On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 06:06, Azure Lunatic <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Sarah Stokely <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> New to the list, I'm blithespirit on LJ. :)
>> I just wanted to request a clarification of the above.
>> One of my gripes with the current LJ filtered post system is that when I
>> post to a filtered group (for example, work friends), the name of that
>> filtered list is displayed on the post. I don't think it's optimal for a
>> group name I use (internally) to categorise  'friends' groups
>> necessarily be displayed to members of that group, although I can
>> understand having the *option* to display the name of the custom list to
>> people. ie - this is my custom list for work chat, so you can speak
>> freely, or something like that. I'm not sure if this is something being
>> addressed by DW or not?
>
> I can't speak for how Dreamwidth will implement it, but I am familiar
> with how this feature behaves on LJ. The name is displayed to the post
> owner only, and if the post owner wishes to share that name with
> others, then the post owner would have to deliberately reveal that in
> the subject, text, or tags of the post.

Also, the post owner can now see (through a different icon) that a
post is filtered rather than visible to all friends, but other users
cannot; they see the same "lock" icon whether an entry is friends-only
or filtered to a specific group or groups.

Cheers,
-- 
Philip Newton <[email protected]>
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