Just a technical correction: It is not possible to make a comment completely undeletable. Un-seeable, yes; un-replyable, yes; un-editable, yes; improbably-deletable, perhaps, but not 100% un-deletable.
Freezing only prevents replies -- frozen comments can still be deleted, by the comment writer as well as the journal owner. Privatizing/filtering the entry prevents you from *seeing* the comment, but you can still *delete* it if you know the URL. (It's a kludgy workaround that most people don't know, but not impossible.) To test this, if you have two or more personal journals: use journal A to make a comment on journal B. This comment is now available at the following URL, with appropriate usernames, entry numbers, and comment numbers: http://[journalB].livejournal.com/[entryID].html?thread=[commentID]. Log into journal B, freeze the comment, and edit the entry to private. Log back into journal A, go to the previous URL -- which can also be found on journal A's Recent Comments page, under comments posted -- and you will not be able to see it. Go to the following URL, substituting as necessary: http://www.livejournal.com/delcomment.bml?journal=[journalB]&id=[commentID] ...without brackets -- if someone else had commented in my journal, it would be something like ?journal=isabeau&id=1234567 -- and you will not be able to see the text of the comment, but you can successfully delete it. (As long as it's a comment you have the authority to delete, i.e. one that you posted non-anonymously. (Or, technically, one in an entry that you wrote, but if it's your entry you wouldn't need that workaround.)) Long explanation is long, and 99.9% of the LJ population don't know this is possible. (Though for paid accounts that get emailed copies of their own comments, there's probably a "Delete this comment" link, which is infinitely easier.) -isabeau John Walton wrote: > On Jan 8, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Denny wrote: > >> Personally, if it is indeed possible to render a comment >> undeleteable by >> freezing it, then I think any comment posted to a journal other than >> your own is well and truly out of your control - so expecting to >> control >> it beyond that point is a bit optimistic. And, yes, unreasonable. > > Well, as far as I see it, if I leave a comment on LeShawnda's entry, > which LeShawnda then filters away from me, then I can't delete it. LJ > seems to have existed with this for long enough; do we have any > significant concerns about it being the status quo on DW? > > --John > _______________________________________________ > dw-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
