Free Retroactive Privacy for All!

[azurelunatic]

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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

[dunv_i]

Mass post-alteration is extremely resource intensive. Resource intensive means it costs a lot of money. Which means it actually makes sense from a business standpoint to charge for it, sorry.

[rizzo]

I will always say no to this. Why not give everyone extra userpics, space, and all the other Paid/Perm account perks too?

[dobie]

I agree with everyone who has said "no" so far. It's a server-intensive feature that does indeed cost LJ money to run.

Though, they might offer it in the same way they offer the "rename journal" - sell a token that can be used once for $x.xx - But personally, I'd price it the same as a 2-month paid subscription ;)

[azurelunatic]

My inner cynic approves of this idea.

[februaryfour]

It's $5. No.

[azurelunatic]

An alternative to the usually suggested form of this might be to have a seriously rate-limited and low-priority version of this for unpaid users, which might take an arbitrarily long time to complete (rather than working merely slowly), but would take no more effort on the user's part.