Hello, I'm wondering if there are any policies / systems / plans for helping people submit other peoples files?...
I'm just thinking -- I would love to help fill out the download offerings here, and I'm sure other curator types would too. So I'm asking myself, what's stopping me?
I think it makes me uncomfortable that the website design gives the uploader all the credit and permanent control over the file... and so I end up not doing any uploading, because it feels like a weird theft.
Some suggestions to try to do this ethically --
- enable a separate "author" override field to the file upload submission form, and if defined, then highlight that instead of the uploader
- have a process / policy to let an author request control of their own file if they wish? (and/or have a policy / process to let people ask an admin to remove their file if they didn't want it uploaded)
What do we think + are there any changes or systems like this planned?
I'm just thinking -- I would love to help fill out the download offerings here, and I'm sure other curator types would too. So I'm asking myself, what's stopping me?
I think it makes me uncomfortable that the website design gives the uploader all the credit and permanent control over the file... and so I end up not doing any uploading, because it feels like a weird theft.
Some suggestions to try to do this ethically --
- enable a separate "author" override field to the file upload submission form, and if defined, then highlight that instead of the uploader
- have a process / policy to let an author request control of their own file if they wish? (and/or have a policy / process to let people ask an admin to remove their file if they didn't want it uploaded)
What do we think + are there any changes or systems like this planned?