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Tags are working exactly as I hoped, and this really took me off-guard! Suddenly, posts I made nearly four years ago are right next to posts I made yesterday, when certain tags are clicked. Combined with my starting to use Xjournal, a kickass client that makes it very easy to pull up and edit any historical post, this creates a small dilemma: should I repair posts from the past? I'm running into a lot that have broken but repairable links, or incorrect information, or plain-text references to people who have gotten LJ accounts since then.
Rather more unsettling, a friend emailed me to say psst while pointing to a post that was far more frank about my feelings regarding certain FOAFs than I would write in a public post today. The post was from 2001, when most of my RL friends were not yet LJ friends.
I marked the post as private, and will have to pay more attention to this sort of content as I continue my tagging mission. (Which is taking as long as I expected; I'm not even through January 2002 yet!) I pray that I do not accidentally cause awkwardness as old posts start to bubble up. I actually don't think that I will cause actual anger, even if I let some tricky posts slip by; I am not a cranky meanie. But still. Feel free to call me out on anything I say, even if I said it a long time ago.
Rather more unsettling, a friend emailed me to say psst while pointing to a post that was far more frank about my feelings regarding certain FOAFs than I would write in a public post today. The post was from 2001, when most of my RL friends were not yet LJ friends.
I marked the post as private, and will have to pay more attention to this sort of content as I continue my tagging mission. (Which is taking as long as I expected; I'm not even through January 2002 yet!) I pray that I do not accidentally cause awkwardness as old posts start to bubble up. I actually don't think that I will cause actual anger, even if I let some tricky posts slip by; I am not a cranky meanie. But still. Feel free to call me out on anything I say, even if I said it a long time ago.