Moderation tool: Comment screening options to include custom friends groups

[siderea]

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Moderation tool: Comment screening options to include custom friends groups

Short, concise description of the ideaPresently the comment screening options for entries are not as fine-grained as the "security" settings, and should be made to match, so that journal owners have the equivalent of email list server's "moderation" setting for

Comments

[mlady_rebecca]

Nice thorough suggestion. I don't think I've seen use cases before. *g*

I like the idea. It makes a nice transition between friends you are trying to get to know and friends you completely trust.

[dcseain]

Yes, I think this is a good idea. And I agree that it is a very well thought-out suggestion.

[vvalkyri]

Same here. And also agreed about the use cases.

[andrewducker]

Yup, agreed on all counts.

[charliemc]

This sounds like a good idea to me.

+1

[imc]

I'm not confident this will lead to a net reduction in LJ drama. Discovering they can't post unscreened will be an outrage to some LJ users, and this tool can be used for evil as well as good.

Currently the text opposite the "post as another user" option on the comment form of a nonfriends-screened journal entry says something like "will be screened if not a friend". It would be hard to come up with something equivalent to write here if certain users will be screened and others won't (and it would reveal whether or not the custom screening option had been used, which might upset some people).

[dobie]

TBH, I have to agree that it might insult people, however I can think of many times when it would come in handy on my own journal.

For example, I like to make gun-rights posts, but I have a few people on my friends list who are rabidly anti-gun. They are my friends, otherwise, but I invariably have to screen and/or freeze threads that they are in because of the comments that they make.

However, since I make all of the posts of that type public, I can't friends-filter them from seeing those posts, so the ability to make only their commends screened by default would be useful, rather then having to screen ALL of the comments on the entry.

TL;DR: +1 to the suggestion, even though it might cause some drama, the moderation abilities that it would give are highly useful.

[lady_angelina]

For public posts, unless you also screen anon comments or comments of those who aren't on your Friends list, it would be remarkably easy for them to determine that they had been "moderated" and to find ways to circumvent it. All they would have to do is log out (and, if you're only screening anon comments, log into a different journal) and try commenting again. =P

[turlough]

Huh? This suggestion seems completely unnecessary to me. Why don't you just use a filter that will exclude these people from even seeing the entry in question? Why create a new tool to do a job that an old one will do just as well?

[trixieleitz]

The OP has described quite carefully why they might want someone to be able to read entries, while not permitting them free rein in the comments.

[turlough]

Well, to me they seem mostly to say "because I want to" and I really don't think that's reason enough.

[trixieleitz]

That's pretty much what any suggestion boils down to. The key differences between suggestions rest more on why they want to, and whether other users might want to as well.