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Entry Movement/Transfer
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I think it would be a good idea to be able to move entries from one place(say, a community) to another(either another community or a personal journal).
Full description of the ideaI think that the ability to move an entry to another place would be very useful. For example(and in my
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It's not as though you're editing them. We can screen and unscreen delete comments that aren't ours, as long as they're on our entry/in our journal, so I don't see why moving them elsewhere with the entry they were posted to is an issue?
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The issue is that I want one or more entries off of there, with comments intact, not to continue using the community. If that were the case I would just delete everything from it and start over, not want to move things elsewhere. While being able to reuse the community would be nice, I would more than likely simply get rid of it entirely, once I'd moved the things I wanted off of it. That was simply a hypothetical use for it.
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I do understand that it's annoying to have a single entry stuck on a journal or community you otherwise want to get rid of or use for something else, and perhaps to merge it with another journal or community that's more appropriate for it. I just don't think this is feasible or even really doable, although I'll leave it up to LJ devs/staff to weigh in on this.
Also, if you're not planning to reuse the community, what's wrong with just leaving it as is? That is, if your suggestion weren't ever implemented. I know it's one more community to keep track of, but there's really no harm in letting a formerly active community sit around forever. (In fact, I wish this were more often the case because lots of really good content has been lost to deletion/purging, all because the maintainer thought no one was interested anymore.)
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Well, my friend is the one who made the community, so, really, if I think about it, giving it back to her would be the smartest option, since she could think of something to do with it, or reactivate it again, or give it to someone else, instead of just letting it sit there--I'm not even sure if it'd let me remove it, really(it was a roleplay community, hence why getting rid of it isn't such a big deal to me, and the only ones that payed attention to it were those of us apart of it, and we've all, since, dispersed, although it could still be used again, theoretically. Most of the content was in the personal journals, and it never really went too far. But I understand losing content that way--I've seen at least two communities go like that. Although, the reasons were more lack of credit or being stolen from than lack of interest, I think.)
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I'm frustrated by putting a post in a given community, receiving comments to it ONLY to have a maintainer (moderator) then DELETE said community. It would be cool to be able have something of a 'back up' to that possibility...
But, again, I don't know if it's even possible to do this, not being a programmer...
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Perhaps this idea would have better been stated as some sort of backup for comments and entries, not just a way to move/copy the entries elsewhere.
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I totally agree!
Over the years I've been at LiveJournal, I've lost some community posts and comments that make me nuts to think about. (sigh)
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