Didn't see it coming :/

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The new twist on Dreamwidth drama is over comment importing?

::headdesk::

I'm very surprised that people are objecting to having their comments duplicated on another service. It makes no sense to me, at all. But I have to remember that a handful of posts on the subject (check out metafandom's delicious is you're curious) is just that, a few people saying that duplicating their comments on Dreamwidth is a violation of their copyright.

I get that fandom is tricky when deciding when it's OK to mess with someone else's property, that it's OK to take from commercial enterprises but not OK to take from each other within fandom. But still - comments? Really?

ETA: I just read this.

AFAIK, the plan is that anyone will be able to get all comments of theirs that have been imported to DW permanently screened.

(The option's not available yet, but will be as soon as they've coded it, which should be soon.)

You won't have to go through and find all the individual comments or anything like that; it'll just be bang, everything belonging to you gets screened in one fell swoop (ETA: it will also apply pre-emptively to any comments of yours that get imported in the future).

(Which, I will note, is something you can't do with your comments on LJ.)

The comments will still be there, but won't ever be visible to anyone except you and the journal owner, which effectively makes it no different from a private back-up like LJArchive.

Now that might make everyone happy :D

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Hah! Once again I'm being overly optimistic I see. If someone did that in my DW account... see, I can't even imagine anyone in my flist wanting to do that! Until recently I was flocked, so all the comments are from people that I know to some degree.