convore.json/groups/feedback/posting-without-joining/messages.json

[{"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296457599.8056171, "message": "I noticed that you can post in a group without actually joining it. Is that a bug? It feels like unexpected behavior, but perhaps decoupling the idea of joining vs. posting has advantages", "group_id": 88, "id": 39577}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [{"date_created": 1296493329.7186, "user_id": 224}], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296462863.4590931, "message": "This is a design decision.  We want people to be able to participate in single topics if they want to, but not necessarily get notifications and emails and updates for other topics in the same group.", "group_id": 88, "id": 39709}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [{"date_created": 1296493328.6449029, "user_id": 224}], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296462890.374058, "message": "So for public groups, we let you participate without being a member.", "group_id": 88, "id": 39710}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296493324.823761, "message": "Makes sense", "group_id": 88, "id": 39769}, {"user_id": 2, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296501964.227469, "message": "I kind of feel like if you post to the group, you should be a member...", "group_id": 88, "id": 39914}, {"user_id": 2, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296501927.1854489, "message": "it's still confusing to be \"in\" a group but not a member", "group_id": 88, "id": 39910}, {"user_id": 2, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296501929.0650361, "message": "it's weird", "group_id": 88, "id": 39911}, {"user_id": 2, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296501937.1719501, "message": "I'm not sure that I like it", "group_id": 88, "id": 39912}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296501961.6339149, "message": "We just need to show some copy, like \"you're a guest in this group\" or something, that makes it clear.", "group_id": 88, "id": 39913}, {"user_id": 2, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296501973.4329469, "message": "yeah, \"guest\" would be okay", "group_id": 88, "id": 39915}, {"user_id": 2, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296502013.7933991, "message": "maybe guests could go in a \"Guests online now\" section?", "group_id": 88, "id": 39918}, {"user_id": 2, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296501737.683841, "message": "yeah, I think that's still a bit confusing", "group_id": 88, "id": 39894}, {"user_id": 2, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296501751.937242, "message": "but it makes sense that you might not want to get notifications from every group", "group_id": 88, "id": 39895}, {"user_id": 2, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296501760.248872, "message": "however, I tend to join all the groups I look at", "group_id": 88, "id": 39897}, {"user_id": 2, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296501776.3940849, "message": "and just ignore the extra unread counts :D", "group_id": 88, "id": 39899}, {"user_id": 224, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296501805.820796, "message": "Yeah, I think part of my confusion was coming from TypePad Motion, where joining was a more serious event, since you were giving a group permission to do stuff with an account", "group_id": 88, "id": 39903}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296502095.679373, "message": "Interesting...there would be a decent bit of implementation detail trickiness on that end, but I'm not totally opposed", "group_id": 88, "id": 39920}, {"user_id": 2, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296501983.271755, "message": "that makes more sense", "group_id": 88, "id": 39916}, {"user_id": 1, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296501987.197129, "message": "i.e. I liked the emacs group for one topic, but I don't use emacs, so I don't want every topic to notify me", "group_id": 88, "id": 39917}, {"user_id": 2, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296502030.921829, "message": "that was the confusing thing for me... that members and guests were both \"Members online now\"", "group_id": 88, "id": 39919}, {"user_id": 2, "stars": [], "topic_id": 1503, "date_created": 1296502983.5139711, "message": "I don't think it's super high priority... but something to think about", "group_id": 88, "id": 39930}]