FWIW, I voted "no opinion;" I might change that to "implemented-as-is." I can't quite bring myself to vote for something that makes me squirmy, but I won't vote against something if I can't figure out any reasons it'd cause problems.
I expect there would be wank, because mygods, there has been wank about the fonts used on "friends only" banners; there is no setting or feature so innocuous it cannot inspire wank. I expect the wank would be tiny and erratic, like wank about "friends only" banners. Potential wank is no reason not to have this listed on profile pages. Especially as small and pointless as the wank would be.
Knowing someone was/was not Google searchable would change how I commented in some journals; it would probably let me relax & post more in public posts that weren't searchable. In that sense, it'd be a good change.
OTOH, there are people who check my journal whom I don't like, don't want watching me. I don't want them to realize "oh, I should create a feed to watch her" instead of attempting to find me at Google. (They are, for the most part, technically clueless people. I'm not sure they know how to create feeds.) (Obviously, I'm not speaking of DW users.) I am nervous about handing them *any* info about my online habits, because any info increases the chance that they'll figure out enough of how the web works to cause me more stress & grief.
I grant that this is a very, very small chance. I did mention paranoia, right? I'm not capable of rationally evaluating the likelihoods of various outcomes here.
All the troubles I can consciously come up with seem innocuous and easy to ignore (even in my twitchy-paranoid state; I know what risks I'm taking just by making public posts at all, and this wouldn't increase them), but I'm still stuck with some bit in the back of my mind doing the wide-eyed back-into-corner shaking-head thing at the idea.
I was kind of hoping that someone else would come along and articulate exactly what was making me nervous so I could either say "yes! THAT is the problem with this proposed change!" or "yes! And now that I understand how that's just silly, I can go along with this change, which will make me willing to post more comments!" Neither of those have happened.
It sounds like a good idea. It makes me twitchy. I don't know why.
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I expect there would be wank, because mygods, there has been wank about the fonts used on "friends only" banners; there is no setting or feature so innocuous it cannot inspire wank. I expect the wank would be tiny and erratic, like wank about "friends only" banners. Potential wank is no reason not to have this listed on profile pages. Especially as small and pointless as the wank would be.
Knowing someone was/was not Google searchable would change how I commented in some journals; it would probably let me relax & post more in public posts that weren't searchable. In that sense, it'd be a good change.
OTOH, there are people who check my journal whom I don't like, don't want watching me. I don't want them to realize "oh, I should create a feed to watch her" instead of attempting to find me at Google. (They are, for the most part, technically clueless people. I'm not sure they know how to create feeds.) (Obviously, I'm not speaking of DW users.) I am nervous about handing them *any* info about my online habits, because any info increases the chance that they'll figure out enough of how the web works to cause me more stress & grief.
I grant that this is a very, very small chance. I did mention paranoia, right? I'm not capable of rationally evaluating the likelihoods of various outcomes here.
All the troubles I can consciously come up with seem innocuous and easy to ignore (even in my twitchy-paranoid state; I know what risks I'm taking just by making public posts at all, and this wouldn't increase them), but I'm still stuck with some bit in the back of my mind doing the wide-eyed back-into-corner shaking-head thing at the idea.
I was kind of hoping that someone else would come along and articulate exactly what was making me nervous so I could either say "yes! THAT is the problem with this proposed change!" or "yes! And now that I understand how that's just silly, I can go along with this change, which will make me willing to post more comments!" Neither of those have happened.
It sounds like a good idea. It makes me twitchy. I don't know why.