Heads up: more bad behavior from LJ

[feuervogel]

They are adding your location to all comments with IP logging on. Retroactively. (release notes) This is much more accurate than plugging it into a reverse IP site, reportedly.

If you (on LJ) log IP and are not among the subset of people I want knowing my address, I won't be commenting any more. I'll also be checking to see if I have that turned on (only for anonymous, I think) and turn it off if I do.

Slowly, LJ gives me more reason to consider shutting down.

ETA: They're rolling back the changes in response to the comments on the release post. Thank fuck.

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[luckykitty.livejournal.com]

SUP seriously sucks. I use IP Logging for anons because of trolls and spammers. I ... can't even remotely imagine a situation where I would *want* to know the locations of my user-commenters automatically. If they want to provide it great.

I seriously wonder about these guys sometimes because it's like they develop features nobody wants and implement things without any kind of userbase test/surveying to see if anyone really even wants it.

I miss the old BradFitz days. LJ hasn't been the same since then. I'd like to move more and more, but my friends are here, and I've got some who absolutely refuse to use Dreamwidth.