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

[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.