On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, D. Glenn Arthur Jr. wrote:

> Andrew Ducker <[email protected]> suggested:
>
> > Some (maybe even a lot) of people have custom posting lists
> > where they ask people if they want to be on their "cat photo"
> > filter.  They then have to follow comments/poll entries,
> > add/remove people by hand, etc. to allow them access.
>
> Yes, and I've wanted a reader-controlled solution instead ever
> since tags were announced.  Like Mark Smith and Azalais Aranxta,

You can call me Kiri.  I just don't use my whole legal name or
any of the email addresses associated therewith on lists that are
open to the public because I unfortunately have stalkers.  (Not
that it's much protection, but at least they don't email me at
work.)

> This does put onto authors the responsibility of using tags
> consistently,

Well, speaking as me, the only reason I don't do that on LJ is
that they were introduced after I already had thousands of posts,
which I will someday tag consistently in my Copious Free Time,
but it took me a whole afternoon just to do that for one
community I mod which is younger than my actual journal.

I think if this is made clear and easy to do from jump, most
people will do it.

> Posts that _should_ remain friends-locked can be handled by
> putting them under general friends-lock and tagging them so
> that the people permitted to see them can choose whether to
> filter them out or not; and any filters that are for the
> privacy and/or convenience of the poster rather than opt-in
> filters for the convenience of their readers, would still be
> handled as custom trust-filters as they are now.  AFAICT,
> there's all win and no lose here, doing this with tags, as
> long as this doesn't put unexpected strain on the database.

This sounds like what I meant when I made my post.

~kiri
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