communities

Summary:
In many cases individuals create personal communities closed to posting from visitors in order to house their creative works (or for similar reasons). These individuals should also be able to import their works.

Description:
The idea of importing whole communities with open membership sounds quite daunting for the very reasons mentioned in the FAQ--the admin does not always own the content of that community. And, unfortunately, I can't see how DW could possibly code things in such a way as to allow communities with posting access limited solely to the owner/admin to be an exception to the general rule at this time. So while I look forward to the day when communities can be imported by admins in the same way as personal journals, that is not what I am trying to propose here.

What interests me is the potential for an admin to import content from a personal journal hosted on another LJ-based service (or even from one hosted on DW). This, I think, would be most useful after the suggestion that content be imported according to tag be put into place, though I can see a potential for usefulness before that, too.

There is potential for abuse here, make no mistake, but admins always have the power to cause trouble when it comes to the communities they control.

The goal of this suggestion is to make life easier for people who want to start keep personal communities, but haven't yet. This particular feature probably wouldn't help those who already have personal communities and it wouldn't help maintainers of open communities.

An alternative might be to allow personal journals on DW to be converted to communities without deleting entries. Once the journal becomes a community, importing no longer becomes possible, which might help with some of the potential for abuse. (Though this idea wouldn't do me much good, since I already created my community and I think reverse conversion is impossible for good reason. ;_;)

Poll #3688 Importing to a community

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 32

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Should be implemented as-is.
17 (53.1%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (3.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
1 (3.1%)

(I have no opinion)
13 (40.6%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)