No contact

[pne]

OK, so there are quite a number of people with friends-only journals. Many of those also have one public entry that you can comment on, for example, if you want to be added, or want to contact the journal owner for some other reason.

What bemuses me is those who fall into the above category and who limit posting to their journal to "Friends" (i.e. disallow anonymous and non-friend comments). That would seem to negate the utility of such a public entry, no? At least, if comments are enabled on that entry at all... the only people who could comment could also see, and presumably comment on, the regular entries.

And if the journal owner doesn't list any contact details on their userinfo page, e.g. email or IM, then you can't get hold of them at all. Which is a valid choice, I suppose; I just find that (a) providing a public entry that seems to be for commenting on and then (b) stopping people from commenting on it seems a rather strange combination.

Comments

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

I love you for using the word "bemuse" correctly.

bemused

[pne.livejournal.com]

How do other people use?

Re: bemused

[catamorphism.livejournal.com]

To mean "amuse".

Re: bemused

[me-and.livejournal.com]

What!? But that's just, well, wrong!

[kamara.livejournal.com]

What I've found is that usually the commentable friends-only post and the option to disable non-friend posting is a temporary thing. Like they're currently having issues with friend of person they're avoiding bugging them. So they've switched off the ability for non-friends to comment, but don't want to go through the hassle of editing the post to be FO or whatever (probably because they'll forget to switch it back).

If uh, that makes sense. I think I rambled a bit there.

*sits happily in the no contact journal corner*

[pne.livejournal.com]

*sits happily in the no contact journal corner*

*looks* Wow, you don't have any public journal entry right now. I'm pretty sure, though, that you used to have one, since on the odd occasion when I'd go to your journal directly, there'd be an entry at the top saying words to the effect of "don't ask me for styles" or the like, among other things.

If uh, that makes sense.

Not an awful lot TBH.

[kamara.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I used to have a public post saying "no. go away" but about 3 weeks or so ago I scrapped it and my bio + contact info.

Okay. I'll try to explain.
Person has FO journal with public post.
Person has annoying person they know. They're banned though.
Annoying person gets all their friends to comment and say things to be mean or whatever.
Person doesn't want to put up with this, so temporarily sets journal so non-friends can't comment.
They see it as being much easier that editing that post to disallow all comments, or privatising it. Since they still might want that top post for important information or whatever.

[pne.livejournal.com]

OK. That makes more sense.

[bride.livejournal.com]

I've found people like that. It's dumb, I know.

Depending on how badly I need to get a hold of them, I'll look through some of the communities they belong to and contact them there through comments (post a comment and delete it right away).