Crossposter goes live

[thedivinegoat_archive]

I've been thinking a bit about how I'm going to run my DW & LJ accounts, now I actually have a DW account, and the crossposter is working, (albeit in alpha form).

One thing I've been wondering about, is the whole commenting thing. The crossposter allows you turn off comments at LJ, and redirect people to DW. (The theory being, that if you've got an account at LJ you can comment at DW with your openid).

Having seen some of the wank going down in the last few days I have to ask - if you read my journal, but are not yet on DW, and have no plans to be, would being directed to DW be a deterent to commenting? (I say this as if I write loads of interesting posts that people are falling over themselves to post on. ;-) )

If it is a deterent, why?

Comments

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I don't think it would be much of a deterrant - there are plenty of blog feeds etc. where you can't comment that easily, and it's a PITA to sign up to do so, if it's possible to do so automatically that's fine with me.

[sesaworuban.livejournal.com]

I have a DW account but I'm not sure what I'm doing with it yet (brilliantblaze, by the way).

I rarely comment on your posts (although I always try to read them) so it won't be a big deal for me either way.

[briarwood.livejournal.com]

It's a deterrent because people won't comment if they have to go to any extra trouble. Me, I'll comment if I've got something to say. But I've noticed that my posts on other sites almost never get comments if they're linked from LJ. I know they're read, but folks don't comment unless they've got an account there.

Dreamwidth are pushing this Open ID thing as if it's their new and unique thing, but a lot of people still won't use it. IJ has that option, too, but people don't bother.

[morganmuffle]

The really stupid thing is even though I KNOW it isn't actually anymore effort to comment over there rather than here, especially now I actually have a DW account, in my head it still feels like it is so... maybe?

There was a semi-serious point at the start of the flurry of concern about how (apparently) people were linking to the "post a comment" page rather than the comments page itself and a lot of people didn't like that because they want to see what conversation has already happened before they reply *shrugs*

I still dislike crossposting mostly because it's going to make me have to play with reading filters so I don't get everything twice if I read in both places :P but again that'sjust laziness really.