Yeah, the whole backdating thing isn't applicable to me, either, since I never use it - at least, not anymore.
I used to use it it under just two circumstances on LJ; 1) when I was manually restoring a deleted journal, or 2) when I was manually restoring a deleted post (oh, and I used to use it for Sticky Posts, too, but I don't use Stickys anymore, so that's no longer an excuse to break out the backdating).
I don't like to delete comments, so when comments would get too out-of-control (admittedly I'm too hot-headed to be a good ringmaster under those circumstances), I was more comfortable just deleting the post they were attached to, then restoring the post after whatever brouhaha occurred finally calmed down. Comments? Automatically gone, forever.
Otherwise, backdating is not a "feature" I touch. If I don't want a post on the Latest Things page, I know I can just make it private, access-list, or subscriber-list only, then change the security just five minutes later and it will never display on Latest Things. Which is a good thing to know. :)
I also know that if I'm really worried about not wanting a post to show up on the Latest Things page, all I have to do is lock the post down to one of the security levels mentioned in the last paragraph.
Given that, I don't see why people expect backdating to eliminate Latest Things display of their posts when backdating was not designed to stop that - it was designed to backdate things, period.
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I used to use it it under just two circumstances on LJ; 1) when I was manually restoring a deleted journal, or 2) when I was manually restoring a deleted post (oh, and I used to use it for Sticky Posts, too, but I don't use Stickys anymore, so that's no longer an excuse to break out the backdating).
I don't like to delete comments, so when comments would get too out-of-control (admittedly I'm too hot-headed to be a good ringmaster under those circumstances), I was more comfortable just deleting the post they were attached to, then restoring the post after whatever brouhaha occurred finally calmed down. Comments? Automatically gone, forever.
Otherwise, backdating is not a "feature" I touch. If I don't want a post on the Latest Things page, I know I can just make it private, access-list, or subscriber-list only, then change the security just five minutes later and it will never display on Latest Things. Which is a good thing to know. :)
I also know that if I'm really worried about not wanting a post to show up on the Latest Things page, all I have to do is lock the post down to one of the security levels mentioned in the last paragraph.
Given that, I don't see why people expect backdating to eliminate Latest Things display of their posts when backdating was not designed to stop that - it was designed to backdate things, period.