testing the waters

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Would it be helpful to anyone if I started cross-posting to (or from, rather, but same dif) Dreamwidth? Never fear - I would still be posting to LJ as well. But is there anyone out there for whom this would be beneficial?

My hesitation with cross-posting is that I hate the idea of splitting my blog conversations, with some folks commenting on LJ and others on DW. But closing comments on one or the other just shuts part of the conversation down entirely. I still have no answer to this problem.

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But is there anyone out there for whom this would be beneficial?

Ah, well, me, lol.

I agree with you that splitting the comments is a pain. I don't think it's a big deal to direct all comments to one post - it's not that hard to click the link to comment. Barb is doing this now, I believe.

The thing is that it's much easier to direct all comments to DW than to direct them all to LJ. I think you can set up your crossposting to automatically link back to DW, but if you want the comments at LJ, you'd have to manually include a link to the LJ post and ask DW folks to please comment there.

So it's definitely easier to have all comments at DW, but if you still feel like LJ is where the primary discussion is, then having all your comments on DW might not be ideal.

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The thing is that it's much easier to direct all comments to DW than to direct them all to LJ. I think you can set up your crossposting to automatically link back to DW, but if you want the comments at LJ, you'd have to manually include a link to the LJ post and ask DW folks to please comment there.

Technically DW can do either, I think.

It's fairly easy to keep all the comments at DW, though, because it really likes OpenID.



(I'd love to do precisely that, but I still have a lot of people who read my LJ and don't know about my DW... so I'm keeping them sort-of-separate for now.)

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Technically DW can do either, I think.

DW is so smart! lol

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That's it - I do feel that LJ is still where the primary discussion is. Also, I have a paid account over here with lots of icons, and I'm not carrying three paid blog accounts (my two LJs plus DW). Especially since DW, unlike evol LJ, doesn't have maddening pop-up ads on free accounts.

I think that, for all its goodies, DW still hasn't made it worth it for me to go to the extra hassle. What with the basic split conversation problem, I'm not sure they ever will, or what it'd take.

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Yeah, I'm ditching my paid LJ account when it expires in a couple weeks, so I had no problem shelling out for lots of icons at DW, lol.

DW is definitely worth it for me, but I'm probably a special case. :)

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You're not the only one. I can't think of anyone else that's jumped ship entirely, but there are plenty of folks nowdays that only leave commens open on DW.

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Hmmmm - I think there's a way to make all the comments show up on DW, but I don't know exactly what it is. I've never thought about that aspect of it. I guess I'll have to start checking my DW entries for possible comments that I missed.

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I'm pretty sure there's a way to import LJ to DW in such a way that the comments are integrated. Barb figured it out, I think. That does involve the extra step of importation, though.