Custom journal-type icons for OpenID users from known sources

[garnetdagger]

Title
Custom journal-type icons for OpenID users from known sources

Short, concise description of the idea
For OpenID users from sites LiveJournal is aware of, use that site's user-head icon instead of the OpenID logo.

Full description of the ideaOpenID users, instead of the little head to the left of their username, have the OpenID logo

Comments

[gerg]

I don't support this; OpenID users aren't LiveJournal users and giving them custom userheads would likely confuse users even more. Further, what if I run offensivejournalsite.com and I want to make my userhead an icon that would not be appropriate for LiveJournal? The first thing I'm going to do is screech about favoritism and lack of opportunity and etc etc etc COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM when whoever (Support, staff, ec.) tell me no.

Since we likely can't come up with a policy that addresses these things fairly, I would want all OpenID users to continue to be identified with the same icon, so that I'm always aware that they're OpenID users and don't have to figure out what the userhead is for $offsite_site_of_the_week_where_everyone_still_uses_LJ.

[fiddlingfrog]

OpenID users aren't LiveJournal users
Anyone who has logged into LiveJournal with an OpenID is a LiveJournal user, they simply aren't providing a password to LJ (and are treated as second-class users because of it).

Besides, it looks like a partial implementation of this idea was started back in October: http://community.livejournal.com/changelog/7741166.html

While ordinary users get this:

[gerg]

No, they aren't. They don't have journals, they don't have a lot of the features that regular users have, and they are a unique thing that needs, IMO, a unique userhead.

[fiddlingfrog]

So what if they don't have journals? Does a regular account user who doesn't post but only comments need to have a separate userhead?
OpenID accounts are unique only because LJ decided to make them unique. Using the fact that they are unique as justification to prevent adding further features to the account type is circular logic.

+1

[fiddlingfrog]