Wherein LiveJournal are once again jerks.
I had a paid livejournal account for a few years. It ran out recently, and apropos of happenings over the last little while I decided I wasn't going to renew it. I in fact decided this many months ago, but that's by the by.
By virtue of this charming fucking piece of assfuckery, does anyone reading this actually use this crossposting feature? Yes ( Read more... )
By virtue of this charming fucking piece of assfuckery, does anyone reading this actually use this crossposting feature? Yes ( Read more... )
It is true that this feature makes it somewhat easier to cross-post comments, and I do agree that it would be better to make people stop and think about what they are doing when dealing with locked posts.
However, I also think we should bear in mind that this feature doesn't enable anyone to spread anything that they couldn't anyway, and that what gets cross-posted isn't even what the owner of the journal writes. The cross-posted material is a comment written by the cross-poster, and that person is entitled to do whatever they like with their writing. (Where you say it's fine for people to cross-post their own content? That applies to their comments too. Regardless of whether somebody else allows those comments to be hosted in their journal, that content still belongs to the writer.)
Perhaps of a little more concern is the combination of quoting functionality with cross-posting functionality, so that somebody can quote your words into their comments and cross-post, but even then, the native LJ quoting functionality is a bit of a pain to use, so it isn't much helping people to cross-post your words without thought.
I don't really see a case for helping to cross-post comments out of locked journal posts, but it's not exactly Breastgate again.
Oh, I never answered the original questions, did I? No, I don't use the cross-post functionality. I don't even have a Twitter account (you might notice that my comments tend to be rather longer than 140 characters), and my Farcebork account is dormant enough that I've got something like 70 friends requests I haven't bothered to deal with, let alone set it up to interact with LJ.
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