Comments on: LiveJournal and comments http://blog.kamens.us/2005/10/12/livejournal-and-comments/ Musings of an indignant mind Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:10:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jik http://blog.kamens.us/2005/10/12/livejournal-and-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-14 jik Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:24:47 +0000 http://blog.kamens.brookline.ma.us/~jik/wordpress/?p=9#comment-14 I could understand that answer for RSS feeds that don't support comments. But the RSS protocol supports indicating where comments should be posted, so I'd argue that when a feed sends that information, LJ should use it. I could understand that answer for RSS feeds that don’t support comments. But the RSS protocol supports indicating where comments should be posted, so I’d argue that when a feed sends that information, LJ should use it.

]]> By: Michael Hanscom http://blog.kamens.us/2005/10/12/livejournal-and-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-13 Michael Hanscom Wed, 12 Oct 2005 16:23:07 +0000 http://blog.kamens.brookline.ma.us/~jik/wordpress/?p=9#comment-13 Rock on...glad my little brainstorm worked for you. > You’d think LJ would make that automatic for syndicated feeds. I asked about this when I was working on my solution, and the explanation I got [here][1] was that many of the most popular syndication feeds come from news services, and people like to talk about the news. Makes sense to me. [1]: http://www.livejournal.com/community/syn_quest/158527.html?thread=344895#t344895 Rock on…glad my little brainstorm worked for you.

> You’d think LJ would make that automatic for syndicated feeds.

I asked about this when I was working on my solution, and the explanation I got [here][1] was that many of the most popular syndication feeds come from news services, and people like to talk about the news. Makes sense to me.

[1]: http://www.livejournal.com/community/syn_quest/158527.html?thread=344895#t344895

]]> By: jik http://blog.kamens.us/2005/10/12/livejournal-and-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-12 jik Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:44:46 +0000 http://blog.kamens.brookline.ma.us/~jik/wordpress/?p=9#comment-12 WordPress's RSS feed sends times in GMT and includes the time zone to indicate this. If LJ isn't smart enough to convert the times into the user's local time zone, that's LJ's problem :-). WordPress’s RSS feed sends times in GMT and includes the time zone to indicate this. If LJ isn’t smart enough to convert the times into the user’s local time zone, that’s LJ’s problem :-) .

]]> By: Angwantibo http://blog.kamens.us/2005/10/12/livejournal-and-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Angwantibo Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:34:56 +0000 http://blog.kamens.brookline.ma.us/~jik/wordpress/?p=9#comment-11 Do you use GMT? Your timestamp on live journal is 4 hours later than on your site. Somethings screwed up. Do you use GMT? Your timestamp on live journal is 4 hours later than on your site. Somethings screwed up.

]]> By: Michael A. Burstein http://blog.kamens.us/2005/10/12/livejournal-and-comments/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Michael A. Burstein Wed, 12 Oct 2005 13:46:14 +0000 http://blog.kamens.brookline.ma.us/~jik/wordpress/?p=9#comment-6 This is indeed one of the more annoying things about LiveJournal syndication. You can't turn off the ability to reply to syndicated posts, so people often reply to them on LJ even though the originator may not even be aware of the syndication. The odd thing is that when I post something to LJ, I always have the option to turn commenting off. You'd think LJ would make that automatic for syndicated feeds. This is indeed one of the more annoying things about LiveJournal syndication. You can’t turn off the ability to reply to syndicated posts, so people often reply to them on LJ even though the originator may not even be aware of the syndication.

The odd thing is that when I post something to LJ, I always have the option to turn commenting off. You’d think LJ would make that automatic for syndicated feeds.

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