it's when I do lock a post for whatever reason - that's when I have to re-evaluate who on my friends list can see them
"Doctor, it hurts when I do this." "Stop doing it. Also, stop doing it somewhere else."
My point is that the first change is all that's necessary.
This isn't something that offends me; I just wanted to point out that this doesn't universalize well (i.e. if everybody decided to do it); moreover, you're not the first person whose LJ I read who's moved their primary journalling off of LJ, so my "20 people" comment was not entirely idle. (Henceforth I will refer to "moving one's primary journalling off of LJ" as "moving one's journal off LJ", as I did in my previous post.)
Obviously, it's up to you to do what you will, but I think you overestimate the willingness of most people to read lots of isolated journals. (Then again, maybe I underestimate it. I don't know whether your example of journals you read and bookmark are personal, social journals, or you're just talking about the big, high-publicity blogs. As the various bloggers pointed out in the power curve discussion, readership for the average journal is better on LJ because of the communal, social effect.)
This comment is an oversimplification:
please don't be jumpy about "having to" add another bookmark. If you don't want to, don't.
The reality here is that I want to read what you have to write. But I know (from experience) that the mechanism you propose for me reading what you write is inconvenient. Now, you can say, "well, if you don't want to read what I write if it's just a tiny bit inconvenient, then you obviously don't really want to read what I write", but my point is that that "little bit of inconvenience" adds up hideously when a lot of people do it. It's no longer a "little bit of inconvenience", but a massive inconvenience.
If your goal is to raise the bar necessary to read your journal, so that fewer people will do so, then fine, since that seems to me to be the main actual consequence of moving your journal off LJ. But that's not a motivation you've ever listed. ("I like hosting my blog on my own server space" is certainly another real, significant consequence, but you seemed to have tossed that on as a minor thing.)
Anyway, since I have no clue what actual/potential psychodrama you may or may not have confronted or being facing confronting--nor do I expect you to explain--you can have the last word and I will drop the subject.
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"Doctor, it hurts when I do this." "Stop doing it. Also, stop doing it somewhere else."
My point is that the first change is all that's necessary.
This isn't something that offends me; I just wanted to point out that this doesn't universalize well (i.e. if everybody decided to do it); moreover, you're not the first person whose LJ I read who's moved their primary journalling off of LJ, so my "20 people" comment was not entirely idle. (Henceforth I will refer to "moving one's primary journalling off of LJ" as "moving one's journal off LJ", as I did in my previous post.)
Obviously, it's up to you to do what you will, but I think you overestimate the willingness of most people to read lots of isolated journals. (Then again, maybe I underestimate it. I don't know whether your example of journals you read and bookmark are personal, social journals, or you're just talking about the big, high-publicity blogs. As the various bloggers pointed out in the power curve discussion, readership for the average journal is better on LJ because of the communal, social effect.)
This comment is an oversimplification:
The reality here is that I want to read what you have to write. But I know (from experience) that the mechanism you propose for me reading what you write is inconvenient. Now, you can say, "well, if you don't want to read what I write if it's just a tiny bit inconvenient, then you obviously don't really want to read what I write", but my point is that that "little bit of inconvenience" adds up hideously when a lot of people do it. It's no longer a "little bit of inconvenience", but a massive inconvenience.
If your goal is to raise the bar necessary to read your journal, so that fewer people will do so, then fine, since that seems to me to be the main actual consequence of moving your journal off LJ. But that's not a motivation you've ever listed. ("I like hosting my blog on my own server space" is certainly another real, significant consequence, but you seemed to have tossed that on as a minor thing.)
Anyway, since I have no clue what actual/potential psychodrama you may or may not have confronted or being facing confronting--nor do I expect you to explain--you can have the last word and I will drop the subject.