LJ Pingbacks and Facebook/Twitter crossposting settings

[karohemd]

Confusion seems to reign about recent LJ changes so I'm putting a few things together:

- Pingbacks send you a message if someone links to an LJ post of yours. Check here (second from bottom) if it's on or not.

- Stay away from Facebook/Twitter Connect!
As long as you don't set up Facebook/Twitter Connect on the Extensions page, you can't xpost your entries or comments. However, it's possible for others to xpost their comments they make on one of your posts. There's currently a possible security nag which might allow xposting a comment on a f-locked post. Big Boo there, LJ. Even it if it's a public post, I don't want willy-nilly to post stuff to facebook I don't want there. These accounts are separate for a reason.

Annoyingly, even when you've disabled xposting, you'll get the checkboxes in each comment you're going to write. Thankfully, but only for Firefox, there's a script for Greasemonkey that will get rid of them. I just tried it, it works.

Comments

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That pingback thing popped up and looked annoying when I was reading somebody's journal but when I finished reading and looked for it, it was not to be found. Looks like LJ are using the Facebook school of privacy settings: if we hide it behind enough badly named links and tabs, nobody will opt out of it.

[von-geisterhand.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info. :-)
I am certainly not going to disturb my on-line schizophrenia by crossposting in this way.

..they tried to make me want to crosspost, I said No, No, No...

Oh, look: A ticky box.

[ebb.livejournal.com]

Thanks, very helpful!

[ginasketch.livejournal.com]

I hate it too.

Fucking Facebook.

[motodraconis.livejournal.com]

Arf! I've just tried to use that Greasemonkey script, but the server is down. Hmmmm, I wonder if it's got very popular all of a sudden!