CUNY Academic Commons

Privacy setting are coming in BP 1.2 core or at least as a plugin within the next few months http://buddypress.org/about/roadmap/ http://buddypress.org/forums/topic/buddypress-privacy-component-an-update. The only solutions aside from a very complex plugin like the one being developed are (a) to hide all profile data from non-logged-in users or (b) to put noindex meta tags on all profiles pages. Both seem to be me to be very against the spirit of the Commons. (You might argue the same thing about privacy settings in general, but some people have very legitimate reasons for hiding themselves from Google.)

Anyway, I say that the current line should be "don't put anything on your Commons profile that you don't want public". When the new BP stuff comes out we can consider whether it's appropriate for the Commons.