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Crossposting feature (e.g. Dreamwidth)
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It should be possible to crosspost from the original LJ entry to other services like Dreamwidth etc.
Full description of the ideaSeveral of my friends wandered off to Dreamwidth, so to stay in contact with them I opened a DW account as well. There is a crossposting
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Since this comes up with the keyword "crossposting", for those who are not familiar, their implementation doesn't allow things like crossposting to multiple communities, to communities at all, or to other journals you control on the same service, only to your accounts on different services.
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I have a profound mistrust of tag-based controls, myself, based on my loathing for overloading index-tagging and control-tagging.
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Besides, you can cut+paste the text to both sites even now, it's just not as convenient as having a "professional crossposting feature".
I don't really see your problem here.
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The first time they see any one given entry, it's signal. After that, unless there are comments of interest or other unique content (for example, say you have a WordPress blog that's 80% echoes of stuff from LJ, and 20% unique entries that your LJ friends likely wouldn't be interested in), it's noise.
The answer isn't always as clear-cut as to remove the accounts that are duplicating content, because sometimes you want to give access (and read/access is tied like with friends on LJ), sometimes there's that 20% of unique content, sometimes there are comments, etc.
It's a social problem that technical solutions haven't quite caught up with yet.
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However, regarding the use of a crossposting feature - IMO it's really something the user should decide - I'm not for limiting a site's functionality because some users may use it in an annoying way ('cause they can already do so, if they want).
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