True enough. I can't think of any similarly compelling reason to restrict entry-viewing to logged-in members (or rather, nothing that isn't accomplished equally well by telling Google it's not allowed in to this entry--or is that possible only on a whole-journal basis, not entry-by-entry? Because I can definitely see wanting one's journal Google-searchable but not all of it, and not wanting to restrict all of those entries to a select list of readers), but I also can't think of any reason why, providing it's possible and somebody has the time and motivation to make it happen, it shouldn't happen.
Of course Chasy could be talking about what Chris said, wanting to restrict a personal-journal entry to the members of (say) stargate_summer but being unable or unwilling to post to stargate_summer itself (and the presence of sos_lounge makes this a bad example, but...), in which case I look dumb now. Chasy-and-zvi is a they. Chasy is not a they. MercuryBlue On 2/4/09, zvi <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, restricting comments to logged in users only means it's possible to > ban comments from a specific user and they can't escape the ban by posting > anonymously. (And, if they continue to post from a series of alternate > accounts that can be shown to belong to a particular individual, they can > get TOSsed from LJ, if not necessarily LJ clones.) > > Also, some people don't mind complete strangers posting on their entries, > but they do want everyone who posts to have a name. Restricting to logged-in > users technologically enforces a signature requirement. > > (AFAIK, logged-in users includes VERIFIED OpenID accounts, i.e. the ones > where the OpenID holder has verified an e-mail address to be connected w/ > their OpenID.) > > P.S. 'They' works just fine for singular third person gender unknown, and > it's been in use that way for ... about as long as Modern English. I'm not > sure about Middle or Old English. Denise's attack of hives notwithstanding. > > --zvi > -- "It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." --Albert Einstein Torture is wrong. _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
