Allow empty entries

[syderia]

Title:
Allow empty entries

Area:
entries

Summary:
What it says in the title.

Description:
Currently, DreamWidth stops you from posting an empty entry. It sorts of makes sense, since this is a blogging site, but there are a few circumstances in which one might wish to post an empty entry.

Case in point, I make a list of all books and movies that I read/watch during the year. I haven't watch any movies yet, but I wanted to create the entry so I could put the updated link for 2011 in the sidebar.

I think it might be better to get an error message notifying the poster that the entry is empty and asking if they want to proceed with it any way.

Poll #5579 Allow empty entries

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 89

View Respondents

This suggestion:

View Answers

Should be implemented as-is.
13 (14.6%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
1 (1.1%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
54 (60.7%)

(I have no opinion)
19 (21.3%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.1%)

Comments

[syderia]

That's why I posted the suggestion.
Actually implementing it would just save maybe a few seconds (and the moment of exasperation you get when something doesn't work the way you imagined it to work, even for a good reason) - at least the way I would use it - but I wanted to see if other people would be interested in this behavior (or give reasons why it shouldn't be done.

I check the bow so the entry will not appear on my reading page when I post it, but I can understand blank posts being confusing.