Release 80

Jun 09, 2011 13:51

Release #80 has arrived! Here's the information about the new features and bugfixes that are now live on the site:

Features/changes:
  • You can now have your friends page display content from journals and communities based on tags! You can set options to either show only entries with specified tags, or to exclude only entries with specified tags. ( Read more... )

friends tags, r80

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vayshti June 10 2011, 11:52:57 UTC
The retroactiveness bothers me greatly.

I mod a few communities with IP logging. It was a necessity because I wanted to keep the comms open to anon posters and commenters, but at the same time one of the comms in particular gets a whole lot of anon trolls and antagonistic sock puppets.

Rather than close the community and limit the voices, IP logging as a deterrent was preferable. I often used a 3rd party site to look up IPs but only for those IPs/user-socks who had made themselves problematic.

But hey, what do you know, those posts which were made by socklets, who in the past would have had to laboriously compile IP locationgs of their attack victims (and know how to do so) now have an easy out... unless I start making massive holes in the community's history by deleting those posts outright.

I live in a large metropolis, so IP location flags for myself aren't going to do squat, but for *any* one living in a smaller community, if a comm poster or mod thinks their location is "interesting" (where they'd never have done that for a string of numbers) it makes it so much easier for stalking and real life identities being outed. It doesn't have to be malicious either to cause damage.

Yes, this stuff was possible before, but now it's easy - and the ease is what will make stalking and outing increase.

Also, there's a difference in attitude - as a mod, to look up a location was an active decision; there was a knowledge that you were prying (even if it was easy for those in the know to do so), so anything gleaned was through prying, and so outing was very much on the mod or poster and could gain justified anger.

Now? Responsibility lies completely with the user. If the information is given automatically, then users have no grounds if people stalk them and join all the oblique dots they've left over the years.

From now on, nothing can be said with real IPs if you are concerned about anyone in their real life knowing about. Lots of people will start using proxies....and then that just completely kills the point of having this feature in the first place, doesn't it?

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forcryinoutloud June 10 2011, 16:31:40 UTC
but for *any* one living in a smaller community, if a comm poster or mod thinks their location is "interesting" (where they'd never have done that for a string of numbers) it makes it so much easier for stalking and real life identities being outed. It doesn't have to be malicious either to cause damage.

This, this, THIS!

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