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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]

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