FYI on Facebook, Twitter, et al

[lolmac]

Let us all thank the marvelous kirsty841 , who pointed me towards the code to turn off the damned ticky boxes for cross-posting comments to Twitter and Facebook.

I have used it to turn off the feature in my own journal, and in all the comms I moderate, including this one and the fic_rush_48  comm.  Also rda_daily  and macgyverdeleted .

If anyone is actually displeased by this -- you wanted to be able to cross-post -- well, PM me and we'll talk.  But with any of the comms, you'll have to talk very convincingly.  Each of us has to make our own decisions about privacy and public exposure, but I don't feel that any of us has the right to make that decision for others.  As far as I'm concerned, if a post in a comm is cross-posted, that exposes everyone in the comm, and the others didn't have a say in the decision of the cross-poster.

Okay, <end> soapbox mode.

I'll post the results of the poll to pick our next 'rush weekend later today.  I will, of course, cross-post it to Facebook, Twitter, National Geographic, and assorted tabloids, as well as chiseling it onto a monolith on the surface of Mars.  But only if everyone who's ever posted to the comm agrees retroactively, after having taken a ride back in time to leave their decision in a time capsule in my bottom desk drawer.

*checks drawer*

Nope, nothing.  Oh, well.

Comments

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

So how do you turn off the tickyboxes? The other person I asked has not gotten back to me yet... (I'm one of those people who keeps LJ totally separate from RL.)

[lolmac]

Here's the post with the instructions:

http://lupinity87.livejournal.com/9308.html

Blissfully easy and quick to do!

[curuchamion.livejournal.com]

Squee! *casts out the plague of tickyboxes into the outer darkness where there will be wailing and grinding of... um, corners?*

*goes to quietly spread good tidings of great joy among flist*

(Yes, I'm a bit cracked out tonight. Donating blood apparently does that to me. Better than fainting or getting a migraine - I wonder if I have any crackfic bunnies hanging around? *g*)

[lolmac]

Ah, the remarkable effect of endorhpins! Yay! Crack away. Enjoy the craic, while you're at it.

[pitry.livejournal.com]

brilliant, cheers!

[clocketpatch]

YAY YAY YAY! *goes about spreading the good coding*

[lolmac]

Hallelujah! Kiss the screen!

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Thank you for doing this. I've always considered fc_rush a safe place, and it's nice to know that steps are being taken to try to keep it that way.

Thanks also for the link below to lupinity87's instructions on how to get rid of the tickyboxes. I've added the code to my own LJ, and even though it's not a complete guard against cross-posting (for example, I doubt it affects a default "always crosspost" setting), I feel better.

[dbskyler.livejournal.com]

Um, that should read "I've always considered fic_rush a safe place" . . . not sure what happened there!

(But see how easy it is to click the wrong thing on the internet?)

[lolmac]

What? Something on the internet is WRONG?!?!?!?!?

[lothithil.livejournal.com]

Brilliant! :D

[infiniteviking]

*applauds this post*

[primsong.livejournal.com]

Iz happy with this.