A slightly different Friends policy

[mmcnealy]

Due to recent events in which it became somewhat clear that a person on my friends list either sent a synopsis of my friends-only posts or the text of the posts themselves to a third party who had no business seeing them, I have trimmed the list of people who have friends priviledges.

The list of people who currently are on the friends list are people I have either met in person or have developed a relationship with online. Please do not be offended if you aren't on this list, and feel free to unfriend me if you chose, I won't be offended. Really, I won't.

I will still post my research on this LJ in public posts, if you want to keep track of it and not have me as a friend, Bloglines is a great way to do it.

I have also changed the comment policy so that if you aren't on my friends list, the comment is screened until I unscreen it. This is in case of an unplesant occurance, which hasn't occurred, but it seemed a better way to handle comments that restricting them to friends only. I know that people enjoy the research posts and like to comment on them and I wanted to give people who weren't on my friends list the chance to do that, while limiting the impact of those with malicious intent.

I wish that I hadn't had to do this, but it was probably bound to happen sooner or later.

Comments

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

Thanks for being understanding. I may change my policy in the future, but for right now this is how things have to be.

[merouda-true.livejournal.com]

I myself have several filters. They work well enough for me that I can leave certain people I'm not sure of on my friends list. But they only see posts sent to all friends.

Have you considered a filter group? That might help you out some.

[mmcnealy.livejournal.com]

I plan to implement filters in the future, but not right today. I would have to go through and lock down all my old posts with the new filters and I'm not really feeling up to all of that right at the moment.

So for today its a trimming of the friends list and comtemplating what filters I'd actually use and catagories that people would fall into.

[merouda-true.livejournal.com]

heh. I recently did that myself. Which wasn't too bad because I've only been posting a few months. I can imagine you have a much larger job in front of you. And since then I've changed the categories here and there. More than once, as I figure it all out. ;-)

I'm truly sorry you were betrayed by a 'friend.' Here's to feeling better soon.