It's the little boxes in the comment forms that could allow somebody to spread information about posts to Twitter and Facebook. Even from locked entries.
Huh, so there are new boxes. So, people are potentially reposting their comments on an entry that isn't necessarily theirs to other sites? Who would want to do that to begin with?
I have no idea why anyone would want to do that, so I can't help there. Someone apparently thought it was a good enough and likely-to-be-popular enough thing that it was worth coding, or maybe it's just that Twitter and/or Facebook offered money? In which case... who knows.
As for the thing itself, a massive part of the problem is that it could easily happen by accident, especially for people using adaptive software (screenreaders or something?, or alternate means of moving/clicking without using a mouse).
That, and it wasn't until page 91 of comments to the newspost announcing this--comments which were overwhelmingly and almost unanimously negative--that LJ went "...okay, we'll think about how best to change this to serve our users better, we'll get back to you on that" (I paraphrase, but not by much). The fact that, in doing so, they also said THEY wouldn't have wanted this... uh
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I have no idea why anyone would want to do that, so I can't help there. Someone apparently thought it was a good enough and likely-to-be-popular enough thing that it was worth coding, or maybe it's just that Twitter and/or Facebook offered money? In which case... who knows.
As for the thing itself, a massive part of the problem is that it could easily happen by accident, especially for people using adaptive software (screenreaders or something?, or alternate means of moving/clicking without using a mouse).
That, and it wasn't until page 91 of comments to the newspost announcing this--comments which were overwhelmingly and almost unanimously negative--that LJ went "...okay, we'll think about how best to change this to serve our users better, we'll get back to you on that" (I paraphrase, but not by much). The fact that, in doing so, they also said THEY wouldn't have wanted this... uh ( ... )
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