Default security level

[iamrobertsworry]

Title
Default security level

Short, concise description of the idea
Currently El Jay has a way to set the minimum security for a new post, which needs more granularity biased on the method of the post.

Full description of the ideaUnder Settings>Privacy>Default Entry Security there are the friends, private, public

Comments

[sansaii]

Why don't you, instead, just define each entry individually as "Private" or "Friends Only" when you're posting them from your computer, but set the level of security for your entire journal as "Public," which will allow you to post from your e-mail with ease? This way, each entry you post will end up private anyway, and you can easily post your pictures when you want them.

In any case, this would have the same exact chances of running the risk of you forgetting your own settings and posting something you don't want, as it would have if the settings for all of LiveJournal were changed in your favor...

so it's another option to accomplish the same thing, with it taking the same amount of time to tweek individual settings to fit the current situation, with exactly the same problems/issues involved.

I don't really see the need to change all of livejournal's settings to accomplish something that could be done in other ways.

[februaryfour]

It involves typing "lj-security: Friends" every single time you post a picture. After a while, that gets REALLY tiring, especially if you have a regular phone keyboard. It doesn't seem like a rare usage case either.

I'm behind this suggestion--it would be nice to have e-mail posts be different from regular posts or even posts from Semagic.

[pwaa]

I think it needs more granularity in general. You should be able to set your default security level to "custom": say if there are people on your flist you wish to remain there but do not wish to see most of your entries. It's a pain to set every entry to a custom security level, and it's even more of a pain to go back and edit past entries to be custom. There's a mass edit tool for security, which is great, but all it lets you do is everyone, friends only, or private. I'd like to have a list of friends who I want to include in my usual entries and set all entries by default to be visible to those friends only. And if I decide to change who those friends are, I ought to just be able to change the custom friends group and everything would just work.