LJ idiocies -- cross-posting to "all your privacy are belong to us" fora

[julesjones]

I don't have a Facebook account, and I very much wish it to stay that way, because of their "all your privacy are belong to us" attitude. I will regard the cross-posting of comments to locked threads to Facebook and Twitter in the same way that I regard any other cross-posting of comments, manual or otherwise -- if it's in a locked post, it should stay there, and malicious breaches of that are liable to result in access to locked posts being removed. "Malicious breaches" because most of us have been clueless at one time or another, and yes, that includes me. Quoting large chunks of the original post or someone else's comment in your cross-post will shift the default assumption away from "clueless" towards "malicious".

I have Dreamwidth invite codes available.

Edited to add a significant factor in why I am annoyed with LJ -- it appears that this shiny new feature cross-posts the subject line of the original post to Facebook, even for locked posts. Sometimes the original subject line is in and of itself something which the owner wishes to stay locked to flist.

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[sallymn.livejournal.com]

As a person from another country, I'm not welcome at Dreamwidth, so am feeling a little bereft...

Ah well, it was nice while it lasted.

[julesjones]

I'm not leaving LJ, precisely because some of my friends are not comfortable with Dreamwidth. But because I'm not leaving LJ, I am going to spell out where my boundaries are on the latest annoyance.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Fair enough, and I apologise for spreading my woe (which came on the top of a remarkably stressful day, familywise) onto you without justification.

Will try very hard not to ever again... I don't spit the dummy often, and usually regret it all too soon.