Wouldn't it be great if good Page Managers could have more power in fixing problems etc on their managed pages? Could this be implemented?

I totally agree! I opened up all of my pages last week (while logged out), so that I could see the ads, and there is only one ad on the pages, and most of the time the ad isn't relevant to the content on the page. And it would be extremely time consuming to contact the VM on every single one of my pages to ask them to fix and add additional ads to the pages.

I know they have a lot of pages, but isn't this something they're supposed to be doing anyway? I really wish that we could just do this ourselves. Maybe not for new page managers, but for those of us who have proven our ability to create and manage our pages, we should be given this ability.

*****EDIT**** Just went back to check a bunch of my pages, and looks like a lot of them have more than one ad on them now. Someone must have been hard at work doing updates since last week. But it still would be nice to do this myself whenever I notice it.

:).

You know, this is a growing problem for VM's too. Recently, Mahalo changed the way that their permissions work and as a result, the system as a whole feels more limiting then ever. Generally, there are two ways to program access control lists called limitless and limited systems.

First, you can create a free an open system based generally on "open or closed" access. In short, this type of system opens all functionality for some users while to other users, the system is closed. So far, we've enjoyed (pretty well) an open system where the functionality was only closed to people who were not logged in.

The second type of system based on definitions of abilities and defining groups of people who can do certain things. In this limited system, a System Analyst must very carefully plot out exactly what roles people have and how those roles effect the system as a whole. This is a much more complicated method when compared to the first, but it adds security and value in the roles that people hold.

Mahalo has slowly been transitioning from a limitless system into a limited system and we're seeing the growing pains that this change is causing. I'm not sure if Mahalo has an experienced System Analyst on staff, but if they do, I'm sure that this person (or people) are the architects designing a safe and secure system. In my mind, Mahalo has a group of trusted users.

Some of these people are VM's some of them are PM's and some of them are neither (they just participate in Answers). From what I've seen, I don't know if Mahalo needs to have a limited access system. If the system was left open, would the community truly be able to create and offload labor?

Right now, both PM's and VM's are being molded into a simple extension of staff who are limited by what staff expects them to do. Would an open system with no functional rules (only editorial ones) hurt Mahalo?

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