[Typo3-dev] the horror of different usertables

[Elmar Hinz]

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> This is an example far beyond reality!
> In a school with about 1000 pupils and 50 teachers you will never have 1050
> BE users since most of the teachers and/or the pupils won't be able or might
> be just too lazy to spend time with editing pages. It's just a matter of
> fact that only a hard core of about 10 or 20 people will do real work on a
> schools website. Usually they will form a special study group
> (Arbeitsgemeinschaft) for this job and only members of this group will need
> BE-access. And I don't see why you would need FE-users at all. Usually my
> grandma (if she would be able to use the internet) could visit my schools
> website without any login or password since they don't handle secret
> material that could have an impact on national security there. I don't know
> how this stuff is managed at other school projects but I guess the number of
> users with a name and a password (no matter if BE or FE) in most cases is
> much lesser than in your horror-scenario.
> 
> And BTW: People who don't understand the difference between BE and FE-users
> will never become a BE-user as long as I administer their site ;-)
> ... and this is another good reason to keep them the way it is done in typo3
> right now: to separate the wheat from the chaff
> Just kidding - read too much "bastard operator from hell"
> 
> Joey
> 
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Lets turn it upside down. If you make it such difficult and complicated to 
become an editor as you mention, if people first have to accept that their 
identy has to be split into a FE and a BE user, if they first have to join a 
special study workgroup, are you really surprised then, that only 10 or 20 of 
1000 are motivated to edit your site?

I bet 90% percent of them have learned how to send a SMS or how to configure an 
email client before they are able to simply set their own stories or lyrics a 
their classes homepage with such a watchdog as admin. ;-)


Elmar