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oh, elljay.
Jun. 10th, 2011 10:05 amYeah, so, hi.
[eta: The storm of protests seems to have reached the decision-makers at LJ, and they're walking back this feature. One wonders why they keep not thinking of these things until thousands of people point them out, but that's for another day. DW invites still available, of course, but I'm tentatively calling off the wiggins.]
With apologies to those of you who think it's a cult, I do have Dreamwidth invites if you want. Leave a screened comment w/ the e-mail address you'd like the code sent to.
[eta: The storm of protests seems to have reached the decision-makers at LJ, and they're walking back this feature. One wonders why they keep not thinking of these things until thousands of people point them out, but that's for another day. DW invites still available, of course, but I'm tentatively calling off the wiggins.]
Users who have enabled Comment IP logging will now also see the Country and City information of the commenter. This information is only visible to the journal owner, community owner/maintainers, or author of the entry if it is posted to a community with this feature enabled (only those who can currently see IP information). This feature is providing the publicly available geo-location associated with the IP address in the same way the "location" feature on our Update page currently functions.Of course users with Comment IP logging enabled could always look up a person's location based on the logged IP address. What I don't love about this feature is (a) it does the work for you, telling you my location based on my IP address whether you asked it or not; and (b) better yet, it does so retroactively. If you turn on IP logging tomorrow, comments I left five years ago will tell you where I was then and where I am now. Nothing to be done about that, of course, short of deleting my journal such that all comments I've ever left come with me. Going forward, though - deciding not to comment on posts with the User Has IP Logging Enabled notice won't work, because of the retroactivity. I suspect I will decide not to comment in the LJ of anyone I don't know pretty well, though. The fact that it works the same as the "location" feature in the Update page helps me not at all, because I deliberately don't use that feature.
With apologies to those of you who think it's a cult, I do have Dreamwidth invites if you want. Leave a screened comment w/ the e-mail address you'd like the code sent to.
