Idea: Allow users to include their contact info in their profiles
Steve Phillips / @elimisteve
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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.
Steve Phillips / @elimisteve Tue 2 Dec 2014 5:16PM
@christaklis The privacy risks are only proportional to what people put in their profile, which could be as minimalist as Twitter's.
I'd like to be able to link people to my personal homepage, Twitter feed, and GitHub page. It wouldn't have to be a completely public profile, either.
What do you think of the profile only being visible to other Loomio users, or some other privacy-enhancing restriction?
Steve Phillips / @elimisteve Tue 2 Dec 2014 5:17PM
@christaklis If you don't want people knowing your phone number, don't put it in your profile :-).
Steve Phillips / @elimisteve Tue 2 Dec 2014 5:18PM
@christaklis If you'd prefer private messaging between users, see this discussion on exactly that: https://www.loomio.org/d/Vln2MwPC
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.
Alanna Irving
Tue 2 Dec 2014 6:04PM
Text field for profiles is already in the backlog: https://trello.com/c/qlqkI6vS
Chris Taklis · Tue 2 Dec 2014 5:10PM
i think it has many privacy risks that proposal.
It's not that you share your info with friends but with whole community/group which maybe you don't know anyone.
I think it's much safer person-to-person messaging system through loomio without contact informations are available as telephone or email.