Editing access for syndicated feeds

[purpletigron]

Title
Editing access for syndicated feeds

Short, concise description of the idea
Several times each month, I see: [Error: Irreparable invalid markup in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] in a syndicated journal entry. Some mechanism is needed for rapidly correcting these entries.

Full description of the idea
See above.
An ordered

Comments

[trbleclef]

Broken or not, I don't want someone editing someone else's content

[purpletigron]

Since the author themselves has not explicitly consented to the RSS, the only person who could correct the formatting would be an official moderator. If the official moderator abused their access, it would be removed from them - the original article should not be too hard to trace. Any person who can be trusted with root access to a shared system should be trustworthy for this task.

[trbleclef]

Sorry. Too much potential for abuse.

[purpletigron]

What - giving someone root access on a shared system?

there should be a 'half-down' post icon

[subbes]

I'd rather see the handling of broken html on rss feeds changed than an after-measure implemented to deal with it.

Re: there should be a 'half-down' post icon

[purpletigron]

I'd be quite happy with that solution - I assumed that since it hadn't been fixed already, it wasn't technically feasible.

Re: there should be a 'half-down' post icon

[cmshaw]

Yes, I share this opinion.

[tsutton]

No. I dont want to see it edited apart from the author who posted it.

[purpletigron]

There is no author who posted it to LJ. Either we (i) fix the way broken HTML is dealt with by LJ, or we (ii) ask each original author to set up and monitor the LJ RSS version of their work, or (iii) a moderator is appointed to correct the errors.

This 'open to abuse' point only makes sense if there is unregulated editing access.

[trbleclef]

There is no author who posted it to LJ.
Well, yeah, that's kind of the point.

(ii) ask each original author to set up and monitor the LJ RSS version of their work
I would imagine there probably isn't an "LJ RSS" version. And this defeats the purpose of subscription in the first place!

I think it's too much trouble for what it's worth. If you want the content, then tell the author to be more careful. Editing their content would also arguably violate their copyright, but I really don't want to get into a discussion of that.

[miome]

I would rather see html stripped from syndication entries, than have anyone able to edit them. That's simply not appropriate.

[ursamajor]

Tentative thumbs-up to this; I'd only want HTML to be stripped IFF it was an entry with malformed HTML. Lots of feeds send images without issue, and their readers shouldn't be penalized.

And regardless of whether or not an entry has bad HTML, it should still provide the original URL, clickable, of the syndicated entry at the top. Of course I can't find an example now to back my memory up, but I could swear that when syn entries get broken, they don't provide a link to the original URL, which is annoying.

[desh]

http://www.livejournal.com/community/suggestions/527680.html

[ursamajor]

yay! yes, this.

[ruakh]

Buggy entry no longer messes up numerous Friends pages

Sorry, how does it "mess up" people's friends pages? I don't consider a tasteful, textual error message in one entry to be "messing up" a friends page.

[purpletigron]

Firstly, you can't read the content, which is messy.

Secondly, I get as that entry on my Friends list a screenful of HTML code and content, with a scroll bar down the side.

[subbes]

I get the equivalent of an iframe when html is brtoken on syn entries. Sometimes the iframe-equivalent is so wide as to give me a horizontal scroll and you know, although it's a minor thing, it does irritate me because then I can't read the rest of my page easily.

I'll lay money there's a fix for the broken-html issue hiding somewhere in bugzilla or someone's mailbox. $5.

Prove me wrong, LJ.