And what was she wearing and what did he say

[venta]

For a number of years now - despite all my posts being public - you lot have been assiduously not crossposting them to Twitter, Facebook and similar sites.

I assume that this is because you don't want to and/or you think it's inappropriate, not that you've been confounded until now by the lack of an appropriate tickybox.

Comments

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Thank you for
a) making me laugh
b) saying very well what I've been wanting to say
(although I do occasionally make locked posts, usually because I'm talking about work and it seems polite)

[ebee.livejournal.com]

'kobold' the author of SomPos wrote a GREAT post on it..

[beckyl.livejournal.com]

Don't you know everyone anyway? So they'll all see it when they check your journal, as they regularly do, of course! Such is all the justification I feel I need for continuing with my sheer laziness in popularising the Wisdom of Venta to the world...

[d-floorlandmine.livejournal.com]

It's New Model Army. But I'm listening to the limited edition extended release of Invaders Must Die, so I'm somewhat unable to think right now, and therefore can't remember the sodding track title. Even though I can hear that blasted line in my head ... it's an early-to-middling one, though, I think. Bah. That's going to bug me all day.

Oh, hang on ... it's Better Than Them - just came to me as my mental player managed to jump the skip in the track and keep going to where the title's mentioned.

[emarkienna.livejournal.com]

Yes, I guess I agree that (a) it's a stupid feature and (b) I've felt no need to tell people not to use it on their comments on my LJ.

Though I think it's still conceivable that, had there not been people posting their dislike of this feature, people might take advantage of a new feature that makes crossposting easier, when before it was too much hassle (I've noticed a general trend in increase of crossposting between LJ-clones, Twitter, Facebook that comes as a result of clients, when people hadn't been doing this manually before) - without thinking of the implications, or feeling that they have "ownership" over their comments without realising why this feature might cause problems for others. I could have seen a situation where it happens, and someone pleads "But I was only using LJ's feature, I didn't realise it would be a problem", so I guess people are just explicitly saying upfront that they don't like it.

There's also a risk of doing so accidentally, due to the bad UI decision of changing the alt-tab order, and enabling it simply as a ticky box before the Post button.

The other side of this (which I haven't seen people mention so much) is that on Facebook, I have no desire to see my news feed flooded with out of context comment spam on discussions I have no interest in or can't take part in. If I want to follow comments, we can do that with Notification.

I'm waiting for Facebook to retaliate with a "crosspost to LJ" feature, then we'll wake up and see our friends pages 90% full of Farmville updates...

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Well I've not been telling bods not to use it, merely reassuring that I won't be using it.

However, it must be said that my friends page is regularly spammed with twitter crossposting; uncalled for, out of context, half conversations of about as much use and interest as dropping random comments from LJ into Facebook would be. People do this for no other reason (it seems) than that the option is there and it's easy. So I can't entirely be trusting that people I otherwise like wouldn't think this new feature equally appealing - thus I am grateful for the wave of bile against it.