Short, concise description of the idea Have the ability to keep members from deleting comments of others in communities.
Full description of the idea As a moderator of a fairly active political discussion community, at times I've had to threaten bans and the like for people deleting the comments of others. Can we (or do we) have a setting that makes it impossible for non-admin members to delete someone else's comments?
An ordered list of benefits
Will keep people from censoring others, leave that to the mods. ;)
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If someone trolls a thread then the community would have to wait until an admin addresses the offending comment.
Title Release number of comments into feeds and API
Short, concise description of the idea Have an API releasing and displaying the number of comments currently in an entry viewable to feedreaders and other sites
Full description of the idea When reading feeds from Wordpress.com or entries crossposted on Dreamwidth on my friends page, I can see how many comments the entry has on that site without leaving LJ.
It is not currently possible for other sites to access this for entries on LJ, reducing interoperability and cross-platform traffic to LJ.
Having an image file released with the #comments, and having it released within an API, would allow off site users to see if new comments exist.
An ordered list of benefits
As many people have a lot of off-site readers, allowing those readers an easy way of seeing how many comments there are, thus encouraging return visits.
This would be especially useful for public/blogging users such as the newspaper columnists on, for example, the Independent Minds platform.
Encourage interoperability--users crossposting from other platforms can open up their LJ entry for comments and know that it's linked both ways thus comments aren't missed.
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Adding an image file displaying the #comments to the RSS feeds may encounter formatting issues.
Some users will want privacy options
Minor increase in server load as image file will be called whenever feed is viewed--this increase will be small and less than that for userpics or scrapbook hosted images viewed in feeds
Title Add option to receive notifications *only* by email
Short, concise description of the idea Rather than always having to have inbox messages, I would like the option to receive only email messages for notification types.
Full description of the idea (This might be a dupe, but I went back a bit and didn't spot it.)
I don't really use the LJ inbox. I'm not saying it's not a useful feature, just not one that I, personally make much use of. My journal style does not display the inbox count, so I pretty much only see the unread message number on other people's comment pages.
I do, however, make use of notifications. Birthdays, comment threads, and the like. They all go to my email, which is where I read them. But since there's no way to only send the notification to email (that I've found), the messages also get sent to my LJ inbox, and lay there until such time as I realise they're there and manually go in to mark them as 'read'. (I'm one of those people that doesn't like to see an 'unread' counter.)
It would be nice to have the option to be notified by mechanisms other than inbox without the inbox being required. The implementation of this could be as simple as not disabling all the other checkboxes when "inbox" is unchecked.
(I've been talking about this in the context of email, but presumably the same would apply to the other notification mechanisms as well - unticking the "inbox" checkmark would not disable the "TxtLJ" checkmark, for example.)
An ordered list of benefits
Unread counters annoy me. I wouldn't have to be annoyed any more.
Less unused database dross knocking about (though it probably doesn't take up that much space).
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May confuse users who are then unsure what they're subscribed to, since (depending on mechanism of implementation) they may be working without the visual feedback that implies "This is no longer active".
Short, concise description of the idea Have you ever purchased something from LJ and not received the necessary email to access your purchase? Specifically rename tokens. A simple "resend email" option would come in handy since the only current way to get this email resent is to open a support ticket and wait.
Full description of the idea There has to be an easier way to get something like a rename token resent to you. Either making the purchased item codes accessible from some part of your livejournal homepage or simply adding a "resend email" option would save people a lot of grief.
An ordered list of benefits
Instant access to the purchase you just paid for. No waiting on a support ticket just for an email.
An ordered list of problems/issues involved
Not sure of any potential technical/security problems.
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