Alyse: last of her breed

Please feel free at this point to fuck yourself up the arse.

I did the masterlist post. I checked that it had crossposted. I edited the masterlist. I made sure that the masterlist edit had flowed to LJ and, lo, it had!

Yay, I thought. They've finally fixed the issues they were having. I knew they must have been working on it because some of the other issues - like comments not showing up on default view and the 'expand' option actually opening up the thread instead - were fixed this morning.

I posted part 1.

I posted part 2.

I edited part 1 to link to part 2. Oh fuck, I thought when I spotted that the 'crosspost to LJ box' was unchecked. That doesn't look good.

LJ fucking well posted a second part 1.

I delete all of the parts I'd posted, swearing continuously, only to discover that the part 2 post was still crossposting fine. So apparently LJ are deciding to fuck up only every other post now, not on every single one. I suppose that's progress of a sort, not that anyone has bothered to acknowledge the fact that I reported the issue.

I give up. I really fucking do. I'm going to post the link to AO3 as a fic post and try again in a fucking week. Not that anyone on LJ gives a flying fuck about my fic anyway. [/rant]

I have Dreamwidth invites, if anyone wants one. I'm staying on LJ but will continue to cross post. To be honest, although I wasn't sold on DW at first, I am coming to love it more and more and the functionality, including the improvements they are making (which are actually improvements not 'really badly thought out ideas'), makes LJ look tired and creaky.

And let me also join my voice to the chorus about LJ's latest wonderful 'feature', which allows people to crosspost all of their entries and comments, including comments they've left on other people's flocked posts, to Facebook and Twitter. (Because it's a feature, not a bug, apparently, although the removal of / from tags apparently is a bug... ::sigh::).

I realise that posting stuff behind friendslocked is no guarantee that it will remain private. However, that does not mean that I do not have, or am unreasonable in having, an expectation of other users displaying basic courtesy by keeping their yaps shut about stuff I haven't shared more widely than with those I allow to access locked posts.

Consequently, I don't expect anyone who currently has access to my flocked posts to:

i) share links to those posts more widely;
ii) share information about what is in those posts or information about what is in comments on those posts, whether made by me or anyone else, more widely than on the post itself; or
iii) repost comments they themselves have made on those posts if those comments include any information about the content of those posts or the contents of other people's comments (which is kind of difficult not to do if you're having anything close to a two way conversation);

without permission first.

Like I said, I consider this basic courtesy. I think most other people would be of the same mind, as this is a fairly well understood facet of the livejournal culture, but the for the avoidance of all doubt, breaking flock will get you kicked off my flist, whether it's because you've shared (without permission) stuff I've posted behind flock or whether you share something that someone else has posted in the safe space of my flocked entries.

In the nine and a half years that I have had an LJ account, I have only encountered three people who either broke friendslock or acted in such a way that I thought there was a real risk that they would do so, and in all three cases the individuals involved were removed from my friendslist forthwith. This was simply about removing their access to that information, not because I view it as a punishment, and these are the only times I have ever removed someone from my flist before they removed me first.

It is not about punishing individuals; it is simply a matter of trust. Consider it to be something akin to virginity - once you've fucked it up, it has been forever fucked.

End PSA.