Always allow posters to access their own friends-only community posts

[pauamma]

Title
Always allow posters to access their own friends-only community posts

Short, concise description of the idea
Allow users with community posting access to view their own members-only posts to communities they're not members of and comment on those posts.

Full description of the ideaCurrently, a LiveJournal user can have posting access to a

Comments

[qfemale]

As long as this only applies for people that are not banned in said community, why not.

[pauamma]

Yes, I meant as long as the user still has posting access to the community (which can be lost either by the permission being revoked, if it was a only-members-can-post community, or by being banned).

[mordyn4]

+1

I always thought that was wonky.

[turlough]

It's weird that this isn't already the case!

[intrepia]

Yes, this makes sense. And if we are going by the idea that users own the content they produce, then people should have access to their locked entries in communities they are not a member of and cannot join (even if they were banned), and people should have access to their comments in protected entries in other users' journals and communities, even when they no longer have access to those entries.

[azurelunatic]

Even if they're banned from the community, they should at least have access to view (and not change) the source code of it, and delete it, which is the editing capacity that a community maintainer has.

I don't think they should necessarily have access to delete specific comments to a post, or even view them if they've no longer access (if they got notifications, they'd still have those), but they should still have access to delete the whole entry.

I want to see if this is already the case, given the URL to work it, actually.

[pauamma]

I'm specifically not addressing the "banned users" case, because that's a can of worms I don't care to open. :-)

[azurelunatic]

Gotcha. Anyone got a worm-lid, or a bucket of water? (Afraid I already started the thumper, and this is some nice packed sand.)

[azurelunatic]

By hacking the URL together (http://www.livejournal.com/editjournal.bml?journal=EXAMPLECOMM&itemid=123456) I can see the edit window and unlock or delete the entry.

[azurelunatic]

So currently, if you have posting access, you can access the post and edit it to be public, and then have full control over it. You do need to do that to view comments in their native environment, but you can edit the post. So it's partially already implemented, but not fully.