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[travels_in_time]

On the one hand, it is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the data; it biases the judgment.

On the other hand, there are points which might be of interest to those persons who have been too busy to read 9000+ comments in the current LiveTwitBook debacle.

1. This article, showing where our Russian overlords have already bought

Comments

[draycevixen]

Also, if you're going to have a facebook and LJ account (I don't have a FB account) I'd seriously recommending having different e-mail accounts for each and, in case you haven't done it yet, I've elected to not have my e-mail addie searchable under the LJ privacy settings.

[travels_in_time]

I do have different accounts for each, but my back-up e-mail address for LJ (where it e-mails your password in case you get locked out of the original, or whatever the heck it's for) is the one that's hooked to FB. Even if I go and delete that, I'm figuring there's a history kept of it somewhere.

Good point about making the e-mail non-searchable. Mine is, but many people may not think about that. Although again, FB has a history of ignoring what people select and making things public that were previously private.

[draycevixen]

I've chosen *not* to have a FB account, I had one for a while but it really only put me in touch with people I was *already* in touch with, like my brothers, colleagues, who I see every day and old acquaintances I was happy never hearing from again.

I'd still recommend changing that e-mail.

I'm on LJ for my mates and for my coms. As I've only had one of my mates make the full move to DW rather than just cross posting I'm not jumping ship. It would annoy me no end to journal at DW and then have to lug my ashes over to LJ every day to take part in my coms/speak to my mates.

I've used the codes to block the crossposting on my own LJ and the greasemonkey script so my comment boxes look just like they used to look and that's that for me... at least for now.

[travels_in_time]

I'm about to edit the post to add--I've just found out that the script I'm using for the boxes not to show up here is just hiding them, not disabling them. So if someone has their journal set up to automatically cross-post, and they would uncheck the boxes for comments out of courtesy to me, now they can't. And since they can't even see the boxes, it might not occur to them that it's being done.

[ghoulchick]

Notes popping up on all your FB friends' pages saying, "Jane Doe is on LiveJournal as =janedomme=, go and check her out!"?

Holy shit. I hadn't even considered that possibility. Will be making sure the emails don't match up, pronto.

Say, I see that you don't have the FB and Twit ticky box options on your post box. How'd you manage that?

[travels_in_time]

Oh, thanks for reminding me! Need to edit the post again. There's an easy script you can paste in your CSS box that will keep them from appearing on your journal. However, I've just found out that it only hides them, it doesn't disable them. So if someone comments, and has their journal set to automatically cross-post, you've just taken away the option for them to uncheck the box and NOT cross-post their comment.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

[pointytilly]

I was rather surprised to see that post calling display:none a way to disable things rather than just hide them, actually. Misleading way to describe CSS is misleading D:.

(Or did the original post say that? Either way, I saw that code billed as disabling/removing them...)

[travels_in_time]

I'm not sure how it was originally billed, but non-CSS people (like me) were interpreting it, and probably passing it along to their friends, as a way of disabling them completely.

[rustydog]

Very interesting, and would not surprise me.

I need to prioritize importing my LJs to DW. Just to be prepared in case I ever feel the need to jump ship. (Which I would still rather not do, dangit.)

[travels_in_time]

Very, very easy to do. Takes about five minutes, honestly. (If the site isn't overrun with people backing up right now; DW has seen about 30,000 new accounts created over the past three days. For comparison, it usually runs at about 100-200 per day.)

[ghoulchick]

This.

[ghoulchick]

Okay, about your first ETA - what if the stuff's always been locked down? Is it still getting quoted and pinged? WTF?

[travels_in_time]

If you don't make any changes to it, old stuff should be okay. I was thinking of people who were talking about mass flocking of journals. New stuff, even if flocked, even if pingback is turned off, is getting quoted and pinged--bad bug somewhere in the code, apparently.

They're saying that shortened urls, like with tinyurl.com, doesn't trigger the bot, so if you feel that you need to link something, you may want to use that until it's fixed.

I dunno that I'll ever trust LJ to really fix anything at all, anymore, though.

[hamsterwoman]

It really is starting to feel like that's what's going on. And:

Notes popping up on all your FB friends' pages saying, "Jane Doe is on LiveJournal as =janedomme=, go and check her out!"?

this is what's concerning me more (potentially) than the comments cross-posting -- which I pretty much trust my f-list not to do -- because that sounds exactly like Facebook's MO.