Ability to link tags to access filters

[hatman]

Title:
Ability to link tags to access filters

Area:
Tags, posting, access filters, importing journals

Summary:
Automated process that locks all entries tagged with "FOO" to the "FOO" access filter. Perhaps also the reverse - tagging all "FOO"-filtered entries with the "FOO" tag.

Description:
Many access filters are tied to a specific subject - something only certain people are interested in or allowed to know about. Entries tied to a specific subject often have an associated tag. It would be nice to have the option to bring those two things together, so that entries tagged with "FOO" are automatically access-locked to the "FOO" filter, and/or entries locked to the "FOO" filter are automatically given the "FOO" tag.

Mostly, it's for convenience - one less step when you post, and a backup in case you forget to add a tag or lock a post. Just a little thing to make posting a shade simpler.

Which brings up the one drawback I can see - it may be more work to implement that it's worth.

However there is a larger application for those who wish to import entries from multiple journals - or there would be if the importer had the ability to automatically tag entries. Which is a whole other suggestion.

Poll #1810 Ability to link tags to access filters

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 30

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Should be implemented as-is.
14 (46.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (6.7%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
3 (10.0%)

(I have no opinion)
10 (33.3%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (3.3%)

Comments

[healingmirth]

I'm not sure what it is about this suggestion that makes me want to say no. I'm hovering over the with-changes button, but I can't really spell out what I'd like those changes to be.

I know it says option, and ability to, so people could just not use it if it is implemented as an option, but I can imagine any number of instances where I'd have a tag tied to a filter and then want to use it for a different filter or a public entry (which many people might not do because of tag-viewing security things)...

I guess I want some more thinking about how it could be implemented before expressing an opinion. Such as: does it only run the check once, when posting a new entry? If you edit the security level or change tags later, what happens?

I do like (and can't think of an objection to) reverse that you mention - an option to apply a tag when a filter is used. I don't know who can access the /security/group:FOO type URL filter on other journals (is that a paid feature on Dreamwidth?) so that tag could be a useful tool for users to provide to their access list if they wish to

[lassarina]

I would love an option to say that every time I filter something as x group, to tag with y tag. A+.

[triadruid]

I like that part of it. The other seems to be too prone to accidental error right now.

[ciaan]

I think this could be useful, but I would very much want it to be an option only - since honestly, there are times when I filter something and don't want people to know that I've filtered it (and other times when I really do want them to know I've filtered it). I can also see how it would run into major problems with crossposting, since if I also sent the entry to LJ, LJ wouldn't have the same feature, and thus if all I'd done was tag it and rely on DW to then filter it... it would be less secure on LJ.