Community Access-level OR Community Filter

[magycmyste]

Title:
Community Access-level OR Community Filter

Area:
Journal entries

Summary:
An option to allow members of a certain community to see a certain post in your journal

Description:
One thing I would like to see, if it's possible, is the ability to use a community as a filter group for certain posts.

Where I see this being useful is for writing journals, specifically, where the poster may want to open up entries to get comments and feedback from their critique communities, but may not want to add each individual member of the community to their writing journals(after all, people can easily leave or join communities, and then the access list wouldn't match anymore), and do not want to allow public access to the entries.

In my head, this would be implemented as an option under "Show this Entry To:". Perhaps each community as ticky-boxes under the custom filter?

I don't know what the issues would be for an option like this - I know it would take more coding knowhow than I have (which isn't much, so that doesn't say anything).

Poll #1565 Community Access-level OR Community Filter

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 24

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Should be implemented as-is.
8 (33.3%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
3 (12.5%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
5 (20.8%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (33.3%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[charmian]

I have to say, in this situation, why wouldn't the person simply post to the community? Otherwise, how would the community even know the post existed?

To avoid the whole security by obscurity issue, I would suggest having this not work like an access-locked post, but instead work like an NSFW post, where it would say "visible to members of XYZ community only; if you are a member of this community, login to see it"

[magycmyste]

This is an issue I had more on LJ than here on Dreamwidth, but the writing community I was a part of was not actually a critique community, though several of the members did offer critiques to each other. (I realize that there are crit-specific communities on Dreamwidth, although atm, I can't recall if they're public-entry or not - And I definitely do not want my writing entries to be completely public).

What I would like to be able to do from time to time, is post the entry in my writing journal, and mention in the community that I'm looking for critiques and link to it, rather than posting to the community. More of a: "I've been here talking about such and such story I'm writing, and I'd love it if any of you would read and give me feedback" to the community, and anyone from the community, whether or not you've friended them, could hop over and actually be able to read it and give you feedback.

[charmian]

So it was against the rules of the comm to actually post the work in the comm and get critiques there? Hmm. IMHO, I think that's a situation which would also apply to a suggestion I made, where you could have password protected posts.

[magycmyste]

not against the rules, per se.

It's just not what the community itself was there for.

I would also prefer to keep my critiques as consolidated as possible (on one post in my journal instead of two or three in my journal and different writing communities).

But that might solve the problem in a community whose posts are public...

(Although actually, I've put in the rules of my writerstorm community that it was not the place to get critiques, though I had no problem with linking back to the story/post. It's simply not the point of the community, and there are other places to get those. However, if someone from that community wanted to actually read the story, and I had linked back to it, I'd like for them to be able to read it. So that would be one example where the rules of the community bar the posting of the actual work.)

[aveleh]

I like the idea, and think it would be handy, but I also worry that people will not quite recognize that they're giving up control of that access list if they put a community on an access list.

That's more from a "Support" point of view than anything else, though, so I'm firmly in the "Should be implemented" camp.

[cesy]

Yes, so I'd support having some kind of FAQ or warning to remind people that if the comm is open, anyone can join it.

[thedivinegoat]

This

[ancientsavvy]

this.

[magycmyste]

are you talking about what cesy is saying below?

If that's true, that's an excellent point and I totally support the idea of an FAQ/warning reminding people of that.

[triadruid]

Yeah, as long as it's crystal clear what they are granting access to, it seems a fine idea.