My two cents on Facebook/Twitter repost feature

[alexandral]

Hee, may be am quite late with this , but I could not resist:

LJ appeared to go ahead with a new "very helpful" feature of being able to re-post your comments (in any entry, it appears, locked or not) to Facebook and Twitter.

1. I haven't tested this myself, so I am not 100% sure if the re-posting comments from locked entries work. I have seen posts from people who tried to do so and succeeded , but I am not 100% sure. I am sorry - as a part of my job I do a little bit of computer systems support and my initial reaction to anything is always to double-check it. But let's assume that this works.

2. I don't see any immediate huge difference between ability of anyone who has malicious intent and has access to my locked entries to copy-and-paste and ability to re-post on Facebook/Twitter.

3. The only difference is that this can happen accidentally. Which is hugely possible with the "automatically re-post" checkbox being clicked. Which is a problem indeed.

4. This is just me, everyone is different: I am hugely paranoid and the thought of posting something on the Internet that I can’t openly express in RL makes me very very uncomfortable , regardless private or locked status of the post. I personally never do this - whatever you see in my LJ is what I also talk about with my family and friends and work colleagues. These are databases! They can be broken into by evil Russian programmers! They can be sold to evil advertising agencies! Even if the management now is good, the management can be bad tomorrow and – NOTHING ever gets deleted or removed from databases! For this they have archives!

I lock my personal posts as a first-line prevention measure against idiots, but I have no illusions : I am quite positive that nothing will work against really determined individuals.

4. This is my opinion and my only and I do not think it is universally right or anything, but I just have it:
I do not like some things about Dreamwidth. I do not like the way every time anything happens on LJ there are big posts on Dreamwidth from Dreamwidth’s management/creators of "look how bad LJ is!!!!!!!". I don’t like this attitude and I haven’t seen this happening much on LJ.

In short: LJ, please remove this stupid feature because it can cause accidental damage. But I am not moving and I am thinking about deleting my DW account.

Comments

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

Stumbled across this while flist wandering. Go to "customize Journal Style" page.

In the box titled "custom stylesheet" (should be the third one down) type this: .b-repost-item {display:none}


I gather it's working for most people. What it does is remove the twitter and facebook buttons from the bottom of the comment page which hopefully will eliminate any accidents and help out a bit. I hope so....after I applied it those buttons simply vanished from my screens. And in the journals where other people known to me have applied it, the buttons don't appear when I comment in their journals. I hope this helps. *hugs*

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

Oh, fantastic! I knew there must be a way around this.

Thank you so so much dear, i am going to try this.

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

I'll check back in to see if the buttons go away then? :)

[alexandral.livejournal.com]

YAY! They sure did. I wonder if this gets rid of automatic setting, though, if someone already has it.

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

Yay!!! I think it does, but I'm not sure. :)