Facilitate crossposting between personal journal and one community automatically

[firecat]

Title:
Facilitate crossposting between personal journal and one community automatically

Area:
crossposting (within DW)

Summary:
On the Post an Entry page, include a second "Post to" box with a checkbox toggle so that a post can be crossposted to another journal or community.

Description:
I often forget to crosspost entries from my journal to a relevant community I belong to, because doing so takes a few extra steps of copying and pasting the journal entry.

If there were a setting on the Post an Entry page to allow crossposting an entry to a second journal/community, traffic in communities might increase. I gather that a number of DW communities would like to increase their traffic and would consider this a good thing.

Including only one more "Post to" box will discourage people from crossposting to multiple communities at once (which some communities discourage).

An alternative would be to include a "Post to" box on the "Your entry has been posted" page. Text could say "Also post this entry to another journal or community?"

Poll #3302 Facilitate crossposting between personal journal and one community automatically

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 42

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Should be implemented as-is.
19 (45.2%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
3 (7.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
10 (23.8%)

(I have no opinion)
10 (23.8%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Comments

[sporky_rat]

I agree with this - except do it as the 'This entry has been posted, would you like to post this to another entry?' bit.

[snakeling]

+1

[eosrose]

I agree.

[feathertail]

Wouldn't crossposting spam people who are subscribed both to you and the community, though? Or is this kind of an edge case?

[kyrielle]

It does, but a lot of people do it manually in any case, especially if there is marginal (or no) overlap.

[zvi]

Yes, and it's annoying then. If it's something you can do automatically, as opposed to manually, I shudder to think at the reading page inundation.