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andrewduckerThe ability to post your posts to Facebook/Twitter strikes me as useful for a certain segment of people - those that want to use their FB or Twitter as aggregation tools (which is what I do with Twitter - it gets my FB status updates and Delicious links automatically). Not everyone will use this, but it's something people already do manually, so making it part of the site sounds handy.
Posting comments to both places, on the other hand, is something that leaves me baffled. Is there _anyone_ that does this? What's the point of putting a copy of a bit of discussion on a different site? Can anyone explain how this would be useful to them?
Posting comments to both places, on the other hand, is something that leaves me baffled. Is there _anyone_ that does this? What's the point of putting a copy of a bit of discussion on a different site? Can anyone explain how this would be useful to them?
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Date: 2010-09-01 01:27 pm (UTC)(Bring back strn! And the good old days of CiX!)
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Date: 2010-09-01 01:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-02 05:04 pm (UTC)In cases where people are saying something that's not part of a particular conversation it's useful to sync things across all the social networking sites.
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Date: 2010-09-01 01:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-01 01:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-01 02:07 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-01 02:42 pm (UTC)And the first step in having a mutual arrangement, I suppose, is for at least one of them to do it ;)
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Date: 2010-09-02 08:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-01 02:47 pm (UTC)The core issue I have is that there's no way to turn this off for a journal completely. It means that someone with the auto-repost option can accidentally hint at private information, at a minimum. I think this is a deal-breaker, and a woeful lack of thoughtfulness.
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Date: 2010-09-01 04:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-01 05:13 pm (UTC)That said... if one ignores the existence of friends-locked/filtered posts, or assumes that this autopost-comments feature doesn't work for those, then I can see the point... it allows me to go "Oh look, my FB friend made a comment that intrigues me, let me track back to the original post they were commenting on.
That said, in practice I expect to see my FB page cluttered with a thousand entries reading "Yeah, me too!" and "LOL!" if this becomes popular.
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Date: 2010-09-01 07:32 pm (UTC)Rhetoric aside, yeah, there seems to be a (sadly large, IMHO) number of people who Deeply Believe that everything they have to say is so Important that it should be heard/read by everyone in the whole wide world, or (failing that) by as many people as possible.
Mind you, I wasn't far from being in that category back (say 50 or 60 years) when I was much younger, but nowadays I'm barely able to keep up with my tiny segment of LJ, and seem to be able (so far) to ignore the cryptic bits from other media that creep into it.
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Date: 2010-09-01 10:42 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-09-02 03:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-02 06:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-02 03:36 am (UTC)You know what I've mostly been doing recently? Commenting, all over the place.
It used to be I'd link and discuss, these days I just discuss. So now I can discuss, then link.
I had the twitter box checked by default, but then accidentally tweeted something stupid, so now I'll consciously check it if the comment's substantive. I've already had people reply to me on Twitter agreeing with my first comment tweet, adn that one was really badly formatted.
If I start using comment titling, this explains what I'm doing, right?
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Date: 2010-09-02 06:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-02 08:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-02 01:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-02 01:17 pm (UTC)Terms restarted, might get into a decent routine now, we'll see.
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Date: 2010-09-02 05:06 pm (UTC)Perhaps there's something unusual about how LJ are doing my configuration, but AFAICT this is an opt-in thing, so I don't quite understand what all the kerfuffle is about.
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Date: 2010-09-02 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-02 05:20 pm (UTC)It raises interesting questions about who the comment 'belongs to' and who has 'rights' to do what. People are reacting as if the comments belong to the person who made the post, but I think the correct way in how people normally think of these things of looking at it would be to say it's up to the person who makes the comment to decide if it's reposted.
OTOH I think the whole "rights of the individual" model leads to general ass-hattery, so I'd say we should think about how our actions affect other people first of all.
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Date: 2010-09-02 05:23 pm (UTC)(Not that I think that you'd do that, but the principle stands)
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Date: 2010-09-02 05:24 pm (UTC)If the issue is that it reveals that there is a flocked post that other people can't see, then you can already tell that quite easily (although it's not broadcast to the world).
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Date: 2010-09-02 05:27 pm (UTC)It seems to repost locked content.
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Date: 2010-09-02 05:32 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-02 05:35 pm (UTC)Wanna do a test run? I'll create an flocked post if you want to try it out...
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Date: 2010-09-02 05:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-02 05:38 pm (UTC)