Community Members List

[blueserenity22]

Title
Community Members List

Short, concise description of the idea
Ability for community maintainers to hide their members list.

Full description of the ideaI run a few support communities on LJ that are prone to trolling and harassment towards the members. Many people create "fake" LJ accounts so that their LJ friends are not able to stumble upon

Comments

[jai_dit]

AFAIK, the only reason paidmembers does this is because of load issues (anyone who has a paid account can join, so it has a huge member list.)

[azurelunatic]

almostanyone everyone who has a paid account can does join

[blueserenity22]

But if they already have the coding to do it, why not open it up to general LJ communities that also have issues?

[charliemc]

Good point!

+1

[aveleh]

Yeah, I like this idea, but don't think it should change any ability paid users have to search for community members by using the Directory Search.

[blueserenity22]

Then that would completely defeat the purpose of what I want to use it for haha!

[aveleh]

I know :( Security-by-obscurity is not actually security. But I still think it's the right combination of making things a little harder and not actually removing functionality.

[blueserenity22]

Very true, very true.

[lady_angelina]

I like the idea, too (since there are a few communities I would love to join, but for the fact that I don't want my journal directly associated with them due to privacy issues)... but yeah, what others have said.

Besides, another downside would be that the member would have a false sense of security by relying on the maintainers' willingness to keep the Members list private at all times. The maintainer(s) could easily and quietly change the setting to display the Members list, despite promising the members that they would keep it private. Even after the members found out, the damage would have already been done.

[blueserenity22]

Wow that would be a really shitty moderator to not update their members on any type of community update, let alone a privacy setting like that.

Unfortunately, though, you do have a point because I'm sure there are some shitty moderators out there.

[brion]

I like this idea very much and could see it being very useful.

[azurelunatic]

I have to admit that I feel really weird about this idea, in a large part because LJ has come down so hard on the "information about social connections should be public" end of things over the years. The inability for community members to see who other members are is a really heavily weighted drawback to me.

[turlough]

+1