Comments | jenna_thorn: Oh please no.

jenna_thorn

Oh please no.

Sep 01, 2010 08:30

If you know me both on FaceBook and Livejournal, please please please do not link or crosspost comments made in this journal to your FB account.

I'm not worried about fannish links, so if your Twitter is all fannish, yay! Go nuts, link away. My concern is blurring the line between the entity that writes fic (Jenna_thorn) and the one that pays taxes (the ( Read more... )

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shaddow September 1 2010, 18:31:54 UTC

I hope to have mitigated it by adjusting my accounts settings to allow comments from friends only and to screen all comments by default. We'll see.

jenna_thorn September 1 2010, 19:08:10 UTC

Yeah, I've got pingbacks enabled so if someone does cross, I'll at least know and can react accordingly. I have not deliberately connected the two accounts on my end, so I don't think I'll screw up and cross-post accidently. Unless Facebook or LJ gets clever and looks at my cookies or however gmail's ads do it. I know I've been startled sometimes by sites that say, "Hi! person from {town}. Would you like to buy a {whatever the email I'm composing is about}?" I know it's reading information that I made public but it's still hiccup-inducing.

I'm torn, quite honestly. If the fannish community moved, I'd be willing to move, as DW seems to be more fan-friendly, despite the permanent account and my zillions of lovely userpics. The meatspace people seemed to have moved on to Facebook mostly anyway, really. Except I don't really talk on FB, as you know, not my silly introspective musings, at least. Updates on school shopping don't count. (1) I'm too aware that everything I say there is judged by my in-laws and the people I used to hang out ( ... )

shaddow September 1 2010, 19:45:19 UTC

Pingbacks won't, however, notify you if it is an entry that is not open to everyone. Yet cross-posting can be on any post that the user has access.
From their faq:
"Please note that pingbacks only work for public entries. Friends-Only or Private entries cannot receive pingbacks."

".. standoffish is the best word I can come up with"
yeah, understand. Reclusive or retreating from community. Hate it but... ::shrug::

jenna_thorn September 1 2010, 21:26:35 UTC

Oh fiddle faddle. But it will still show me if {person} cross posts his comment made here to his Facebook, which is the most likely situation.

Actually, the most likely situation, if LJ chooses to keep this "feature" despite the outcry (because I do understand both that a very many people do not have my issues and also that just because fannish folks prefer to use a nom de plume (nom de pixel?) that's not enough reason to roll back a change that affects the whole site, assuming that the fannish folks are a minority of the users) is that I will wave goodbye to my happy pile of userpics and the history I've built here on LJ and make my meandering thoughts about gardening in North Texas on FB, track my knitting projects on Ravelry, post stories without commentary directly to Skyehawke and AO3, and just read on DW for as long as that lasts.

Exactly. I like this community. I don't want to mix my happy fun party with friends dancing to Oingo Boingo and drinking concotions with dubious names in with my formal holiday dinner with family ( ... )

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