Community Locked Entries On Personal Journals

[tarafishes]

Title
Community Locked Entries On Personal Journals

Short, concise description of the idea
I request the ability to create entries accessible by only the members of a certain community, but for our personal journals, so leaving the entries opened or adding everyone who is part of a community to your friends list is unnecessary.

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Comments

[lied_ohne_worte]

Agreed. If the comm has open membership, the entry is essentially public. If the membership is moderated, then the maintainers get to decide who reads your entries.

[just_chiara]

I like this, could be very useful. And I can always go back and make the entry private/FO if I feel like the community's mods are allowing people I don't like to join the community.

[charliemc]

Agreed. I can think of many times when this would be a useful setting.

[lied_ohne_worte]

Could you explain your "benefits" a little more? I'm not entirely sure what you mean by them.

If you believe that your entry might get lost if you post it to the comm itself, how will people find it in your journal? They would almost certainly add you to their Friends list so they can follow you.

And if most of the members of a comm were to use this feature, people would just start adding everyone else as a friend, which means that they would give them access to all of their own Friends-locked entries, meaning that you would end up with less security. Now, when you join a comm, there is one step involved (or two, if you friend it), which will give you access to every members-only entry, but will not give anyone from the comm access to anything more. I see your suggestion 1) being a lot more complicated, and 2) lowering security, not increasing it.

[tarafishes]

how will people find it in your journal?
My journal is full of friend-locked entries. Unless this person were on my friend list, they wouldn't see anything but unlocked entries and the comm-locked entries(if they were apart of that particular community). Why would they add me to their friends list if it wasn't locked to my friends in the first place? That would be quite intrusive. If I'm sharing pictures or something of the sort, that doesn't mean I want them involved in my personal life and thus on my friends list. Of course, if you have opened entries on your journal, then that's different.

people would just start adding everyone else as a friend
No, because they wouldn't need to add anyone as a friend, just be part of the community that it's being shared with. Simply posting it to the community, especially if it's a heavily-posted-to community, gives it the potential to be buried under other entries. If anything, people would just join that particular community.

[lied_ohne_worte]

Sorry, I didn't make myself clear. What I mean is that people in the comm would need to have a way of knowing that an individual member has posted something in their journal. Say, a comm has a few hundred members, and only 20 of them post community-locked entries in their own journals. How do they notify everyone else that they do so? And how do the other members find out when a new entry has been posted? I think most people would just take the step of adding every other member if they are interested in their content - or they wouldn't do so, and the community-locked entries would not be seen by anyone.

[tarafishes]

Possibly special notifications, although I usually imagined links to comm-locked entries being posted to the communities themselves, although that would be needlessly tedious, but if you cross-post it like I've noticed has been being done in some communities I watch(they're usually cross-posted to sister communities, and they're usually icon posts, but nonetheless they're still cross-posted just about everywhere related tot he main community) it wouldn't be such an unnecessary thing.

I don't think they would--after all, not everything posted to the journal will be of interest. In fact, there may only be a few things of interest posted there, so a short-term add would simply be annoying.

[dobie]

Yes, yes this is a VERY good idea, especially if the same permissions can also be applied to items in Scrapbook as well.

[unmowngrass]

Why can't you just create a separate journal for this purpose, to which you do add community members and noone else? You can alway have your main flist add it too if they are interested in features you may post there.

[unmowngrass]

Sorry, I forgot to add, make the second journal friends only.

[tarafishes]

Because that seems more than a little unnecessary to me, especially adding all of the community members, especially since you might not know when new members are added to the community.