Free Retroactive Privacy for All!

[azurelunatic]

This suggestion is suggested, and then deleted by the original poster, every few months. This suggestion is to provide a permanent archive for the discussion of this suggestion.

Title
Free Retroactive Privacy for All!

Short, concise description of the idea
LiveJournal should offer use of the Edit Journal Privacy tool at no charge to all users,

Comments

[mordyn4]

Huh, why do they delete it?

Honestly, how much money is made from this feature? I suppose that's hard to quantify, but at least admins could look at the frequency with which the feature is used.

I don't think it's a bad suggestion, I'd just have to look at the numbers before deciding if it should remain paid users only.

What have other people objected to about this?

[azurelunatic]

There's generally a lot of disagreement from the community. This is generally based on the attitude of the typical suggester, which tends to not acknowledge that the service costs LiveJournal anything to offer, and tends to treat it as a right that they are entitled to and being denied, often with the sort of details of personal woe and suffering caused by incautious sharing of personal information that might lead an internet veteran to the opinion that they brought the situation on themselves and it should be up to them to extract themselves from it.

[mordyn4]

Ah, I see. Yes.

Well, it's just a numbers issue for me.

And thank you for posting this for discussion.

[azurelunatic]

Another general feature of the suggestions is also the general feeling that LiveJournal doesn't offer at all a way to edit old entries to private for unpaid users, when in fact there is that capability, just much more tedious on the part of the journal owner.

[kayt_arminta]

-1 It's a paid feature. Why do people keep asking for paid things to be free? There's a reason that it's a paid feature and not a free one, just think about it a little and maybe you'll see how selfish and entitled people sound when asking to make paid things free.

Maybe LJ should start an a-la-cart features list, so you can just pay for the paid features you want instead of everything you won't use. Like for me, the polls and a bunch of other features I'll never use, but if I could take them off and make my yearly paid time just a little lower that would be cool... though I'm betting there would be a LOT of fiddly code to work with and it's probably not worth the time for LJ staff for a couple of bucks here and there.

[koulagirl666]

Now that I'd go for - there are so many paid features that I just don't/can't use, and if I could sell back/not buy them maybe LJ wouldn't have to keep that space for me. Like scrapbook space on the server that I'm not using but someone else might like to, or the phone posts my provider is incompatible with.

[kayt_arminta]

Exactly. A lot of people would benefit from it. But I doubt it'll happen, like I said, it's probably a ton of fiddly code.

[koulagirl666]

I don't see it being all that fiddly actually. They can already add things like support privs on an individual basis, and userpic add-ons are done individually as well (like if you buy the 100 userpics on a paid account, you have 100 more than someone who hasn't), so the structure exists. So it would just be like having everything like that, so when you logged in the system would go Y or N for each add on and for each Y quantify an expiry date, the way it does for userpics now.

then again, if they're having so much trouble making the userpics a la carte, I guess it wouldn't happen.

Even a tickybox when paying for a paid account that asks what features you want?

[worldserpent]

No... LJ-sec and other downloadable clients are really not that hard to use. Maybe an alternative could be selling an "make all public entries locked" one time only switch, a la the rename feature.

Also... should the suggestions comm really be the platform for "make paid feature free" suggestions? I don't think it's really the best place to discuss the issue, because it's not technical, it's business oriented. The discussions which tend to occur are not very productive, frequently. I think maybe it could be handled better by having periodic posts in the feedback comm, for example, or polls in news.

[ex_uniquewo]

+1

[turlough]

+1

[desh]

I wish other problems in my life could be fixed as easily for $5.

[girlfight]

THIS.

[andy]

Yeah.