Hi! I'm sort-of new (have been watching the list, but only now jumping in to speak), and I wanted to say that I like Chasy's idea, and here's why:
I use my LJ for both fandom and RL posts. At the moment, my fandom posts (episode reactions, fanfiction, etc.) are public and my RL posts are friends-only. However, that's probably going to change in May or June. I'm still in school, and this summer and next fall, I'm going to be traveling - interning in the summer and studying abroad during the fall semester. I'm planning to use my LJ as my blog, so my family and RL friends (and professors) know what's going on with me. The majority of people I know in RL, don't know about my fandom activities, and I'd rather them not find out. I'd like there to be a way to lock my fandom posts to *only* LJers or Dreamwidthers and leave my traveling posts public. That way, my friends and family can see my travel posts, but not the fandom ones (unless they were to decide to set up their own account - which is unlikely), while people who have me on their "watch" list but who I have not trusted back can see my fandom posts. I know that setting up a second journal is really the safest way to do this, but I also want my LJ/DW friends to be able to see my travel posts without the hassle of having to friend the extra journal and remember, "Oh, that's theladyscribe's travel journal!" (And without the hassle of me having to log-in/log-out every time I want to post something.) Also, one last thing: would it be possible to set this sort of filter up for a *community* rather than for journals? IE, someone has a fanfic community and they want it to be available for DW users but not for the public at large. - theladyscribe > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:05:01 -0500 > From: chasy <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [DW Discuss] Adding another level of security. > To: [email protected] > Cc: dw-discuss <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > The level of security it will provide for ME personally, is that the people > I know in real life are not "blog" or "journal" people so I can almost > guarantee they will not be part of the DW community. > > I don't know if this applies to anyone else but it's the reason I suggested > the feature. I have since realized that I can probably get around the LACK > of this feature by just having two unrelated journals. So if my reasons for > asking about this feature are exclusive to me, I don't see any point > (except > maybe the spider-bot issue) to even bother implementing it. :) Especially > since there seems to be a lot of potential for people to be led into a > FALSE > sense of security by such a feature. > > - Chasy. > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/pipermail/dw-discuss/attachments/20090204/e763f2f1/attachment-0001.htm > >
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