Imagine that Dave starts using a new web app.
Imagine, then, that the app starts publishing a list of all of the new users with links to their online identities.
Imagine that this is an “opt out” situation.
What’s the over/under on the number of web-tantrums Dave would throw?
Dave made a change to FlickrFan (probably sent out via the mandatory phone-home autoupdater) in which the flickr account names to all new users to the software are published online. Long-time readers who know that that Dave is a “do as I say, not as I do” kinda guy will guess that this new “feature” is… SURPRISE… opt-out.
What’s more, when questioned about it, here’s what he says:
Since we’re still in the first 24 hours, the culture of this community is still to be determined.
It’s going to be a fairly open community thing, that’s what I hope to telegraph from this. Have the discussion now, as opposed to later.
To the other poster, of course I was following the Facebook stuff, and if you go back through the archive of Scripting News you’ll find that I wasn’t terribly critical of what they were doing because I understood the issues and tradeoffs.
Let’s deconstruct that, shall we?