[OWW-SC] Fwd: [Oww-Feedback] Feedback Message (from Dr Alejo Corrales)

[Julius B. Lucks]

This is a very reasonable policy to try out at first.

Julius

Please Reply to julius at younglucks.com

On Jan 19, 2008, at 9:12 AM, "Reshma Shetty" <rshetty at mit.edu> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> In response to Tom's suggestion, I've updated the OWW disclaime
> http://openwetware.org/wiki/OpenWetWare:General_disclaimer
> Please feel free to amend.
>
> I think the mechanism for easier feedback to OWW is great.  (Props  
> to Julius for suggesting it and Bill for deploying it so quickly).   
> But I do agree with Jason that OWW should not provide a general  
> mechanism for people without OWW accounts to contact OWW members.  I  
> think OWW users, specifically occasional users, could become quickly  
> turned off by a site that enabled them to get spammed.  Especially  
> since people are probably likely to use their "real" email address  
> to register with OWW rather than their "spam" webmail address.
>
> I'm also pretty wary of allowing anonymous posts to user talk  
> pages.  I think it just invites wiki spam and most OWW users  
> including myself don't want to have to deal with clearing spam even  
> from just their user talk page.  (Based on wikiomics' experience, it  
> can be pretty easy for the spam engines to bury pages in links to  
> britney spears pics.)
>
> Personally, I'd prefer to continue with the feedback system as an  
> email form which anyone can use.  We can relay messages to the  
> intended recipient as needed.  If this option becomes untenable  
> (i.e. a flood of messages not re OWW but re individual pages), then  
> we can reassess.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Reshma
>
> On Jan 18, 2008 10:11 PM, Jason Kelly <jasonk at mit.edu> wrote:
> I think we might want to tread carefully on this one.  i assume this
> researcher's (Dr. Berglund) contact info is available through his
> school somehow...could suggest the person who emailed check there.
>
> i wouldn't recommend to the person who emailed that he get an OWW
> account and then start posting on talk pages or anything.  we need to
> be a little protective of community, i think.  This guy isn't a
> biologist or biological engineer doing research -- he's looking for
> medical advice.  And there are much better places for him to find
> that.
>
> Austin, I'm against the email form for users.  If someone wants to get
> random emails, they'll post their contact info.  We already allow
> within-OWW form emailing, which I think covers most bases.  Having a
> pre-requisite of signing up to OWW being that everyone on the internet
> gets to know your email address (even if it's through a form) is too
> much to ask, IMO.
>
> thanks,
> jason
>
> On Jan 18, 2008 9:56 PM,  <julius at younglucks.com> wrote:
> > What about the content of emails being sent to the user talk page
> > instead of emailing them?  Either way, we may run into a spam issue.
> > We also might allow anyone to edit a user talk page for messaging as
> > an alternative.
> >
> > In any case, I will email the 1st feedback user with instructions on
> > how to contact an individual user.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Julius
> >
> >
> > Quoting Austin Che < austin at csail.mit.edu>:
> >
> > >
> > >     I think we need a way for anyone to email someone on the  
> wiki. For
> > >     example, make this work for non-logged in users.
> > >     http://openwetware.org/wiki/Special:Emailuser/Austin_J._Che
> > >
> > >     Or allow the creation of the feedback forms that send to  
> arbitrary
> > >     email addresses from the wiki.
> > >
> > >     Looking around the Berglund lab page, I couldn't find any  
> other
> > >     way of contacting them.
> > >
> > >> Apparently we need a statement similar to this one in the  
> Pubmed FAQ:
> > >> http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query/static/faq.html
> > >>
> > >> On Jan 18, 2008, at 6:46 PM, Bill F wrote:
> > >>
> > >> We have our first feedback message. I can't figure out what to  
> do with
> > >> it so you folks can decide.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Austin Che           < austin at csail.mit.edu>          (617) 
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