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[calliope85]

Eh, I don't normally bother getting worked up about livejournal's various attacks of uselessness, but this one does seem more than usually stupid, so - a brief post. (Sorry for f-list spam, especially for those of you who have already heard MORE THAN ENOUGH about this nonsense.) As you may have noticed, the most recent coding release from LJ

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[parrot_knight]

I generally hope that no-one would be so stupid as to routinely cross-post comments; quite apart from the valid points which you raise, . I confess to having cross-posted Doctor Who reviews to Facebook in the past, but have now set up another blog under my real name which will eventually include the Doctor Who reviews when I get round to it.

My fannishness is fairly well-known (when I was introduced to my future supervisor at a college history society dinner, he asked what my vices were [not unprompted] and a chorus of "Doctor Who!" was made by fellows and students alike) but has not yet included gay porn (well, not any that I've initiated); this business reminds me to be more circumspect about what I make public and what I don't...

[calliope85]

Yes, I hope people wouldn't be that stupid (and inconsiderate) either, but there are always stupid people in the world in general, and on LJ in particular ^_^ One of the more irritating things about this whole debacle is that one can see how some limited form of this functionality might have been useful - there's nothing wrong with cross-posting one's own entries into other formats, and I can see some users might well like having it built in. (Though I suppose even that could still cause problems if there's a link-back facility, as commenters on the original post might well not want people from other platforms wandering in and seeing what they posted - especially when that other platform is Facebook, and the people wandering in could (eg.) potentially know the commenter IRL and be able to connect the comments with the individual.) It's the way LJ have implemented it in such a ridiculously ill thought-out and high-handed way that particularly frustrates me - and especially as they've still yet to post any official reaction. This is not

[parrot_knight]

Back in SixApart days, LJ seemed to want to jettison that customer base entirely. I think that what bothers me (and probably others) is that a new cadre of users might be drawn into LJ whose mentality draws them towards higher linkage quotients, so to speak. Even though it's easy for text in locked posts to be copied, pasted and distributed elsewhere, one trusts people on one's flists to respect one's wishes. An influx of people posting simultaneously on several platforms at once might just change this for the worse.

[highfantastical]

many of us like to keep our gay porn separate from our work colleagues and family

YES INDEED. I will certainly never link LJ and Facebook, the idea horrifies me. One good thing is that, so long as one doesn't establish a link between them, it won't know the information automatically - as I write this, the little cross-post boxes are greyed-out, so no danger of doing it accidentally. (Of course that assumes no one on our f'lists would want to link their online presences, which may not be the case.)

More blog posts may be expected

Yay! Um. I hope the thesis is going as well as can be. *tinywince* because I realise it may be hell. But you can do it! ^____^

[calliope85]

*nodnod* Indeed. It's not that I think many people on my flist are likely to be linking their Facebook account to LJ at *all*, let alone that they'll set it up to crosspost by default; but so much of my journal is left on public access (because I'm mostly here for the fanglee, which is somewhat thwarted if people can't read your fics unless you've friended them), it's not just going to be my friends who wander in, and random visitors might not be so privacy-wise. Seems like a recipe for trolling to me, and communities are liable to get it worse - the reaction of someone who's never looked at LJ before who innocently follows a FB link to biggles_slash doesn't exactly bear thinking about ^_

[highfantastical]

Aww, it's not fail - I doubt it's easy for anyone to know exactly how long the getting-into-shape will take in practice. You're so close, anyway! Obviously I knew you were a postgrad, but I didn't realise you were as near to completion as all that - brilliant.

Guy would probably like to keep your morale up. Oh no I didn't say that. Ohgod, my place in innuendo hell is BOOKED.

[calliope85]

Heh, well, at the moment I'm somewhat at the TAKE IT AWAY, I HATE THE SIGHT OF IT stage which I tend to arrive at with every bit of academic work in the last stages, so I'm mainly annoyed that it's going to be HANGING AROUND for a few more weeks...

ahahahahahaha :D I would rather Antony, but he would not care about my morale for lo am I not Guy. WOE.

...I need a Cambridge Spies icon. Preferably one that's not my MSN icon of Guy saying WOULD YOU LIKE A FUCKING WHELK.

[taversham]

Since the sf_drama post I am having real trouble not replying and crossposting to f-locked posts with "SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR INTRACTABLE PUBIC LICE ISSUE HAVE YOU TRIED CRABZAWAY ON THOSE HORRIBLE PUBIC LICE" ...I need some people I dislike on my f-list, then I could do it.

...But no, I don't like it either.

[calliope85]

:D :D Maybe if we all spammed Facebook with comments about people's STDs they wouldn't want to be connected with us any more...