I was one of the people who thought that Chasy was referring to a security level open just to DW communities, and I actually don't think that would be a half-bad idea.
For example, I'm in a bunch of original work writing communities on LJ and JF. Most of them the point isn't to post a whole chapter in one go. If I want to post something to one of groups, my choices seem to be either "hey, here is a friends-locked community post of excerpt of something I'm writing" and leave it at that, or to post the whole chapter publicly (which I don't like to do between publishing issues, people I know in real life finding out the sort of things I write, and bugging my friends list with writing posts that aren't on the writing filter) and saying "here's an excerpt, go over to linky <i>here</i> to read more if you want." For another, I have an empty secondary LJ account that I use to post to a venting community for librarians. No way I want something like "library patrons suck" on the public profile of my real account, but I really like a lot of the people in that group and wouldn't mind letting them read my journal. In both cases, it seems useful to me to have a security setting where one could set an entry or a journal to "members of ___ community". I'm not technical at all, but I could see this having the possibility to be a really complicated piece of coding. I'm not sure how it would actually work, except maybe as a kind of whitelist that checks logged in user names against membership in okayed communities. Does anyone else think this sounds like an idea worth exploring? Emily Styles
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