Syndication question

[andrewducker]

[Poll #421380]

I posted a suggestion here that people should be able to turn off syndication, to find complete non-comprehension that people might want to do so.

I suspect a few people reading this might want to leave their opinions too.

Comments

[biscuitware.livejournal.com]

Seems like you opened up a whole can of worms on that discussion. I agree with you though: public journal, no RSS feeds; if someone takes the time to scrape my LJ then good effort to them - though I change my layout every 6 months (how do you like them apples!)

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Even if RSS was turned off, posts to LJ are still designed to be read by clients, which makes them nicely set up to be read by bots anyway. (A bot attempting to read an LJ's HTML gets told the proper way to do it after a few attempts.)

I suspect the powers that be think that since LJ accepts RSS feeds itself (so we can put them in our friends' pages), it'd be impolite for them to not provide them too.

It kinda makes a mockery of the "you own your journal" thing though, doesn't it?

[drjon.livejournal.com]

I think an off-option might be a good idea... but I think more important would be a facility to just tell you if your feed's being used, and who's using it...

[flickgc.livejournal.com]

Amen to that.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think Feedster might be the go for this...

(tré cool icon...)

[mirukux.livejournal.com]

imo it depends on the context; blog which has rss/atom feeds, then some bugger makes a piss take site (not satirical but nasty) that grabs and displays your feed, you can simply hack soemthing up or use an existing script to block that site's rss reader from accessing your feeds. obviously there are good reasons for other sites to be reading your feeds so i'd say it depends on the context of the situation, but on lj you just don't get a choice. if you want to control your readers and specifically keep your blog for the general lj user market then as you note you can't lock down your feeds like you can with a blog.

[laserboy.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, that's not good. I'm not comfortable with a non-LJ robot/whatever automatically duplicating what I write without me knowing about it.

So yeah, I guess I'm backing you up. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.

[whumpdotcom.livejournal.com]

By the way, that feed does not include access controlled posts.

Given that Blogger, TypePad, WordPress, Bloxsom, Bloxjom, Radio Userland, and MT all do this out of the box, I'm neither surprised or alarmed.

But I come from the evil, self-aggrandizing weblog culture.

[andrewducker]

And all of those can turn off their RSS feeds...

[derumi.livejournal.com]

It's not really a big concern to me, seeing as some of the RSS feeds we're reading, the owners probably aren't aware of, and wouldn't be happy about. 9_9

[andrewducker]

It's not a big concern to me either.

But I know it is a big concern to some...