Don't display unnecessary tag vs. crosspost warnings

[azurelunatic]

Title:
Don't display unnecessary tag vs. crosspost warnings

Area:
crossposting, tags, the little things that irk us

Summary:
If there's no chance that a given entry would or could be crossposted, ever, (or if we can't crosspost it), don't warn us that it won't be crossposted when editing tags.

Description:
The edit tags on an entry page (http://www.dreamwidth.org/edittags?journal=username&itemid=####) warns us:

"This will not respect your default crosspost settings. Your crossposted entries will not be updated. If this is important to you, edit this entry directly to add the tags."

This warning is only appropriate in your own personal journal (at least at the moment). It is not currently (or perhaps ever) relevant:

* on your community entry
* on someone else's entry
* on someone else's community entry

Suggested implementation: It looks* like that phrase is part of the edittags.intro string, so if it is, then edittags.intro should probably be split into something like edittags.intro and edittags.crosspost, and then edittags.crosspost only displayed if it's at all possible to crosspost.

Since it appears* that this page is still using BML, this could either be done on its own if someone feels like it, or rolled into the conversion of the page to TT.


* There's a BML error on the page, so I can't be sure, see http://www.dreamwidth.org/support/see_request?id=6107 if you have the curiosity about that. (Two notes, one foot! How about that!)

Poll #2786 Don't display unnecessary tag vs. crosspost warnings

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 32

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Should be implemented as-is.
22 (68.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
8 (25.0%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (6.2%)

Comments

[kerravonsen]

Actually, what I would prefer is that editing tags does work with crossposting!

[azurelunatic]

I wonder if that's a separate suggestion already.

[ex_pseudonym472]

+1 to this. I never use the edit tags page because all of my content is syndicated to LJ.

[cheyinka]

I suppose the message could be rephrased if you're editing someone else's entry, such that it won't affect the entry if it's crossposted somewhere else, since that seems like it's still useful information.

For communities, though, it's not useful information at all.

[ninetydegrees]

yvi's already filed this as a bug.

P.S. And the intro string is independent from the xposted ones.

[azurelunatic]

The conversation that Yvi and I had last night about that was sort of hilarious. First I submitted the suggestion, then I submitted the support ticket about the error on the page, then she checked in that bug, then I told her about the suggestion, we had a good laugh, then she filed the bug from my support ticket.

[yvi]

And I didn't even notice the crosspost thing because of your support request: I wanted to add a tag to an entry in runners and was like "um, community posts can't be crossposted! why is this here?"