DisConnect

[enismirdal]

Like everyone else, I respectfully request that nobody cross-posts any of my comments - in particular ones in locked posts - to Facebook or Twitter.

I generally try to be careful with what I put in comments even of locked posts, as nothing is ever 100% secure, but nonetheless I can't remember everything I said in the last 6 years of LJing and something in there might well have been a little more tactless than I'd like to be publically available!

Also...I may be being particularly dumb, but I thought I'd ask so cleverer people can enlighten me... My understanding is that the new Greasemonkey DisConnect script only stops my own browser from cross-posting LJ comments to Facebook? Which, since I had no plans to do so anyway and was hardly going to do so by accident, isn't really a big deal for me. I can't imagine it can physically delve into the LJ site itself and stop anyone else from doing it with my comments, right? So installing it is basically an aesthetic feature, not a security one?

ETA: Ah!! daluci actually seems to explain here that the Greasemonkey script doesn't stop other people reposting comments on your LJ, it only makes your LJ look box-free to you.

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[ewx.livejournal.com]

The only options available seem to be to copy one's own comments and/or entries to FB or Twitter, so I'm slightly confused by this.

[enismirdal.livejournal.com]

That's interesting. My understanding (apologies if this is not news to you) is that LJ have been terribly helpful by adding in some code that allows you to automatically cross-post comments to FB or Twitter. This also works for Friends-locked LJ posts, and makes the comment you are replying to visible on FB/Twitter as well as including the URL of the original (Friends-locked) LJ post. Or so I gather from the unhappy people posting all over LJ in annoyance.

I just took this (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v503/enismirdal/LJFB.png) screencap of this page when I opened it in IE (where I am not logged in) and there are the options to repost "this" comment to FB/Twitter - albeit greyed out for one reason or another - and my assumption was from the vitriol that this includes the comment you're replying to as well... I think because of my logged-in settings I don't get those options in FF.

So yeah, I'm not sure I entirely grasp exactly what can and can't be done and what will and won't prevent it.