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Title
Remove the autoplay option for videos posted

Short, concise description of the idea
I would like to be able to remove the autoplay option from a video, even if the original poster included it.

Full description of the idea
In reading my friends page several times people have placed videos in communities that used the autoplay option with the intent to annoy. I'd like for there to be a mechanic where either I (on my friends page) or the community maintainer (via their options page) could disable autoplay for videos.

An ordered list of benefits

• Less annoying. Would remove another way that people will try to harass other people on LiveJournal.

An ordered list of problems/issues involved

• Unsure of implementation. Could be code intensive, I'm not sure.

Title
Identification for Official LiveJournal Communities

Short, concise description of the idea
Create an identification section for official LiveJournal communities similar to that of the "Partner :" and "Sponsered :" identifications.

Full description of the idea
When I was looking at a friend's profile, I noticed in the "Member of :" section that there was a grouping for "Partner" and "Sponsdered" communities. It looked as follows:

Partner (1): partner_name
Sponsored (1): sponser_name

Perhaps this designation can be applied for all official LiveJournal communities (news, community_promo, lj_support, etc.). For example, the preceding text in the "Member of :" section of the profile could say "Official LiveJournal Community :" or "Official :". All others would just be in a "Community" section.

The [revised] profile could look something like this:

Member of (4):
Partner (1): partner_name
Sponsored (1): sponser_name
Official (1): official_name
Community (1): community_name

An ordered list of benefits

• More asily identifiable communities/categories in profile
• Already adding to the community/profile background in place (i.e. the breakouts for sponsers and partner communities"
• For LiveJournal employees and volunteers, the breakout could look more prestigous in your profile and not get lumped in with all the regular communities you may be a part of

An ordered list of problems/issues involved

• Time and effort in implementing

Title
Way to leave notes on FAQs for Support-types and other priv-having people

Short, concise description of the idea
I wish there was a way to leave internal comment-type notes on certain FAQs to give Support-types and other people with privs more information than what the average user needs.

Full description of the idea
In Support, there is a way to leave internal comments (ICs) on requests to discuss the issue at hand internally before the user sees it. It's a way to help the Support-types communicate various things before getting back to the user with a final answer. They're stupidly helpful sometimes, and I would love to see something similar implemented in the FAQ. This feature would come in particularly handy when used on a FAQ that is referring to a common problem/issue and would enable Support to better handle issues as they appear.

An ordered list of benefits

• Better dissemination of information between Support volunteers
• Increased access to information

An ordered list of problems/issues involved

• Who would have editing control over these FAQ ICs? This would need to be worked out before this was implemented.
• May be difficult to implement with the current FAQ structure.

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Cartoon for Today, Jul 11, 2009

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Proud to be number 7: Are you a geek? Do you have what it takes? The Geek Chic Checklist. Thanks to Grzegorz G. for the link!

So I've spent the better part of every week for the past six weeks in a deposition. I think, in fact, I've spent no more than a single day in the office at a time. This is pretty amazing, given that in prior months I had maybe a week of deposition time away from the office, tops. The down side is that I will be working this Sunday to draft motions and write reports and do other housekeeping type tasks. The up side is I've been all over the place, I've been able to chat with jonah777 in between questions, and my hours rock!

Monday I learned I was desperately needed in Milwaukee/Des Plaines, and at 11 pm I was on a plane and off to the Midwestern heat wave. Gah. Fortunately my friend S--also my houseguest this week!--drove me to SFO. I was looking forward to Friday in the office (time to do some work, Friday social hour) until I hit Denver. Denver has figured out that wifi is supposed to be free, but the idiots who designed the "new" airport somehow thought that two outlet plugs PER GATE were sufficient. Were they on drugs? In DIA I learned I would be headed to Pittsburg (CA, thankfully) today. Okay, I'm flexible. The ever wonderful don_negro picked me up at OAK and fed me some hard cider and chili before I crashed.

Fortunately S is the BEST houseguest ever. She ran the dishwasher, folded my laundry, and left me some Charles Chocolates. YUM!

This morning I vaguely overslept, since Potter was in a cuddly kind of mood, and had just enough time to shower, drop documents at the office, and obtain coffee before the deposition started. TGIF people, seriously. We ended after 5, which put me home after 6, though I stopped at BART to drop off a San Francisco-based attorney who was without wheels. I then napped with Potter, which was delicious. Seriously, some hotels have lovely fluffy beds, but there is nothing like being HOME.

The evening was frittered away playing Dark Cloud, drinking Murphy-Goode wine (they didn't even consider me for their PR position, FYI), and petting the cat. Life is good. (Did I mention it is payday?)

Next week was supposed to be three days in the office followed by two in Auburn/Foresthill, until the already swamped trial team lost a motion today and needs all hands on deck. Hence I'm taking another deposition for the first three days of the week (in town, thankfully) before heading out East. Busy, busy, and business is good.

Tomorrow is the firm's annual summer picnic. I'm planning to sleep in, then figure out what foodstuffs I will be taking with me to the noon pig out. I'm not going to stay too late, so I can manage to hit II* at Blazing Star in the evening. I'm sure midnight will find me one tired girl. Sunday I'm sleeping in, and headed to work so I don't miss any of this week's deadlines.

Hope this finds you all well.

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Ok... this is a hoot... I'm basically hosting my brother Jim's Garage sale (I'll have some stuff out, but not a ton, they have the lion's share) - he brought over the 'collectibles' part of it this afternoon... and HOLY CARP! my living room is *FILLED* will Star Trek stuff... boxes and stacks... looks like a convention exploded in there... some of it is laughable junk, but seriously, if you're a star trek fan - even if you wouldn't in a million years buy any of this stuff - you should come look at it. I'm going to take some pictures when it's all set out tomorrow, just for posterity, but I'm kinda looking forward to spending part of tomorrow browsing and playing with some of this stuff :-D also there's signed baseballs and stuff like that.

Anyway... just thought I'd say. Ping me if you need directions or something. Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 6pm - don't come early unless I really really love you :-*

Current Mood: amused
Current Music: Star Trek Theme (the original, of course)

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I am inordinately pleased to announce that my cucumber plants are blooming, and I have teeny tiny poblano peppers growing. Even the tomatoes are blooming. I love having a garden!

Car is back - they swear it was just a dead battery. While I was there I got an alignment and my SRS bag replaced.

Neighbor got a job. Go dude! We've been working on his behalf for some time now.

Just put up my first ever batch of pickles. I haven't done water bath canning in at least fifteen years. Here's hoping I remembered everything and did it right! I've been consulting my copy of Putting Food By throughout the process.

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This time via Maureen Ryan's "The Watcher" blog from the Chicago Tribune.

...if one exists.  I'm searching for one of David looking particularly evil, mischievous, or devious.  It can have words or not.  If anyone knows of one out there, please point me in the right direction.  Thanks in advance!

Title
Modification to how friends (and ex-friends) are managed

Short, concise description of the idea
Currently anyone who friends you or you have ever friended appears in the Add or Remove Friends matrix. It seems to be impossible to change the colors of ex friends without re-friending them. Also the table gets cluttered by LJ names that are defunct or will otherwise never be used again.

Full description of the idea
On the Add/Remove page I changed the colors of all old (ex) friends as a reminder why they were ex-friends. (Dark gray meaning "missing in action", Orange for "argumentative annoyance", etc.) I didn't realize until after I'd done it that changing the colors RE-friends EX-friends (some of whom are still on LJ, but I really don't want to refriend -- makes it a little awkward if they have notifications turned on, eh?) I thought as long as I didn't check the add/remove box next to the account name, it would not affect the f-status.

Also, the table gets cluttered with dormant accounts after several years -- "dormant" in this case meaning
A. the LJ page still exists, but the user clearly has moved on years ago, or
B. you have no intention of ever friending this anonymous person who friended you, or
C. they were un-friended by you, but for whatever reasoon haven't removed you from their f-list.

As far as I can tell, there's no way to remove accounts from this table unless the account holder deletes the account him/her self. If there is a way, please tell me what it is.

Would it be possible to do the following:
1) Allow color changes WITHOUT changing the Friend Status?
2) Allow color changes to custom filters en masse?
3) On the Add/Remove Friends and Set Custom Color page, have a way to segregate (or even remove completely) dormant and ex-friends?

An ordered list of benefits

• 1. Makes it easier (and more likely) users will use custom color feature, and easier to organize one's LJ page and custom filters.
• 2. Declutters the add/remove friends page -- especially helpful if you have a large f-list or have been on LJ for years.
• 3. Lessens possibility of accidentally re-friending someone you were only too happy to un-friend in the first place. (Probably happens more often than we like to admit.)
• 4. Gives us AR types who obsessively color-code everything a thrill. (Only half-joking.)

An ordered list of problems/issues involved

• 1. If inactive friends were removed from the add/remove friends page and someone wanted to re-add a person, they might have to go to more trouble than one little click -- but, come on, how lazy is that, really?
• 2. Would probably totally mess with the profile page friend classifications. I see the need to show who has friended someone on the profile page and to have a way to add them -- just not all jumbled together in the same matrix on the Add/Remove page. I don't know anything about coding and table links to know how big a headache this would be.

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From the Wikipedia article on abolitionism (using technology to eliminate all involuntary suffering):

"In 2006, Guy Debonnel and his colleagues at McGill University published results^[13] which proved for the first time that depression could be entirely eliminated through gene manipulation. When a certain gene affecting serotonin levels was removed from the brains of mice, the rodents became happy no matter their circumstances and no matter how depressed they would normally be.^[14]

An important discovery that boosts the case for the potential to abolish suffering is the example of deep brain stimulation of the brain's pleasure centers. The direct electrical stimulation does not create tolerance proving that there is a potential to overcome the brain's anhedonic homeostatic mechanisms.^{[citation needed]} Pacemaker-type neurostimulators have been proven to reliably increase subjective happiness without causing detriments to functionality: these interventions have proven to actually increase various cognitive and social aspects of human functionality."

I shall look into these ideas more.

( The Midsummer Magick Faire - a Bardic Tale. It's an event promotion. I'm hiding it behind an lj cut because I am a considerate event promoter, and I love this community, but I'm really really excited about this. )