Hiding Communities.

[onlylisa]

Title
Hiding Communities.

Short, concise description of the idea
The option to hide the communities you belong to if you'd rather others not know they belong in your interests.

Full description of the idea
Same as you can hide your 'friend of' list.
An ordered list of benefits

• Some community involvement may something you wish to keep private.
• You can

Comments

[turlough]

Comparing community membership and friend-of is completely erroneous, they're not comparable entities at all. It's you yourself who choses which comms you're a member of, not someone else. If you are scared to be seen as a member of a certain comm then get a dummy account, it's very easy. And free too.

[rebelsheart]

Agreed. An additional account is free. You have total control over what communities you join, what interests you list, and who you choose to tell about your journal.

[turlough]

Dude, you've changed your username! I recognised the usericon but the name was all wrong :-)

[rebelsheart]

A few weeks ago. This is the name I've always wanted and the name I mostly use online. It's just not been available.

[elfy]

I like it.

[q_rai]

great idea!

[worldserpent]

You don't control who friends you, which is why LJ allows you to hide the friends-of list. But, you do control who friends you, which is why LJ doesn't allow you to hide it (IIRC).

Similarly, you choose whether to join a comm or not. Also, this move will not really protect your privacy, because your username will still show up on the comm's profile. So this creates a false sense of security. Also, hiding the friends of list does not prevent people from finding out who has friended you. They just need to use other ways.

So, I recommend if you need to do this, you create a new secret account and join the comm.

[mskala]

"I wouldn't join any community that would have me as a member."

[onlylisa]

What if it's your community and you are the maintainer who decides who joins?

[mskala]

We'll cross that bridge when we come to it.

[pbristow]

Hee! Thanks for that. =:o}