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

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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

[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.)