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On asking permission to link
28 May 2014 04:10 pmA friend asked on the book of faces why some people on livejournal ask for permission to link/share on twitter/facebook, because "everything on the internet is public," so you should assume that people will link to your public content, and if you don't want to be linked, flock everything.
I said that an LJ/DW is semi-private/semi-public, with a generally known audience of a certain size, and linking widely opens the discussion to people who don't necessarily know the OP and can lead to harassment. Also some folks don't have the time or mental energy to dedicate to moderating a contentious comment section. Or they're just done talking about the subject and don't want to anymore.
He's got a few more questions based on my responses.
1. How often does this security by obscurity approach tend to leak in practice?
2. Who is your intended audience for public posts?
3. What steps do you take to make these social norms about linking known to visitors accustomed to the rather different norms that prevail in places like Twitter, Tumblr, and the traditional hyperlinked web?
Discuss. And, yes, feel free to link.
I said that an LJ/DW is semi-private/semi-public, with a generally known audience of a certain size, and linking widely opens the discussion to people who don't necessarily know the OP and can lead to harassment. Also some folks don't have the time or mental energy to dedicate to moderating a contentious comment section. Or they're just done talking about the subject and don't want to anymore.
He's got a few more questions based on my responses.
1. How often does this security by obscurity approach tend to leak in practice?
2. Who is your intended audience for public posts?
3. What steps do you take to make these social norms about linking known to visitors accustomed to the rather different norms that prevail in places like Twitter, Tumblr, and the traditional hyperlinked web?
Discuss. And, yes, feel free to link.
