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[dandelion.livejournal.com]

Posts with comments disabled will be deleted (as per the rules of this comm). This is expecially true if they are posts by people who come into a community simply to troll and insult the members (and in rather a hypocritical fashion, might I add, considering the compression on your last usericon).

This is a community for book icons. This is not a ratings community, a "we only accept you if you can jump through hoops for us" icon community, or a place where people come to be insulted. It is just a place to post book icons, and if you feel the inexplicable need to critique something, be constructive about it.

And if you're a coward and keep deleting your inflammatory posts and disabling comments, then I guess that's what the ban tool was made for.

edit: and I just said the exact same thing as Connie :)

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[aquamarcia.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I've only been watching this community for the past week or so and I've somehow managed to miss whatever post(s?) was the source of this controversy. I do, however, have a small concern about the contents of this post.

In the LJ FAQ one finds the following question. I'm including with it part of the answer:

Can I cross-post an entry in multiple journals or communities? (http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=198)

* You can post the full entry in one journal or community and then link directly to that entry from the other journals or communities. When using this method, you may want to disable comments on all entries but the original to ensure that all comments are made in the same place.

Would it be acceptable to make a post to this community with comments turned off under the specific circumstances mentioned in that FAQ answer, or is the rule of leaving comments on all the time an absolute rule?

[dandelion.livejournal.com]

Don't disable comments- we've had situations where someone would link an icon set but it'd be protected so people couldn't see it, or in theory the link could be entirely unrelated to either books or icons and we'd appreciate comments telling people that so that the entry could be removed. You are, however, welcome to direct comments elsewhere. Simply say something like "please comment under the post on my journal and not here".

We do still enforce the no disabling comments rule in that case, yes.

[aquamarcia.livejournal.com]

That's a perfect explanation of the restriction, thanks!

[conuly]

Often when people disable comments, they're doing it because they think that'll make their entries harder to delete. It doesn't, but they keep trying....

If your entry is ontopic and not trollish, and you disabled comments, I'd just comment in your journal and tell you to enable them*. However, if you *consistently* disable comments, then I'd probably resort to deleting-on-sight. If you want people to comment elsewhere, the best way to do that is to just add a link to your journal.

*_{Jazzy might not. Jazzy's usually nicer than I am, though, so who knows?}