IsisStormDragon

Writer, Procrastinator

Demiromantic asexual lesbian in love with Samus Aran. White. 28. Dragon who hoards stuff. I designed a small game once; hope to design more someday.

(IsisDreamWeaver, from Twitter, for any who know me from there)


Codarobo
@Codarobo

Do kinda wish there was a common way to signify the difference between "I'm posting this and it's okay to riff on it/add your own thoughts (or even I specifically want that)" and "I'm posting this for me, please don't commandeer it for yourself or your own ideas" because I think a lot of posts do fall into one of those categories often and it's really generally not obvious which is which at a glance.

And tbh I think a lot of social media strife happens over people feeling offended that others are responding to/riffing on things they've posted, when they're treating their own timeline like more of a personal journal than a collaborative space.

I'm thinking how there's definitely times when I make a post somewhere and I'm extremely open to other people having ideas jumping off of my ideas. But then I was thinking about how like, if I posted a character idea that I was intending to flesh out later myself, and somebody responded to it by writing a whole story based on their own ideas that I now feel like I have to make space for, it would really complicate what I'm trying to do there. And I just don't know how to make that clear for others (or tell when others are open to/interested in/not open to that kind of riffing) in a way that is brief/concise/widely understood


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in reply to @Codarobo's post:

a way to indicate "this is a read only post" would be nice

lock comments + lock shares seems to be the best closest option here on cohost, though you either have to post to drafts and set them before publishing, or hit those buttons just after posting

I still want "lock comments to n-hop viewers", that is, n-order shares can get through (reshare of a post is n=1, post is n=0) with the option of it being only off initial mutual reshares or something

because often I'm cool with the followers of my mutuals, say, since they'll at least have some context, but past that is pain on any platform.

G+ had one thing right imo, the "post to extended circles" (followers of your followers) thing.

This is not a post about cohost, more a general like. etiquette and language musing. I feel like we don't have a whole lot of cultural shorthand (that I'm aware of anyway) for this that doesn't require what can feel like a long explanation every time. Social media formats, especially twitter-likes, especially don't provide a lot of room for specifying this in particular

This is why like privacy settings at the post level on sites. It would be good to be able to mark specific posts as locked so they can't be commented on/shared. I've used this on other sites before and I think it's a great solution.