LJ FAIL: news update.

[maetang]

There's been an update on news.

This is a good start, but it's still not enough for me.

I still want to be able to opt-out of crossposting altogether for my own journal, and the communities I manage on LJ. Not just in Friends-Only entries, but in public posts too. Why should LJ make it easier for other people to crosspost from my journal? I would still rather that they have to go to the trouble of copy-pasting content if they want to do that. Also, what happens if some LJ newbie comes across my journal, hasn't read my profile - where I explicitly state that I don't want crossposting from my journal - and then when seeing the crossposting buttons when commenting here, thinks that I must be OK with that as a standard response.

All of this means that I am still reluctantly keeping commenting in my journal to Friends Only, because I don't trust users who I don't know, and who may be new to LJ, to respect my wishes here.

Also, LJ have not clarified that they will make it clear to users connecting their FB accounts to LJ that their FB username (very often people's Real Names) will appear on their LJ profiles under "external services". LJ users should be notified that this will happen in advance, so they can make fully informed choices about if they want to connect both accounts or not.

None of this clarifies or addresses the differences between LJ's TOS and FB's TOS, in terms of Intellectual Property Rights. This should also be made clear to users, and I still resent LJ making it easier to crosspost content from my journal, or my communities here.