two LJ questions

[sab]

1. Is there any way to browse only comments I've left in other journals and comms? Which is to say, I want to find a particular thing from about two years ago that got posted to an LJ comm; I know I commented on the entry so it would be much easier for me to browse my comments than to browse the entire LJ... yes? No?

2. If I use certain tags only on private/flocked posts, will those TAGS be visible in my tag cloud to people not on the filters that see the posts with those tags?




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Thank you, and have a pleasant afternoon.

Comments

[cidercupcakes.livejournal.com]

1. Unfortunately, I think you can only use the "Recent Comments" feature to check comments you've left, and as the name suggests, that's only comments you've left recently. :\ I tend to not clean out my inbox much, so I can sometimes search it by keyword and find the right comment, but I have no idea how you might go about tracking that.

2. No! I have tested this myself by signing out, and tags I used on filtered entries weren't visible when I was signed out. So that's some good news.

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

My understanding is that Recent Comments only show recent comments made to your own journal (by anyone, you and others) - not 'any' recent comments you made across the system... But I might be wrong, and now I'm curious. *goes to check*

[cidercupcakes.livejournal.com]

I think that below the recent ones left in your journal there's a section for ones you've recently left in other journals? Admittedly, though, it's been a couple of years since I used it.

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

1. No, that I know of - my way of equivalent is to have LJ send me the comments I leave by email (as well as those I receive), and to go browse in gmail when I'm looking for something (yes, this is also how I archive fic I read; if I commented on it, I get it in my inbox :D).

2. only people allowed to read posts bearing a certain tag will see that tag in the list. So if you have a tag that gets used only on private posts, no one but you will see it in the list. On a personal note: I used to do exactly that, and mysteriously ALL THE POSTS THAT BORE THIS PRECISE TAG VANISHED. As in, the tag appears (for me) in the list still but bearing a count of ZERO posts, and the posts are not THERE anymore. I had the precise URLS for some of these saved, and these URLS now give me 'no entry there' responses. To my knowledge, only posts that I did tag with a unique-to-private tag AND which were private got affected in this way - but of course it is possible that some other posts of mine that I have not been trying to access did also vanish. Needless to say, the private-post+germane-tag method is not one I use anymore.

I posted a support request for it about 4 months ago. Nothing happened since. (I have not been hacked either).

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Yeah, deleting my LJ notifications from gmail was clearly my first mistake. *g*

So now I get to go through two years of comm posts. Good thing it's air conditioned in here.

Thanks to both of you for the info!

[ratcreature]

Wow, that glitch sucks. LJ just deleted some of your entries?!

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

Yup. And let me tell you, the stuff I put up on a private filter with a tag for later perusal is usually *important*. One of these tags was for some writing which I've now lost, and the other all-private tag I had was even worse: passwords to other accounts for other online stuff like RPG journals, webservices like delicious, etc. The only reason I did not commit seppuku when these vanished is that I am paranoid enough and had those entries all saved locally.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

You might be able to use LJSeek's advanced search to search the comm for your own name.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

You know! I think that would have absolutely worked if it hadn't said that the comm I requested was an "invalid journal." Thanks for the link, I had no idea ljseek had an advanced search and it seems the sort of thing that I will definitely need in the future!

[girlboymusic.livejournal.com]

I usually use Google -- query "site:http://community.livejournal.com/communityname" plus whatever keywords you're looking for.

AFAIK, tags used only on locked posts still show up in the tags cloud.