Permit only logged-in users to view specific entries

[lullabee_lj]

Title
Permit only logged-in users to view specific entries

Short, concise description of the idea
Similar to friends-locking an entry, this would prevent users who are not logged in from viewing an entry.

Full description of the ideaSo, like I said, only users logged into their Livejournal accounts would be able to view specified journal entries. It

Comments

[azurelunatic]

This was last brought up in 2007, and given that we're heading out of 2009, we might as well re-visit that now rather than later: http://community.livejournal.com/suggestions/693466.html... )

[ceilidh]

It could decrease spam significantly: anonymous spambots without LJ accounts would not be able to get in (without getting accounts), and if the entries were not indexed on search engines, there would be little point in spamming.

+1 for this reason.

[ceilidh]

Yeah, I know that. But it does seem kind of silly to have this setting for Scrapbook and not for LJ.

[_nicolai_]

Adult content settings would ACTUALLY WORK
No, they wouldn't.
Anyone who wants to see the content, would just create a throw-away account to view it. We haven't even got to the problems of trying to impose uniform social standards on the entire planet.
On the internet no-one knows you're a dog. Content filters don't prevent the determined from seeing the content they want to see. Give up on this idea, you will fail.

[turlough]

Hear, hear!

[_nicolai_]

A requirement to log in to read more content, and to be logged in to be sure to see all the content you want to see (how will you know if you're missing content due to not being logged in?) will make Livejournal less of an open publishing system and more of a closed, Facebook-style, system.
If I wanted facebook, I'd use facebook.

[koulagirl666]

We already have to log in to make sure we don't miss anything that's Friends- or custom-filtered. I don't see how adding a less restrictive security level is going to change that.

[mordyn4]

If I wanted facebook, I'd use facebook.

This.

There are a lot of lurkers on LJ, and I don't think we should be looking for ways of cutting them, and the ad revenue from them, off.

[mooism]

Underage LJers would be able to log out and then log back in with a second account that claims their age is 48, surely?

[azurelunatic]

There are certain measures put in place to help reduce the number of teenagers who create accounts, realize their account is restricted, and immediately turn around and create second accounts with a different age. (I'm not saying second accounts of an older age can't be done, it's just got a slight level of difficulty that results in at least a generous handful of teens getting foiled and contacting Support crankily.

[andy]

False sense of security, yes.