Indication of Custom Friends Groups on Entries

[janinedog]

Hi guys! One feature that many of you have wanted for a very long time is some indication when entries are posted to custom friends groups. Right now, these entries show the normal Friends-only lock icon, so neither the poster nor the viewers of the entry know that the entry is filtered (the poster can find out by editing the entry, but not by

Comments

[tajasel]

Anyone who can see the entry, namely because I know a lot of people who use filters (myself included) tend to say in the entry "this is filtered, don't talk about it even to those you know to be on my friends list because they might not actually be on the filter" in the entry and it gets kinda tedious to say that everytime you filter an entry.

It would just be more useful all round if there was an icon to indicate it - people tend to check for a padlock, so if there is a dedicated icon (though I wouldn't know what to suggest as a suitable one) for filtered entries, then those making the entry wouldn't have to say "don't talk about it" each time.

[velvetchamber]

Although a lot of people (and I am one of them) never notice the locked icon.

[tajasel]

I don't notice it per se, but I would assume if someone was thinking of mentioning the contents of another person's journal to somebody else, they would check for lock status - if an entry is locked, it can generally be assumed you shouldn't talk about it to other people.
Thus, having a dedicated symbol would help this further, because if you see a regular padlock, you know it is only friendslocked, so you know it is okay to talk to someone on the friends list, whereas if you see the filter icon, you know it is filtered.

[velvetchamber]

I think it depends a lot on people's habits. Some people, or even cultures, may be more likely to keep this in mind than others. I personally don't think much of what is locked and what not, even though I keep nearly all of my journal locked.

Not to mention the fact that having a mandatory separate filtered icon opens up a can of worms when it comes to drama. If every filtered entry were identifiable as such, some people might go out of their way to talk about it to all and any, just to see who is filtered in and who not. But then again, every little thing in one way or another affecting people's conception of privacy is a good drama generator.

[yzztik]

I didn't vote because you are missing an important option. The owner of the journal should be able to set this privacy level.

Personally, I may not want readers to see what group they belong to that allows them to see that entry. If others do, then they can enable that for their accounts.

[galeena]

very good point.

[ishte]

IAWTC

[ambrosial_starr]

agreed!!!

[insaint]

I think displaying the filter name and/or icon would make good configuration options for creating new filters.

[sanguinity]

There's no way that LJ should be defaulting to allowing others to see previously private information, especially information that is often used to maintain privacy. I'm not even sure why that's up for discussion.

If there are a significant proportion of people who want to share the filter names with others, then that should be a user-specific or filter-specific option.

[rikes]

There's no way that LJ should be defaulting to allowing others to see previously private information

Seconded.

[turlough]

+1

[janet_carter]

Agreed.

[provetheworst]

Yeah, I'm with the third option of allowing the user to decide if the filter name is visible or not.

none of the above

[squinting_kitty]

Yeah, I'm with the third option of allowing the user to decide if the filter name is visible or not.

Same. But with another caveat: I think that the journal owner of the filter should also be able to set whether or not the filter status of posts (i.e. whether the post has been filtered) should be visible to those in the filter.

Assuming that is not possible, I agree with ladysunflow above: *very strong opinion against other people seeing how and when I filter things*

Re: none of the above

[provetheworst]

see, i just think it would be great fun to come up with dumb names for my filters, so that if i'm filtering to, say, people who live in my hometown, i can name the filter "upscale hookers."

not that i don't already do this on those rare occasions that i filter. just. you know.

Re: none of the above

[squinting_kitty]

Yeah, I just think the displaying of it should be optional.