Logging and screening

[pne]

I've noticed that a number of users and communities log IP addresses either for anonymous users or for all users, or that they screen comments, and I wonder what their motivations are. Have you had bad experiences? Are you simply cautious? Something else?

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making old entries private

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Inevitably, someone at some point will go back and try to look at them and forget that those entries were written by "Melissa 3 years ago", and instead attribute them to "current Melissa", and I don't like the idea of that.

Ah. Reminds me of what I thought when rahaeli posted links to some of her first support requests, which don't reflect on "current Rahaeli" at all.

Thanks for explaining this. I'd only come across this before with aajwind (or rather, he was the only person I'd seen before who mentioned doing this as a matter of policy—for similar reasons to you).

I think the thought never really occurred to me. But that may be due to my age: I started my LiveJournal when I was nearly 28, and I daresay the difference between 27 and 30 is less than between, say, 17 and 20.

So again, thank you for explaining.