Idea: Allow users to include their contact info in their profiles
Steve Phillips / @elimisteve
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Seen by 108
We can get into specifics in a proposal, but the idea is that, right now, it's hard to send someone a message or "friend" them through Loomio; there's no private messaging (can't chat, nor ask for contact info), and we can't find each other on other sites because we don't know each other's usernames!
This would arguably also make it unnecessary for private messaging to be implemented on Loomio; users can contact each other some other way... but only if they can trade contact info.
It's important for users to be able to control the privacy permissions/visibility of their data, but again, we can save those specifics for a particular proposal.
Matthew Bartlett
Wed 3 Dec 2014 9:03PM
This is a good idea and I've voted it up in the roadmap
Clark Davison
Wed 3 Dec 2014 9:53PM
Communication between members is important particularly if the discussion is not related to the group or discussion directly.
Julian Dumitrascu
Thu 4 Dec 2014 4:20PM
You can find my contact data via my Loomio profile.
Daniel Nephin
Thu 4 Dec 2014 5:06PM
I think it would be ok for a user to optional make the information public, but I agree the option to hide it and require consent is a good idea.
Benjamin Knight
Fri 5 Dec 2014 1:24PM
makes lots of sense to me!
Poll Created Tue 2 Dec 2014 5:20PM
Allow users to include in their profiles (at least) their email address, Twitter username, and a custom URL (website, blog, etc) Closed Fri 5 Dec 2014 5:04PM
The profile would only be visible to other Loomio users, and would absolutely NOT be public by default! And NONE of this info would be required.
Results
| Results | Option | % of points | Voters | |
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Agree | 100.0% | 13 |
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| Abstain | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Disagree | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Block | 0.0% | 0 | ||
| Undecided | 0% | 262 |
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13 of 275 people have participated (4%)
Steve Phillips / @elimisteve
Tue 2 Dec 2014 5:22PM
If democracy is going to flourish, we need the ability to connect with each other.
Steve Phillips / @elimisteve
Tue 2 Dec 2014 5:23PM
We need the ability to (optionally) connect with each other and make friends outside of Loomio, and this seems like the best, simplest, and most universally-useful way to achieve this.
Sir Wumpus
Tue 2 Dec 2014 5:24PM
A simple, optional, arbitrary text field could serve this purpose -- people could put contact info in there if they wanted, and not if they didn't.
Greg Cassel
Tue 2 Dec 2014 5:28PM
If it's done, I would prefer a simple single data entry field, where someone could put multiple links if they personally desired.