On Wed, 11 Feb 2009, Shelly wrote: > You may already be doing this, but if not: Would it be difficult to > allow a moderator/maintainer to lock individual posts within her > community so there can be no more comments? LJ allows freezing of > individual comments, but not of posts. On most other BBS systems a mod > has the ability to close a post down so it stands but can't be added > to. It's a way of allowing free discourse, but not to the point of > beating a dead horse. > > Now that I think about it, I don't believe you can do this on individual > LJs either.
You can't. And I wish you could. +1 (x10e) There have been many times I've disabled comments on a post (and lost them all, either temporarily or permanently) when what I really wanted to do was just temporarily or permanently stop further commenting. This would be really useful to people whose journals get picked up by metafandom or fandom_wank without their knowledge and find three days after they've posted something, discussed it with a small group of people and are on to something else that there is now a storm brewing, but they are at work and they just can't deal with it right now or don't want to deal with it. They don't necessarily want to lose the conversations that were already there with their friendslist, and they don't particularly want to lock the post because someone from outside the list may have been commenting, but now things are snowballing and their current choices are lock the post or turn off comments. There needs to be a way to say "enough already" quickly and easily. **************************************************************** 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
