#4797 NORM Future : sharing is too easy and dangerous

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#4797: sharing is too easy and dangerous
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  Reporter:  AlbertCahalan     |       Owner:  Eben          
      Type:  enhancement       |      Status:  new           
  Priority:  normal            |   Milestone:  Future Release
 Component:  interface-design  |     Version:                
Resolution:                    |    Keywords:                
  Verified:  0                 |  
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Comment(by AlbertCahalan):

 Replying to [comment:4 Eben]:
 > Replying to [ticket:4797 AlbertCahalan]:

 > > There does not seem to be a decent way to stop sharing an activity.
 One must first shut down the activity, then delete the journal entry.
 >
 > This is a tricky issue indeed.  It was planned, though I'm not sure it's
 really going to happen or not.  In the attitude of equal sharing, there is
 no "owner" of an activity who would reserve the rights to change the
 scope.  Anyone can invite, anyone can share, etc.  We're leaving the
 details of trust up to social interactions rather than imposing technical
 limitations on who can do what.  This does mean, however, that reducing
 scope is a scary thing, since in the above model anyone would have power
 to do so.  While it seems alright, if quite liberal, to allow anyone to
 increase the sharing scope, allowing anyone to decrease it, which
 potentially excludes the creator, is a real problem.  We need to think
 more about how the collaboration is managed and how the scopes can be
 adjusted.

 Cutting off everybody else should be easy; it's like leaving the activity.

 That is a special case of splitting the group. Another special case is
 kicking out an undesired user. For general group splitting and for kicking
 out undesired users, there needs to be some way for participants to agree
 to leave as a group, atomically forming a new activity that isn't open for
 new people.

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