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

[mendel]

That problem is easy to fix: Send mail to the originator of the feed asking them to fix their content.

[crschmidt]

Except in cases where the "author" doesn't actually create that content: GMANE lists, for example, use a perfectly acceptable address escaping format, but LiveJournal's parser barfs on it, because it is pretending something is a tag which really isn't.

Example is at http://www.livejournal.com/users/gnhlug_complete/245078.html

In cases like that, the fault clearly lies with LiveJournal, rather than with the content creator.

of course, I still think this suggestion is ridiculous: Where would you get the moderators? Those kind of people don't just come from nowhere.

[mendel]

Ah, good point. But yes, the LiveJournal bug should be fixed, not institutionalized.

[ruakh]

Is there any widely-accepted way of determining whether the description is HTML or plain text?

[decadence1]

Vote no for the reasons others gave above.

I like your Bagpuss icon very much though. 8-)