comment with different privacy level than the entry made on

[anya98]

Title
comment with different privacy level than the entry made on

Short, concise description of the idea
a user may choose the level of privacy of their comment, to an entry that they haven't written themselves. such as "LJ users only" or "anyone" can view this comment

Full description of the ideai tend to get frustrated while commenting on the

Comments

[silverflight8]

I think that control of the comments to the entry should be under the journal/entry owner - if you don't want it to be public, use private messaging or an already-locked post. This strikes me as a very, very complicated way to do this - if you set it to 'friends', then is it your list or their list? What if the comments are screened?

Moreover, can you explain how this would end up with 'less spam'?

[anya98]

when posting this suggestion, i had the following notes in mind:

1) i tend to NOT comment on entries that are public, which makes it unfair...

2) it is not that big of a deal to add comment privacy since the levels are 2, and not several (Registered Users - RegUs) ... and ... Anyone).

if you're to comment only to the poster, you write a note to him... but the idea of a comment is to remain relevant to a post, instead of popping a PM to them...

and, there can be some easy measures such as:

- stricter privacy levels dominate (i.e. if you reply on a "Regus" comment, yours will be of same privacy level -Regus, but if you reply to a "Anyone" comment, you may set it as "Regus".

- the poster CAN put all the comments as "Regus", but NOT set them all to "Anyone".

[anya98]

when you post to a non-locked entry... you're exposed... voila, you're google-able. there enters the bots friending you, and sending you "Valium for free" comments.

i prefer to be in my own mercy than hope someone had screened his comments.

[anotherdream]

I'm a little confused. Here you are, posting an unlocked post to an open community, and further commenting on it. Your username laready produces several hundred hits on google on livejournal.com alone. What would you have to gain from this feature at this point?

I personally vote no. It would fragment the userbase and make having conversations more difficult.

[charliemc]

As others have said, I think the person posting the entry should determine what the privacy level is for ALL comments.

When I post something public, I WANT the comments (all of them) to also be public.

(If someone wants to contact me privately, they're always still free to do that... But it often bugs me at, say Facebook, when someone sends me a private message rather than saying something directly to what I've shared, so... Just sayin'...)