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vettecatA friend points out that if a friend of yours creates a DreamWidth account, and imports their journal... and you've ever commented on their journal... it creates an account for you, too. Without approval or permission. So if someone looks for you on DW, it'll look like you're active there, though you may not have ever used the site at all, or have any desire to. Seems rather creepy.
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Date: 2009-05-06 05:49 pm (UTC)In that sense, it's no worse than, say, some mailing list archive site that indexes stuff by sender. You may never have used that site, but it's correctly archiving the stuff that you wrote that it knows about.
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Date: 2009-05-06 05:50 pm (UTC)I'll write them and see if I get an answer, and what answer it is.Actually, others have written to Dreamwidth, as I've seen from glancing over the replies to the post that inspired your friend's. There *is* the option of screening the comments, but I admit that is suboptimal.That said... Dreamwidth did advertise the importability of LJ posts including comments, and I find the objection of the person who said "they're reposting my words without my permission!" a bit... overblown. But I consider comments to belong to/with the entries they are appended to. I'm not entirely certain what else, besides *not* importing comments, could have been done.
Besides... well, I'm not going to get into the Dreamwidth backlash right now.