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]> _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
