additional security class: Public Only

[biggaloot]

Title
additional security class: Public Only

Short, concise description of the idea
a class of pages that only non-friends see.

Full description of the ideaIt would be good to set an entry as "public only" - one that we can use when non - friends land on our journal and we can communicate some specific message to them consistently

Comments

[harrywells]

Ditto.

[bride]

The only thing I can think of is that "non-friends" means everyone that you didn't add. So, by backdating, the Also-Friend-Ofs (the ones who added you that you didn't add back) wouldn't see it. Backdating would also mean that anyone looking at their FriendsFriends wouldn't see it either.

[boredinsomniac]

Non-friends would see it on the main journal page, but not on their Friends pages. But that doesn't matter, since once the entry was two weeks old it wouldn't show on anyone's Friends page anyway.

[queerbychoice]

Friends will never continue seeing a postdated entry on their friends page every day, because entries are listed on friends pages not in the order of the date marked on the entries but rather in the order those entries were actually posted. I assure you that if you go to the friends pages of your friends, your postdated entry will not show up at the top there after other people have made more recent entries.

And if you don't want the entry to ever show up on their friends page at all, you can do that already by checking the "backdate entry box," like the people above me said.

[leora]

But there's no reason to post it way in advance anyway. There's no reason to keep it on top. If it's the most recent date for a public entry, then it is what will be seen whenever someone not on your friends list goes to view your journal regardless of what other entries you see on top of it that are protected. And if you don't future-date it, then those other more recent protected entries will be what your friends see.

[jc]

The wording's a bit off, here.

• "Public", by definition, means everybody. I think you're suggesting a "non-friends" security setting.
• You're talking about post-dating entries, but you're implying that these entries always show up at the top of your friends' Friends pages: I think you mean your own Recent Entries page as others see it, as this never happens with Friends pages. (Just imagine the chaos that would ensue if it suddenly did.)

You can always use the Backdate option to avoid new entries showing up on other users' Friends pages, and backdating a public entry to a few weeks ago will avoid your friends seeing it at the top of your journal pages, and - at the same time - show this entry at the top for non-friends, providing all "future" entries (in the chronological sense) are friends-only. So, thumbs down on this one.

[biggaloot]

Probably a "non-friends" security setting is the correct way to go, and close enough to what I meant originally (which is more like public minus friends). Backdating is just completely clumsy for this purpose. And I don't want to have to be have friends-only-posts-from-now-on in order to make this work without backdating, because I want to make some posts public, while still having non-friends land on the announcement that my journal is largely (not exclusively) friends only. I don't want to have to look at that post-dated entry every time I look at my own journal either.

Plus, it would not at all affect the way *anyone* operates their journal now; you could still continue to use that backdating function or whatever. Because some people wouldn't be able to figure out how to use a new feature is *certainly* not a good reason to toss it.

[biggaloot]

Maybe having just an "introductory entry" that we can set as a default for anyone to land on when they are not signed in would be the best approach. you would be able to choose it, or not, and you could *really* have a lot of fun with it. It could be like your very own Live Journal Home Page...

[biggaloot]

...perhaps maid available only to paid members??

[dailybecoming]

i think in your situation this would be a very good option - but i think if it is set up it should be discussed on the FAQ page - or somewhere that new users and those who dont know much about the option can read about the uses of this option - some people might use it thinking that they can write whatever they want if its public only - and not realise their friends can sign out and read it.