Alexandra Leaving

I got curious enough to test the new Facebook re-post feature. My findings:

I have another account, madlenmadlen, that I originally created for my friend but she never used, so I am keeping it for my daughter. She uses it from time to time to take part in polls.

What I did in Madlenmadlen:

- I set up a Facebook connection with my Facebook account
- I checked the checkbox of "automatically re-post when I comment", switching on automatic updates.

Testing of Facebook re-post with automatic updates enabled:

Case 1: Alexandral has default Custom CSS settings and madlenmadlen has not set up style=mine.

1.1 Alexandral's public post: Facebook re-post checkbox- is defaulted to "clicked" upon commenting. When the facebook checkbox is clicked, the comment madlenmadlen made is re-posted on Facebook. When the facebook checkbox is unclicked, the comment madlenmadlen made is NOT re-posted on Facebook.

1.2 Alexandral's locked post: Facebook re-post is defaulted to "unclicked" upon commenting. When selecting to click the Facebook checkbox by hand, the comment madlenmadlen made is re-posted on Facebook. When the Facebook checkbox is unclicked, the comment madlenmadlen made is NOT re-posted on Facebook.


Case 2: Alexandral has Facebook featute disabled in Custom CSS and madlenmadlen has not set up style=mine.

1.1 Alexandral's public post: Facebook re-post is defaulted to "clicked" upon commenting and hidden. The comment madlenmadlen made is re-posted on Facebook automatically.

1.2 Alexandral's locked post: Facebook re-post checkbox is defaulted to "unclicked" and hidden. The is no way to re-post the comment onto facebook.

Case 3: Alexandral has Facebook featute disabled in Custom CSS and madlenmadlen has set up style=mine.

This is the same as the Case 1

Results

- I still dislike the feature.

- But the main problem I could see with it, namely accidental automatic re-post from protected entries , does not exist. ** sigh of relief **

- Disabling the Facebook checkbox in Custom CSS (by .b-repost-item {display:none} - thank you to jenlev!) has it's pluses and minuses. If you are not too worried about your public entries, but more worried about protecting your locked entries - the feature is for you. It can be overridden by style=mine., but still , something is better than nothing.

- It could be good if LJ manned up and removed the feature altogether

- Or at lest, if they could make so that Disabling the Facebook checkbox in Custom CSS couldn't be overridden by style=mine.

Edit: it seems that LJ removed the re-post feature for locked posts. YAY!