Now with actual poll on Dreamwidth!

[crypto]

See previous entry for context & explanation.

Poll #879 Search poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15

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My journal searchability preferences

View Answers

Block all searches (Google and within-site)
2 (13.3%)

lock Google searches; allow site users to search my journal
9 (60.0%)

Allow all searches (Google and within-site)
4 (26.7%)

Allow Google searches; block site users from searching my journal
0 (0.0%)

ETA: ...er, the second option should read "Block Google searches; allow...".

Comments

[crypto]

You know, that last part is very compelling to me. When I initially set up my LJ, I opted to allow search engines (even though I didn't actually expect anyone to find my posts that way) on general principle: it just seemed like good internet citizenship to be searchable and discoverable as a default.

But your comment makes me wonder where I got that idea, and why I bought into it. It feels like part of a certain "information wants to be free" internet ideology: Access! Link! Share! Create! Comment! Connect! Consume!

(These thoughts inspired by oyceter's IBARW post On knowledge and knowing and audience)

[sara]

There are certainly places and spaces where I do my part to free the ole information -- but, despite the obviously-strong bias in various parts of internetlandia, I see no particular reason why online social networks, as such, should be places where people feel a need to be making themselves constantly available to all comers.

It's the difference between a performative model and a social model. Much of the blogosphere is performative, but a lot of other social spaces really aren't, and there's no particular reason why they should be.