Comments on: Quick note to LJers (Updated)

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:48:27 +0000

Yes, thanks Josh – after whinging I then went and looked at my friends page (I actually use a different RSS reader to read my LJ friends rather than the other way round) and noticed the link now. So probably the only way to post a comment on the feed entry is from your friends page direct.
Oh well, people will continue to do so…

Yay LiveJournal for new Justine fans

By: josh

josh — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 16:37:27 +0000

Actually, there’s a link to the original location before the body of the post on rss feeds on lj. It’s really just a matter of thinking “hey, I wonder what this link is all about?” and clicking on it once. Whether the lj-specific comment link is above or below the link to the original location depends on the page style the LJ user has selected. On most styles the lj comment link is below and much smaller than the main link.

Of course, not all justine-lj interaction goes wrong. I first found this blog when someone on LJ posted a link to justine’s “How to write a novel” post. I didn’t even know who she was at the time, but I kept reading because I liked what she had to say. Then I read both the Magic or Madness books and I’m hooked. Anxiously awaiting Magic’s Child now. All thanks to livejournal.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 07:56:21 +0000

Anyone who tells you off for not replying to comments on your LJ feed is an idiot.
I regularly attempt to stop people posting comments on the LJ feed for my blog, but people will continue to get the wrong idea. It’s a stupid implementation of feed reading by LiveGerbil. They should just show the post or an excerpt, but link it to the original location of the post, so people will comment there (if they can).

By: Justine

Justine — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:33:29 +0000

And future historians beam.

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:29:32 +0000

i know! i save all my emails, and when i found out that yahoo had deactivated one of my old accounts, i was so mad, ’cause i hadn’t finished backing it all up yet. i still have every notebook i ever owned since childhood and all the drafts of everything i’ve written. i even save schoolwork.

By: Justine

Justine — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 02:21:19 +0000

That’s horrible! But then I get upset by people who don’t save all their emails. “What about future historians?!” I scream at them. “You’re stealing from history!”

By: Rebecca

Rebecca — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:45:19 +0000

“it goes deeply against my grain to write words that will disappear”

my grandmother once threw away whole diaries that she’d written. i nearly died.

By: Justine

Justine — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:17:42 +0000

Thanks, Josh!

To reiterate the lj feed has absolutely nothing to do with me. I did not set it up.

By: josh

josh — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 22:28:11 +0000

anghara, syndicated feeds on LJ such as Justine’s blog can’t be configured at all. LJ lets you add syndicated RSS feeds as a convenience but they’re not actually LJ accounts. It seems that the comment option is always there by default. All it’s really useful for is discussing the post with other LJ users. Justine doesn’t have any control over the comment option since she’s not actually using a livejournal account. The fault, if there is one at all, lies with lj.

By: nalo

nalo — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:02:10 +0000

My solution was to put up only one post on my LJ (well, two, when I was protesting their breastfeeding pic boycott). The post basically says that I don’t post there, and people should go to my blog: http://nnaloh.livejournal.com/

p.s. I can totally believe that someone called you “bad” and “rude.”

By: anghara

anghara — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 19:34:43 +0000

If you wanted to avoid the problem you could always set turn off the comment option on your LJ – thereby making people, if they wanted to comment on something you said, actually click on the feed URL and coming over here to do it.

Um, that is to say, now I”m not sure – can you fiddle with LJ setup when it’s being used as a “feed mechanism” rather than an actual journal…? Someone more versed in the techie magic than I will know…

By: jennifer, aka literaticat

jennifer, aka literaticat — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:59:41 +0000

did someone actually call you “bad” and “rude”?

if you need someone to vouch for your goodness and politeness, i’ve got your back.