User Administration

part of the ArsDigita Community System by Philip Greenspun

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In /admin/users/, as elsewhere in the ACS, we try to follow the Macintosh user interface style:

• pick the object, then
• pick the verb

So we want to help the publisher pick up a group of users (the object) and then pick something to do with those users (the verb). Here's an example:

"I am interested in users whose email address ends in "mit.edu" and who've either posted at least one entry in the last six months into a particular discussion forum or who have explicitly said that they're interested in learning more about large format photography. Once I've seen how many there are, I would like to spam them."

As different installations of the ACS will have different active modules and different publisher interest, we actually need a way for a publisher to formally specify "these are the kinds of ways I'd like to select out users".

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philg@mit.edu