On 1/24/09, Helens <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Rachel Walmsley <[email protected]> wrote: > > What I'd propose would be something along these lines: > > > > Get rid of the restrictions on dating out of order, and replace them > > > with a warning [snip] It would also be possible > > > to add a "don't warn me!" checkbox somewhere in the options for people > > who write historical or fictional journals. > > [snip] > > > instead of backdating, just have a "don't show on aggregate views" > > checkbox > > > This sounds like a great idea, but I'd gladly take backdating as it is > over the option of not having backdating at all!
Rachel wasn't suggesting getting rid of backdating. Have you tried forward dating a post without selecting the "Date out of order" checkbox on LJ? You'll find it still works just fine, and will show up on friends views just fine. Except that the next time you try to post at a normal date, you get an error, and you can't go on until you either mark the older post as 'out of order' (the preferred way) or mark all your future posts as 'out of order' (which is what many people try to do when they get that error because they don't know otherwise, and then they wonder why nobody comments any more, not realising that their posts aren't showing on other people's friends lists). What Rachel was suggesting was that instead of having to bother with selecting the checkbox, the checkbox for 'out of order' doesn't exist (but the mechanism to change the date on a post *does* still exist), and instead, when you change the date on a post to something significantly different from the current date, it warns you. Then, in addition to this, there would be a checkbox that stops the post from appearing on friends pages, etc - but you wouldn't *have* to use it if you didn't want to. Does that make sense? - Sophie. In communities > (granted, ones where the content is self-only or small-group-only and > needs some organization), I've used it to organize posts (and as > AzAxtra is mentioning, order fictional activities by date -- it may > not reorder things on friends lists, but it *does* reorder them in the > community if you are looking at the community itself); in a personal > journal, I've done everything from organize posts to posting the text > of my wedding ceremony on the actual date after returning from my > honeymoon, or recap vacations on the days they actually occurred. > > There are, no doubt, a gazillion other good reasons for not > eliminating backdating. Restructuring how it works? Great. Getting > rid of it? Oh, God, please, no. > > > --Helens > > _______________________________________________ > dw-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss > > _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
