Journal Linking

[dusktodawn]

Title
Journal Linking

Short, concise description of the idea
Linking multiple journals to one main one.

Full description of the idea
If you've got one journal you use for every day use, but you've created a couple others for special interests, maybe making it to where you could post to the others from the main one.
An ordered list of benefits

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Comments

[diziara]

I'd think this would be an expansion (programming wise) of the ability to control a community account from a personal account, and I know it would make a lot of users who are active in the RPG subculture on LJ very happy, though I know there are other users who have reasons for having additional journals.

If this is done, would the primary account be listed on the profile of the subaccount or would the primary account profile list subaccount profiles? I'm not sure what I'd think if that was done, as I know some people keep secondary journals to avoid hurting feelings or distract family/friends from finding their journal with the more personal/private thoughts, however on the other hand, if this feature was implemented without adding notification to the primary or the subaccount profile as to who's in control of the subaccount, it would make it easier for malicious sock puppet posting.

[azurelunatic]

If it's going to be easy to switch between a primary journal and a sub-account/project journal, I think the relationship should be shown on both profiles. People are already creating multiple regular journals for various purposes, and a link is not shown there. Maintainers even of closed and completely friends-locked communities are shown, even though sometimes these maintainers would rather have more privacy.

[diziara]

I suppose if someone has a reason (valid or not) for wanting to hide the relationship before the journals, they can simply opt to control the multiple journals the way it's currently done. This avoids enabling lazy trolls, and makes sure those who are hiding the connection have a reason important enough to themselves to make it worth the extra effort.

[azurelunatic]

I was thinking over the topic at more length this past weekend, and I got into the idea of project journals and whether they should be treated like communities or like personal journals as far as security is concerned.

Obviously journals who the project journal has added as a friend should be able to comment to the project journal if they have friends-only commenting enabled.

Should the project journal be allowed to comment to other journals? (Yes, I think.) Should the project journal be allowed to comment to journals who have added it as a friend if they have friends-only commenting enabled? I think so, especially for the case of locked RPGs.

Should a project journal be allowed to see the locked entries of journals that list it as a friend? Personal journals are allowed to do this, but the maintainer of a community that you're the member of is not allowed to do this. This is one of those things that I can't even begin to wrap my brain around, because there are arguments for both.

[diziara]

I think, other than accessing settings under the "parent" account, and listing the relationship of "parent" and "sub" account in profiles, these project journals should be treated like a personal journal. Commenting, entry filtering/protection and such should all be treated like it would under a personal account.

[azurelunatic]

That would keep it from breaking current non-primary journal use, and it would allow for RP sub-accounts to play in locked RPs without adding the master account as a friend.