I'd just like to add to this that there are a vast myriad of reasons *not* to allow people to see what someone's filters are and who are on those filters, which seems to be what some people here are asking for.
Most people I know who filter do it for the sake of not inconveniencing others: for example, making it so that friends who aren't interested in posts related to X fandom don't have to sift through them. But sometimes the filters are specifically for privacy reasons, for anything from planning a surprise party for someone on your friendslist to discussing personal matters like medical issues. If I don't want a given person on one of my filters, it's certainly not their business to know that a) that there is such a filter, b) what it's called, or c) who's on the filter, unless I *choose* to tell them. I really, really hope throwing open to public consumption the filters of any given user is not in the plans for DW, because that alone would be enough to make sure I never set a foot in the service. principia_coh Alexis Carpenter -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Azalais Aranxta <[email protected]> > On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Azure Lunatic wrote: > > > 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. > > Yeah, I was about to say--I can't see my custom filter names when > I'm signed into LJ in my other accounts even if I am on the > filter in that account! > > But I did think there were some layouts that displayed this. > Just as there are layouts which display your icon keywords if you > comment in them...WHICH I HATE. If someone wants to take the > extra effort to mouseover, fine, but it essentially means I have > to change all my keywords to things that are polite if they show > automatically, and some of them used to be things that I thought > were funny but didn't necessarily want everyone who read my > comments to take as a comment on the person whose post I was > responding to! > > **************************************************************** > Azalais Aranxta (~malfoy) > ataniell93 on LiveJournal and Vox > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/malfoymadness > > "I know the true world, and you know I do. But we needn't let it > think we all bow down." --Christopher Fry > _______________________________________________ > 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
