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You may or may not have already noticed this little trick. You can now screen comments on your journal. There will be an eye next to each comment (when you are logged in) in your journal with a red line through it. If you click that button, the comment will become screened, meaning only you and the person who posted it can see it.
A screened comment will not appear to other users and will appear to you and the poster with a "screened comment" link. Click on that link, and that (and every other screened comment you can view on the page) becomes visible. Click the eye on the screened view and you have unscreened it and everyone can see it.
You can go to your "Personal Info" settings in order to set it for comments to be screened by default. You can make it so new comments are by default: never screened, anonymous comments screened, comments by anyone not on your friends list (including anonymous) screened, or all comments screened.
The setting is near the bottom of the http://www.livejournal.com/editinfo.bml page, in the same area where you control who can reply to your comments and whether IP addresses are logged. The new option is "Which replies do you want screened by default?"
Also, if you routinely post from the web interface and want to always post friends-only, you can do it now. This setting prevents the use of security levels less than the one listed, so if you post public from the web interface, it makes it friends if that's what you've set it to, never mind what you tried. It does not appear (after brief testing) to affect the clients (or at least the Windows client), however. More information on how to set this (which involves a trip to the console, unfortunately) is available here:
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=lj_nifty&itemid=52503
A screened comment will not appear to other users and will appear to you and the poster with a "screened comment" link. Click on that link, and that (and every other screened comment you can view on the page) becomes visible. Click the eye on the screened view and you have unscreened it and everyone can see it.
You can go to your "Personal Info" settings in order to set it for comments to be screened by default. You can make it so new comments are by default: never screened, anonymous comments screened, comments by anyone not on your friends list (including anonymous) screened, or all comments screened.
The setting is near the bottom of the http://www.livejournal.com/editinfo.bml page, in the same area where you control who can reply to your comments and whether IP addresses are logged. The new option is "Which replies do you want screened by default?"
Also, if you routinely post from the web interface and want to always post friends-only, you can do it now. This setting prevents the use of security levels less than the one listed, so if you post public from the web interface, it makes it friends if that's what you've set it to, never mind what you tried. It does not appear (after brief testing) to affect the clients (or at least the Windows client), however. More information on how to set this (which involves a trip to the console, unfortunately) is available here:
http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=lj_nifty&itemid=52503
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And I'm glad of it, even if I haven't yet had comment problems.