See my reply to en_ki about disabling comments in all but one place (I haven't entirely ruled out that possibility, but those are the reasons I'm leaning away from that).
The thought of posting friends-only did not even occur to me! I have to think about that a bit -- long enough to let the idea start to feel less alien. In the specific case of LJ-under-this-week's-rules, it would allow known LJ readers to see my stuff directly without showing ads to anybody who hadn't already made their own decision to exchange ad-views for features (i.e. Plus users). It would unfortunately cut out unknown LJ readers (I know there are some people who read my LJ directly but have never put me on their friends-lists; I don't know how many), and LJ friends who wanted to link to one of my entries would need to remember to link to the public copy rather than the LJ copy ... I suppose if the final public entry were the "I've gone thataway" sign, that would direct the non-LJ-users whove been reading me here to go there, though that tastes wrong, and I'm not sure whether it's because there's something I really don't like about it or just the alienness of the friends-only meme.
I've got some pondering to do. Thanks for the suggestions.
If you go the friends-only route, I won't be able to read any of your entries from work. (LJ, and most if not all of your mirrors, are blocked; dynamic-DNS hackery lets me at least read a subset of my friends page, but I can't log in using that trick. (Also can't follow cut or comment links.)) This isn't a huge consideration (I have to go back the entire day each night anyway to catch the locked stuff), but it is a minor convenience for me to be able to read the stuff that's public (and not cut) anyway over lunch, even if I won't be able to comment until later.
Ah. Important information, that (even with the "isn't a huge consideration" qualifier). I hadn't thought of LJ users unable to log in from some places.
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The thought of posting friends-only did not even occur to me! I have to think about that a bit -- long enough to let the idea start to feel less alien. In the specific case of LJ-under-this-week's-rules, it would allow known LJ readers to see my stuff directly without showing ads to anybody who hadn't already made their own decision to exchange ad-views for features (i.e. Plus users). It would unfortunately cut out unknown LJ readers (I know there are some people who read my LJ directly but have never put me on their friends-lists; I don't know how many), and LJ friends who wanted to link to one of my entries would need to remember to link to the public copy rather than the LJ copy ... I suppose if the final public entry were the "I've gone thataway" sign, that would direct the non-LJ-users whove been reading me here to go there, though that tastes wrong, and I'm not sure whether it's because there's something I really don't like about it or just the alienness of the friends-only meme.
I've got some pondering to do. Thanks for the suggestions.
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