suggestion about crossposting from communities

[wounded_melody]

Title:
suggestion about crossposting from communities

Area:
crossposting

Summary:
If someone is not using crossposting from their personal journal, allow them to use crossposting with one of the communities they run.

Description:
If someone is not using crossposting from their personal journal, allow them to use crossposting with one of the communities they run. I know I personally would like to crosspost from my dw community to a community on lj, but I have no need to crosspost from my personal journal. This choice would be a great help to many people I believe.

Poll #1677 suggestion about crossposting from communities

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 26

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Should be implemented as-is.
9 (34.6%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (7.7%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
4 (15.4%)

(I have no opinion)
7 (26.9%)

(Other: please comment)
4 (15.4%)

Comments

[yvi]

I am confused by what you wrote: Do you want this to be only possible for communities you maintain? If so, on DW or LJ?

I think crossposing to a community you maintain on DW / a personal journal on LJ might be possible (and I would vote for that), but Dreamwidth has no way of determining whether you are an admin for a community on LJ, as far as I know (I think at this point we can't even determine whether an account is a community)?

Sorry if this comes across confused...

[cesy]

I would love to have the ability to cross-post to a community on LJ. I'm not so sure about cross-posting to a community you maintain on DW, as that is likely to produce a load of extra duplicate posts on my reading page.

Is there any way we can find out who has admin or posting ability from the data feeds of the profile that foxfirefey's been playing with? FOAF or something?

Alternatively, presumably if you try to post to a community where you don't have posting access, you get an error. How do clients do it? Can Dreamwidth's crossposter do the same thing?

[wounded_melody]

Yes, I meant that whatever I post to my community on DW would also be posted on the community I run on LJ.

[charmian]

Why only the communities they run? (run=admin?)

[wounded_melody]

Just because I need to have posts show up in both my DW and LJ communities. You could suggest that there be posting to comms you don't run...

[justhuman]

I sometimes have the need to put the same post on multiple DW and LJ comms. Having the ability to crosspost to communities would be fabulous regardless if you are the admin or not.

Since crossposting is a paid feature, in that you can crosspost more if you have a paid account, I don't know where the balance point is. Also, I see the huge potential that a feature like this could have for generating SPAM. I think that more discussion needs to happen about crossposting to communities.

[cesy]

From what I remember of a previous similar discussion, there was a lot of resistance to making it easy to cross-post to other communities on the same site, because then you just get identical posts spammed, as you say. Communities usually have slightly different purposes and standard formats, so it's good to encourage people to tailor their entries, though obviously people can work round that.

However, being able to crosspost to a mirror community on LJ would be very useful. (For examples of people doing this manually, see metafandom or sg_five_things.)

[wounded_melody]

Yes, "mirror community" is exactly what I was thinking of! Some lj users just don't want to/don't have a code to join DW and instead of using open ID they'd rather visit the mirror LJ comm. Hopefully it would change their mind though :)

[triadruid]

Going from equivalent LJ community to equivalent DW community sounds great.

Crossposting intrasite? Not so much.

[wounded_melody]

>Going from equivalent LJ community to equivalent DW community sounds great.<

That's what I really really really want (please???)!

[lassarina]

Or, one use I would use it for is that I have a community on Dreamwidth for my fiction, but a personal LJ for the same. Currently I crosspost to them manually. It'd be crazy neat if I could say "every time I post to rose_in_winter please post the same thing to athyn.

But I suspect I am a weird and small use-case and that it might not be a good use of dev time.

[wounded_melody]

Why not the ability to post from any of your DW journals or communities to any of your lj journals or communities? I know it was mentioned just how DW would know if you really run the lj comm you want to crosspost too...maybe require that you enter the password for both? XD

[yvi]

Communities on Livejournal don't have passwords anymore and communities on Dreamwidth and Insanejournal (?) never had (though of course here we can just check whether someone is an admin).

[justhuman]

I agree with the tailoring the post per community, but I find that I post fic in identical ways to most communities. There are legitimate reasons beyond mirror communities.

Hell, it would be helpful if I could recall my last post as a draft and then tailor it to post to the next community. Even if I did it one at a time it would save me a bunch of manual work.

[yourlibrarian]

I'd love to be able to crosspost to communities either on DW or LJ and IJ. And I'm not sure why it would matter if I were an admin. Presumably if it's a closed community one has no membership to, one couldn't make that post.