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Give validated OpenID account full site privileges
Short, concise description of the idea
Give OpenID accounts with a validated email address access to all site features including joining communities and posting to a journal.
Full description of the idea
This idea stems from the much simpler suggestion to
allow OpenID users to join/post in
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One of the easiest ways to implement this is to simply allow an OpenID to be associated with an existing account.
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Yes, but I think either would be equally easy. In fact, once you've done one, you've probably done the other. Associating an OpenID with an existing account is what Brad should've done in the first place IMHO. Though he was all taken with the idea of LJ being an OpenID provider because he wanted third-party sites be able to verify that you owned an LJ without having to have your LJ password.
This is when someone asked about something very similar a long time ago.
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Really, I just want OpenIDs to be able to join and post to communities, the rest is just icing on the cake for me.
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Every year I send them an anniversary email asking when they intend to do this.
Honestly I've given up on it, and evidently so has LJ. Their implementation of OpenID is still the most half-assed I've seen, yet they're the inventors of the technology and they're even trying to spread it to others despite not practicing what they preach.
At this point I'm almost on their side because they've let OpenID rot and it's still no closer to being a viable single-sign-on technology than it was when it was invented. There are plenty of design flaws in the protocol and it's ripe for one-stop-phishing. None of this is being addressed because there's no resources to do it.
So maybe it's actually to our advantage that LJ has neglected their own invention for three years and counting.
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The degree program that I finished several years back is restructuring and the interim head of the department asked for my help in setting up a mini-alumni association for graduates of the program. After tossing out ideas like e-mail lists, Yahoo groups, Facebook, Blogger, etc... we thought that LiveJurnal would suit the needs well: threaded conversations and OpenID logins were the two main perks.
So I went ahead and created u_of_i_lighting and am now waiting for my ex professor to create a LiveJournal account so I can make him a maintainer/moderator. That was the only downside that was discussed - that he, and anyone else he would like to post, must create a LiveJournal account. Despite the proliferation of identities that he already has, he needs yet another one to post to LiveJournal. If he wants to have a guest blogger they need to have a LiveJournal account ( ... )
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