Guest Stats

[thephalseprofit]

Title
Guest Stats

Short, concise description of the idea
Allow us to see who has viewed our profile or blog

Full description of the ideaI don't like the idea of people "opting out" and then viewing my blog being invisible. I want to know who is reading my blog and my profile. I make myself known when I post, they should make themselves known when

Comments

[andy]

The only valid part in this suggestion is giving journals an option to restrict "My Guests opt-out" users from reading them, but that would be a waste of developer time anyway, because one may always register a sockpuppet to read your posts.

[amante_donne]

What is a sockpuppet?

[andy]

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sockpuppet

[amante_donne]

ahh I see, thanks very much.

[pauamma]

Unless you don't post public entries, any user wanting to stay off your stats may just log out of LJ before viewing your journal, unless I misunderstand what you want.

[charliemc]

Agreed.

-1

[mlady_rebecca]

I personally opt out of guest stats. As a community moderator (who must approve new memberships and handle troublemakers) and a support volunteer, I frequently visit random journals once or twice for pertinent information for me to help that user. I don't wish to be tracked as if I'm visiting the journal as a normal reader of that journal's content.

So, no, I'm strongly against removing the ability to opt out.

Re: -1

[charliemc]

I totally agree.

[charliemc]

If you don't want people to freely read your blog, there is one obvious answer: Don't post any public blogs.

-1

[lady_angelina]

This.

I do get the objection that some people want to be able to post public blogs and be able to restrict who reads them... but that's defeating the purpose right there of making it public. =P There's just no practical way to make a public journal visible to the whole world except for X user who's opted out of MyGuests; as andy said, anyone can make a sock journal to circumvent that. The user still wouldn't be able to tell for sure who's reading them. =P

[lied_ohne_worte]

No, for the reasons others gave. If you want to control who reads what, and if you want to make your journal "safe", then you can't post public entries. I'm not a computer wizard (or rather witch, I assume), but I can immediately think of three ways to read your journal even if you have this feature without you ever learning my username.