I'm not going anywhere either, though I do have DW account I'll use keeping tabs with those in my f-list who decided to leave LJ. I'm starting to get the feeling it's all blown out of propositon and some of the stuff people are saying make me think there's paranoia at work.
On the other hand I do understand as this is a privacy issue and even though it's not an issue with me (at least atm it isn't) there are others who'd rather not have their LJ associated with Facebook in particular. Apparently Facebook sends bots into its users' personal email accounts, gets all the addresses it can find, matches them up and alerts people to each other's presence, without their knowledge or consent. People are afraid that now that Facebook has access to LiveJournal these bots do the same with LJ accounts and start sending inivitatons at Facebook to come check out a particular LJ.
Then, a word of warning about using code to hide the ticky-boxes:
1. This will only hide those boxes if they are looking at your journal in your style. If they've set things to style=mine, they'll see the boxes.
2. If anyone links their LJ to their FB account, those boxes will be automatically checked when they reply to a public post. And, thanks to your code, they cannot see the boxes to uncheck them. Which means that their comments will now be cross-posted, completely unintentionally and totally contrary to your wishes and plans.
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Date: 2010-09-08 07:56 am (UTC)On the other hand I do understand as this is a privacy issue and even though it's not an issue with me (at least atm it isn't) there are others who'd rather not have their LJ associated with Facebook in particular. Apparently Facebook sends bots into its users' personal email accounts, gets all the addresses it can find, matches them up and alerts people to each other's presence, without their knowledge or consent. People are afraid that now that Facebook has access to LiveJournal these bots do the same with LJ accounts and start sending inivitatons at Facebook to come check out a particular LJ.
Then, a word of warning about using code to hide the ticky-boxes:
1. This will only hide those boxes if they are looking at your journal in your style. If they've set things to style=mine, they'll see the boxes.
2. If anyone links their LJ to their FB account, those boxes will be automatically checked when they reply to a public post. And, thanks to your code, they cannot see the boxes to uncheck them. Which means that their comments will now be cross-posted, completely unintentionally and totally contrary to your wishes and plans.