Maintainer-only security level in communities

[mashimero]

Title
Maintainer-only security level in communities

Short, concise description of the idea
Add an option to make posts in a community visible to maintainers only.

Full description of the ideaWhen posting to a community as a maintainer, it would be nice to have a security setting of maintainers-only instead of the just the current members and public

Comments

[eurii]

most communities that need maintainer communication just make a 2nd community for the maintainers.

[alexiel_rieth]

Another option I've seen is to make a special mod journal that only mods are given the password to.

[lied_ohne_worte]

That's not really recommendable - LJ discourages the sharing of passwords to personal accounts.

[charliemc]

Exactly. I've done that many times...

[scien]

So much yes.

And it's not just about not wanting to communicate by email, it's about having a record available in a sensible place when mods change.

[azurelunatic]

Since this exists on Dreamwidth, I can say practically speaking that another possible problem is having an important entry that's maintainers-only security being missed by the people who need to see it because there are so many other public or locked entries in the community, and it gets lost in the shuffle. Though one would solve this by creating a tag that is used on all maintainer-security entries, applying it at the time of posting and not after (because after does not send a notification), and asking all maintainers to subscribe to notifications for new entries with this tag.

It is implemented there by basically allowing private-security entries in communities and treating the maintainers as owners who are allowed to see private entries. Though I don't have more details than that.

[foxfirefey]

Since there are security filters, I don't think there's any more/less likelihood on losing posts in the shuffle than there is in having a separate community. There's also the ability to make a new subscription for admins for admin only posts, which would help.

[soph]

Does LJ have that ability, though? I didn't think you could subscribe to posts by security level on LJ.

[foxfirefey]

I phrased wrong--I meant that LJ would have the ability to make such a new subscription, not that it already existed!

[boredinsomniac]

This suggestion has been submitted for staff consideration.