Posting access

[boji]

In light of the current LJ-fail, can anyone tell me if it's possible to crosspost so my Dreamwith posts are public and my Livejournal ones f-locked?

I'm wondering if I can do this in one-step, so to speak, rather than having to post access-locked and then unlock the post here.

ETA: Sorted. Thank you all for your replies.

Comments

[jenett]

If you set the default protection level on your LiveJournal to friends-lock, it will pick the default for the site, rather than the post.

(I do that with mine: the DW defaults public, LJ defaults friends-locked)

However, note that if you edit the access level on the DW side once it's posted, the LJ side will pick it up. (I just tested with a post that's locked here: edit it to public here, LJ edits to public too. Protect it, LJ picks up the protection again.) It won't do this for content edits, though, just things that touch the access level.

[glinda]

If you set your default security status on lj to f-locked and on dw to public then when you cross-post it should (I say should because it normally works but sometimes randomly doesn't so you might want to watch that) respect the privacy settings accordingly.

[jumpuphigh]

If you do as the previous two commenters mentioned and change your LJ settings to friends-lock, your posts here will respect the settings you set while posting while LJ will be friends-lock. However, if you make any edits to a post on DW that is not locked, your LJ settings will change accordingly. When I was cross-posting, how I avoided that was by forcing myself to check the cross-post box every time I wanted to cross-post. Then, it didn't happen accidentally when I went back to edit something here for a spelling error.

[ursamajor]

jennett and glinda have already got you on the post-public-to-Dreamwidth-but-flocked-to-LJ thing (I do it too!), so I'll just say welcome! :)

[florentinescot]

Thanks for this question. I didn't even know that this group was here until I was poking around and clicked *network* and this was one of the things that showed up.

Awesome.

Done and done.