So here's the skinny as I know it...

[elanurel]

I've been doing a lot of research on the Crossposting to Twitter and Facebook from Livejournal Fiasco.

Comments

[isabelladangelo]

I've been posting this a lot today but

[elanurel]

It's the ability to cross-post comments someone made to a private post that bothers me the most. I have come to the point where I know that public is public and that's the choice I make.

But, again. My journal. My choice.

[isabelladangelo]

Oh, no, please don't misunderstand. I'm merely pointing out that the entire thing will not be made public - if someone quotes your text in their comment, only the first paragraph of that comment will be shown. Still, it is very dangerous and I'm giving LJ a week to fix it.

[elanurel]

I didn't misunderstand. I know you weren't defending it at all. Sorry if I came across more defensively than I should have. ;)

[arwensouth]

I guess I'm willing to take a "wait and see" kind of attitude here. I mean, as you say, right now there's nothing keeping anyone on my f-list from copying and pasting anything they have access to on my LJ into their Facebook -- except their integrity. Hopefully, I've set up my filters and been picky enough about who I've let into my friends list that it won't become an issue.

That said, I wouldn't mind having one of those Dreamwidth invites... :)

[elanurel]

The problem for me really comes down to the fact that I don't have the ability to say "no" when it comes to the feature. Again, don't think anyone I know would do it anyway so it's something akin to the "principle of the thing" at this point - but it's the principle that's really bugging me.

Here's a Dreamwidth code:

P5HJRGD3S5PP7AAAHTGM

[gestaltrose]

*sighs* fail lj just fail.

I too have a dreamwidth and many invites

[elanurel]

I am hoping that LJ will realize that this is such a monumental fail that something will happen within the week to fix it. I wouldn't have a problem with it if I had been given the option to opt-in, meaning that I'm the one giving permission to someone else to cross-post comments they made to my entries, as opposed to making the choice not to cross-post comments to other people's journals.

Which I think I have now said ad naseum...

And I am so antsy about it that I keep closing my browser down, logging into facebook and checking to see if any of my comments cross-posted - even with my settings set to "no" and my script that strips away the ability completely for comments.

Are we already hooked up on DW? I am elanurel. Like that's a shocker.

[embroiderama]

Yeah, it's messed up. :\ I really hate the idea of moving to Dreamwidth because I like how I have things set up here on LJ and the communities are all formed and everything, and redoing all of that feels overwhelmingly difficult. I also have a hard time managing to keep up with both LJ flist and DW reading list. So, right now I'm very much waiting and hoping that LJ will fix things.

[elanurel]

Every time LJ does something like this, I think to myself, "okay, this is going to be the thing that moves people to Dreamwidth." I know most of the major SPN communities have sites set up on DW, but I doubt that are as heavily utilized as the ones here

[embroiderama]

I know most of the major SPN communities have sites set up on DW, but I doubt that are as heavily utilized as the ones here.

True. And what I meant was not so much the actual creation of a DW-comm but the actual gathering of people that it takes to make the community really happen. Seriously, the thought of having to switch from LJ to DW makes me feel massively anxious because with the exception of BS pulled by the LJ PTB I like it here.

[elanurel]

Me, too. It really has become the "principle of the thing" for me because I don't see a lot of folks making the move, regardless. I also know that there are lots of non-fandom folks who use their journals as a means of staying in contact and already cross-post their entries to Facebook. The two are not mutually connected, you know?

But having gotten the whole rant out of my system, I feel a little better about it. I guess that if I am going to get outed for writing porn on the Internet, nothing will keep that from happening if there was truly one jerk out there who decided to do it. And that person wouldn't be one of my on-line friends.

Still... I can't get past the nagging feeling that we should be given the choice, you know?

[a_phoenixdragon]

Damn...is about as bad as I thought. Is it okay if I link some of my friends to this so they can know what the hell is going on?

*hugs*

[elanurel]

Sure. Though I'm betting there are folks out there who can describe it much more succinctly than I can. ;)

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