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Your friendship means the most to me

Sep. 16th, 2009 at 11:31 AM

crypto: actor glynn turman (glynn turman)

I've been crossposting to LiveJournal and Dreamwidth for a few months now, and haven't figured out what, if anything, to do with the comments.

Dreamwidth now allows you to insert a link in the LJ post to its DW version, complete with number of comments posted on DW, but unfortunately it's not reciprocal. Alternately I could disable comments on one site and steer them to the other, to centralize discussion.

This isn't an issue with most of my posts, so I've put off doing anything about it, but occasionally I'll post something where a discussion emerges on one or both sites. I've found myself in replies referring people to a comment thread on the other site a few times recently.

Looking through my last few months of posts, and counting only those which have at least 10 comments on at least one site (though usually about half of them would be my replies), comments on Dreamwidth version edged out comments on LiveJournal by about a 5 to 4 margin (454 to 369). Though I'd guess that if I went through those same posts and tallied up number of commenters (anyone who's commented at least once), LiveJournal would come out ahead.

So should I do anything differently?

Poll #1274 Comment preferences

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 22

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Should I centralize comments on DW and disable them on LJ?

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Sure, works for me
15 (68.2%)

No, please don't - I prefer to comment on LJ
1 (4.5%)

But why? Two discussions are better than one!
2 (9.1%)

Text - such a primitive interface! I do my commenting via telepathy.
0 (0.0%)

I care more about convenient links to the crossposted entry -- can you get on that?
4 (18.2%)

If you're crossposting, what's your experience been with comments?

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I centralize on one site, and have no regrets
9 (47.4%)

I centralize on one site, and I'm paying the price in less discussions
0 (0.0%)

I cross-link the DW post in the LJ entry, and it's been a positive experience
1 (5.3%)

I cross-link, but mainly for my own convenience - I'm not sure anyone else cares
4 (21.1%)

I don't cross-link or centralize. I do however recycle and watch my cholesterol.
5 (26.3%)

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anatsuno wrote:

Sep. 16th, 2009 05:37 pm (UTC)

I checked 'convenient links to the crossposted entry' but I realize it's a pain to keep up, and I personally won't do it, so. I guess the mostest honest answer for me would be 'centralize on Dw, works for me', even though I think you'd lose on quality discussion which I'm happy to go see on LJ when it happens, like I did recently.

I crosspost with comments on both sites, and for autobiographic content I'll keep at it for a while because a few of my RL friends are on LJ and won't move. I also still have an active flist on LJ, and many communities I belong to who don't exist here, so. My free account over there is still getting some usage.

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crypto wrote:

Sep. 16th, 2009 06:03 pm (UTC)

Yeah, I'm not sure that centralizing on DW is an overall net gain for discussion. At this point, everyone I know in either place has an LJ account, but not everyone has (or uses) a DW account. And there's something about posting via OpenID on DW which feels a bit "second-class commenting citizen", even though it's great that the option's there and relatively easy to use.

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