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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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[black-panda-ops.livejournal.com]

I was under the impression it was done to discourage hotlinking.

Is that not correct?

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what the reasons are, I've always figured it was just to get more members for the icon community, but duskwillow has said that people say it's because of hotlinking too

I wonder why pimp the locked posts in all these public comms though if hotlinking is such an issue. Either people want to keep their communities private or they don't, it's this promoting locked (or about to be locked) entries to the public that gets annoying.

And with fic, I'm less sure of the reasons why people lock those entries later, but in those cases you often do end up completely end up losing access to fic that you might have really enjoyed reading :/ It's not as often that fic is posted at a community that you can join, and getting people to add you to their individual LJ's isn't always easy