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[frelling_tralk]

I don't get this trend of leaving icon posts open for two/three days, then flocking them, making public fic posts, then flocking them. It's so frustrating when I have fic saved in my LJ memories, only to find it's been flocked since when I want to reread it (this seems to happen particularly with Supernatural fandom for some reason).

What happened to the days of people locking personal posts only, and leaving fandom-related posts public. I miss them *sighs*

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[ladyoneill.livejournal.com]

Oh I find that very irritating. I tend to go look back several months at a time through icon communities and get frustrated when I come across so many locked posts. If you're that afraid someone will steal something, don't post anything on the internet!

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Gah seriously. I guess the motive with icon makers a lot of the time is to get more members for their communities, but what is with this trend of icon posts being linked at public communities, only to find that you have to ask to be added if you actually want to view the entry (and wait to be approved in some cases even). If you want to keep your icons private then KEEP them private, don't promote your flocked entries in public icon communities

[ladyoneill.livejournal.com]

I am noticing, at least, that many of the newsletters won't link to closed posts, but a lot of people get around that by doing the 'leave it open to all for a few days' thing. I'm a member of icon communities and newsletters precisely so I don't have to friend a hundred people I only want icons and fics from.

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

For a while there I got into the habit of just temporarily friending and then unfriending the comms if their teaser post made me want to see the icons, but since some icon communities had this whole wait to be approved by the maintainer deal going on, I generally don't bother with locked icon communities at all now.

Although saying that, the trend these days is tending more towards "open for three days" which is slightly less aggravating. But urgh why does everyone have to follow one another like sheep when it comes to these things