[development] Re: [Drupal feature] Personal Contact SELECTED BY DEFAULT, even MANDATED

[Steve Dondley]

I helped write a patch that already addresses this and it has been
committed to the head: http://drupal.org/node/41352

On 6/1/06, pwolanin <development at drupal.org> wrote:
> Issue status update for
> http://drupal.org/node/66648
> Post a follow up:
> http://drupal.org/project/comments/add/66648
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>  Project:      Drupal
>  Version:      cvs
>  Component:    contact.module
>  Category:     feature requests
>  Priority:     normal
>  Assigned to:  Anonymous
>  Reported by:  iandickson
>  Updated by:   pwolanin
>  Status:       active
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> Yes, I agree.  I think people joining a site are already opting in, so
> it makes more sense to have this on by default.  I'd almost categorize
> this as a bug and push for inclusion in 4.7.2...
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> pwolanin
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> Previous comments:
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> Thu, 01 Jun 2006 06:55:01 +0000 : iandickson
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> In community projects it is often the case that members are not really
> up for reading everything carefully. Upshot - they miss the box and
> wonder why no one contacts them..., so I'd like to be able to set
> Personal Contact ON by Default. (User can disable if they wish).
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> I'd also like an option to MANDATE it so it can't be disabled by user,
> (People get annoyed if they can't contact a provocative poster).
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> Note - I went looking for this and found threads in which people who
> needed this function had posted mod hacks to do it. Which I won't use -
> too hairy - but shows how important it is.
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> General Comment - this is a Usability Issue - a key role of Admin
> should be to ensure that member defaults are designed to minimise the
> work that work that members need to do, so any check box that it is
> expected peoiple will tick, should be defaultable ticked.
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