Only the paranoid survive...

[yakalskovich]

More and more, the entries on my f-list are f-locked; I need to log in as myself to see what is going on. Even I have been known to post entries f-locked to my "Dyskworlders" friends' group when I didn't want to spam everybody with discworld_rpg related stuff, or was being sentimental, or both.

But somehow, everybody has lately started doing that. I know about some people, but generally I wonder whether that is just something goiong around memtically, like a mental cold, or what people really are afraid of.

Also, there is that one point where the concept of "private tags" we're using at the Discworld RPG is superior to the actual f-locking: there, you can take not only whole posts, but also comments and even parts of comments private and hide them from all the other characters (while the muns read on all the more avidly). On actual LJ, I need to know somebody's email address and mail them.

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

it's bloody exclusivity, that's what it is. most my friends have it and they don't even enable me to link my other friends to their discussions. they are not afraid of anything, it's just snobbery or rather - they know all the people they want to know. i find it weirdest when they have twice as many friends as they friended, since that means their journal cannot be actually read by all those nonfriended people.

i can't even rant properly. they are doing it more and more. grrr.
and as i will have to ask in the other comment as well, what are muns. moderatingmums?

[yakalskovich]

Muns are the RL people/RL LJs behind the characters. Ethymology unknown. To someone who knows me only fleetingly from the discworld_rpg, I am Tantony-mun, or Margolotta-mun, or whichever of my characters they're referring to at the moment.

Some of it might be snobbery, yes, especially if you're some sort of minor star in fandom or think they would like to be. But I don't think that's why the people on myf-list are doing it.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_inbetween_/]

hm. not sure if i get the technics of this, but i guess it's because you own the com in equal parts that all of you, but none of your readers can see the private .. parts *snort*


sorry, expressed myself badly. bnfs hardly ever lock their journals. my friends dont do it from that kind of snobbery, it's a bad word. but the other stuff holds true. and considering that they like to be friended, but don't give anything in return ... weird. my brain is too stuffy and scared to think right. i keep asking them to undo it and tease them about it anyway.

[yakalskovich]

No, it's not a technology, it's a convention. Our readers can read, our muns can read, we just agree that characters can't read private tags unless they're addressed to them. And strikeouts, characters can't read at all.