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civictechdc / ancfinder

A website about DC's Advisory Neighborhood Commission system.
http://ancfinder.org/
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keep official and submitted information separate #138

Closed stvnrlly closed 5 years ago

stvnrlly commented 9 years ago

Right now, we keep one field for something like a commissioner's email. It might make more sense to keep official_email and submitted_email separate, so that there's always the supposedly-official option available in case the submitted information is faulty.

JoshData commented 9 years ago

This is a part of a broader issue of how to review submissions.

The db is set up like version control so we can always roll back. We could mark submissions as needs-approval so they don't go live until approved, or we could mark submissions as verified so we have safe points to roll-back to as needed.

stvnrlly commented 9 years ago

I don't want to require review for 2 main reasons: (1) I'm not sure how we'd verify things, and (2) it requires time and effort. What's the downside of providing both the official and submitted information?

If we do need to do some sort of verification, a complicated but more hands-off approach could be to implement a reputation system for users.