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

[woelfle.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I notice the phenomenon too.

I have been locking a precious few posts, and while I'm always slightly paranoid anyway that RL people whom I don't want to will read my LJ, I try to ignore that threat and post away freely. Whenever I want to be sure I want to keep it away from them, I'll lock. Or sometimes, when I want to pass along a private message to one special person.

How doeas this pricatising of comments work? It would definitely come in handy because sometimes you get private in comments to a post you'd still like to stay public..

[yakalskovich]

Oh, as I explained to _inbetween_ somewhere here in this mess, the "private tags" are an agreement, not a technology. They are fictional, but I wish they would exist.

The one thing I don't want to have to explain to RL people is the RPG. Apart from where a) they're not at all interested and b) the explanation of "Open Source Storytelling" is enough for almost everyone to turn them back. So really, I don't bother very much.