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Dennis HackethalOP revised 16 days ago·#2728
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Feature idea: private discussions only the creator and invited people can see. This could be a paid feature; $2 per discussion, say.

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 3 hours ago·#3071

What happens if you add a user to a private discussion, they submit a bunch of ideas, and then you remove them?

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 3 hours ago·#3072

There could be hard cutoff: they lose access to everything, including their own ideas in that discussion.

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 2 hours ago·#3079

But that sucks. Maybe someone works hard and submits a bunch of ideas only to lose access to them all.

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 2 hours ago·#3080

That risk could be clearly communicated in the UI.

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 2 hours ago·#3083

This functionality is pretty standard across apps. You can be removed from Discord servers, Telegram channels, etc without warning or reason at any time. People generally know and accept this. If they still put in effort, that’s on them.

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 2 hours ago·#3081

But then invitees might not put as much effort into those discussions.

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 2 hours ago·#3082

That depends on a bunch of factors, including their relationship with the discussion owner, into which Veritula has no visibility.

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 3 hours ago·#3073

They could keep access to their own ideas but not see others’.

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 3 hours ago·#3077

There’d probably be a bunch of edge cases with this approach. For example, others would still be able to comment on those ideas, and the comments would have to be hidden from OPs. Which begs the question of how that impacts the displayed criticism count… And so on.

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 3 hours ago·#3074

They could keep read-only access to the discussion but can’t add new ideas or change existing ideas.

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 2 hours ago·#3078

Maybe you remove them because you don’t even want them to be able to see anything.

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 3 hours ago·#3075

Permanent access: once added, you can’t remove them.

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Dennis HackethalOP, about 3 hours ago·#3076

If you later realize that adding someone was a mistake, you should be able to correct that mistake.

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