Free Retroactive Privacy for All!

[azurelunatic]

This suggestion is suggested, and then deleted by the original poster, every few months. This suggestion is to provide a permanent archive for the discussion of this suggestion.

Title
Free Retroactive Privacy for All!

Short, concise description of the idea
LiveJournal should offer use of the Edit Journal Privacy tool at no charge to all users,

Comments

[mordyn4]

Huh, why do they delete it?

Honestly, how much money is made from this feature? I suppose that's hard to quantify, but at least admins could look at the frequency with which the feature is used.

I don't think it's a bad suggestion, I'd just have to look at the numbers before deciding if it should remain paid users only.

What have other people objected to about this?

[azurelunatic]

There's generally a lot of disagreement from the community. This is generally based on the attitude of the typical suggester, which tends to not acknowledge that the service costs LiveJournal anything to offer, and tends to treat it as a right that they are entitled to and being denied, often with the sort of details of personal woe and suffering caused by incautious sharing of personal information that might lead an internet veteran to the opinion that they brought the situation on themselves and it should be up to them to extract themselves from it.

[mordyn4]

Ah, I see. Yes.

Well, it's just a numbers issue for me.

And thank you for posting this for discussion.

[azurelunatic]

Another general feature of the suggestions is also the general feeling that LiveJournal doesn't offer at all a way to edit old entries to private for unpaid users, when in fact there is that capability, just much more tedious on the part of the journal owner.

[mordyn4]

Yes, and I think there's a greasemonkey script or a client that will do the same thing, but I don't know if it still works.

[worldserpent]

LJ-sec is the client that will do it. I recently used it to make all of my public entries friends-only, and worked. It's also, IMHO, very easy to use.

[mordyn4]

I thought so!

Thank you.