This is something of a follow-up to my first Dreamwidth primer, because I completely forgot to talk about it. The features discussed in this post will be old hat to people familiar with LJ/DW style comments – this is mostly for Tumblr users.
So, one of the big advantages Dreamwidth has is that you control your posts. If you’ve ever had a post take off, you’ve probably had to deal with a bunch of people you don’t know having a fight about shit you don’t care about in your notes. And sure, you can block them, but there’s only so much you can do when a post really takes off.
On Dreamwidth, it’s way easier to deal with that. You may still run into it from time to time, but it is so much easier to manage. Enter comment screening and freezing.
the basics
If you’ve made a DW post, you’ve probably noticed these three icons in the comments of your entry:
From left to right, those are the icons for delete, screen, and freeze. There’s also a checkbox next to each comment, and at the bottom of your entry you’ll find a dropdown:
And while there’s no way to select all comments at once, you can also just disable them all by editing your post. On the old editor, the option is here:
And on the new editor (which you can enable by going here), you can turn on comment options from the settings.
Note: If you disable comments, no one – not even you – can see them. They’re still there, they’re just hidden until you enable them again. (Alternatively you could just make the post private, but that’s not usually an option in communities.)
This got long again so the rest is behind the cut.
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