Comment screening in another user's entry

[elizabeth_rice]

Title:
Comment screening in another user's entry

Area:
entries, comments

Summary:
Ability to screen my own comment(s) in another user's entry in a personal journal and/or community.

Description:
Each user has the ability to delete his/her own comment in another user's entry. Only the entry poster can delete, screen and freeze comments made to their entry(ies).

If I wish to share personal information that I do not want others to view, what I can currently do is to delete the comment after posting it to ensure that only the entry poster can view it. Even if I were to ask the entry poster to screen my comment, s/he will only do so when s/he reads my comment.

My suggestion is to allow each user the ability to screen his/her own comment in another user's entry(ies) made in a personal journal/community, whether the entry/journal/community is public or restricted to that user's access list or community members. This way a user can share personal information with the entry poster that s/he does not wish for others to view.

Regarding communities, perhaps some users might feel hesitant to implement this in case it creates additional problems for maintainers/moderators in case of conflict between the entry poster and other members/users. However, I know that members/users with posting access already have the ability to delete, screen and freeze all comments made to their entries in a community. So I don't believe that it would cause additional problems if users have the ability to screen their own comments.

Poll #873

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 38

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Should be implemented as-is.
9 (23.7%)

Should be implemented with changes.
7 (18.4%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
22 (57.9%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[ciaan]

Yeah, I forget about that sometimes, as I rarely track entries and as it's a hold-over behavior from before tracking was instituted.

[azurelunatic]

I don't get the hold-over behavior part.

[ciaan]

There was a time way back in the day on LJ before you could track entries. Wasn't there? I seem to remember the feature being introduced. Or maybe I am confused. It is one of the things I think of as a spiff new feature, but possibly it just took me a bit to learn about it. Those days of ten icons for paid accounts are so ancient and fuzzy now.

[azurelunatic]

ahhhh, the "comment-and-delete" as holdover behavior, not the "tracking can also email". That makes much more sense.

[ciaan]

Yes, yes, apparently my "it" was ambiguous. :)

[sofiaviolet]

I assume that ciaan means that, before tracking and the possibility that someone other than the OP could receive comments via email, leaving a comment and then deleting it was considered quite safe, since it would only be emailed to the OP and wouldn't be visible for very long before the commenter deleted it.

[ciaan]

Yes, that is exactly what I meant. :)