this is a followup to an older post. currently you have 5 groups of users - 1. non-members, 2. antville-members, i.e. members on some other antville-site, 3. weblog-members, i.e. members of this particular site, 4. contributers and 5. admins of one site.

there are differences between group 2 and group 3, but they are currently treated as being the same. antville members can comment and post on an open site without being weblog-member. on the other hand, the weblog-membership is required to receive the contributor or admin privilege.

here are my idea from the user (not programmer) perspective. the normal user won't notice a difference but the admin will.

• if a non-member signs up to one weblog he becomes an antville-member and, of course, a weblog-member of this particular site.

• if a antville-member visites a weblog he is not a member he can simply sign up to become a weblog-member
  a) with a 1-click-registration (file a patent on this :-) or b) by writing a comment or creating a story or image (if allowed).

• a weblog-member will appear on the membership page and the site-admin can assign privileges as before, but the sign-up link in the member-menu should vanish. maybe you give the admin a chance to block users.

• contributers and admins remain the same.

maybe we can have a chat on the phone, because i have some more ideas resulting from my experience with manila.

Hi, although I know for sure, a couple of people signed up to my log Ador.antville, there isn't at least one signed up user listed in the membership category? What's the prob?