... hi! :D re: But... how do you share that with followers? It depends where you want to hold the discussion!
If you want to expound at length on a point in response to something made in comments, you can make your own post, hold the discussion in your space.
If you don't want to make your own post, or you want the discussion to continue within the context of the existing discussion, you can make a post with a link to the comments (if the post is public) saying "user abc and I are having a really interesting discussion over here!"
This depends on the journal owner's policies, of course. The thing is: if an explicit policy isn't in their profile, then you can message them to ask if you're being punctilious. Otherwise, the general... expectation is that if a post is public, it's ok. The user has control: they can freeze threads, they can turn off commenting, they can make the post private, they can turn off notifications or even just request that other users quit it.
Most people absolutely love others jumping into their comments and talking! That's what the site is about! If they don't love it, they'll control access in the first place, or have a policy saying "please don't link me" (which would be weird. I've seen people have "please don't link me to major communities" because they can't deal with the comment volume but never "Don't link me at all." It would be unusual.) They can even just block that one person who's being a jerk, and disable anon comments.
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Date: 2019-01-08 11:38 pm (UTC)re: But... how do you share that with followers?
It depends where you want to hold the discussion!
If you want to expound at length on a point in response to something made in comments, you can make your own post, hold the discussion in your space.
If you don't want to make your own post, or you want the discussion to continue within the context of the existing discussion, you can make a post with a link to the comments (if the post is public) saying "user abc and I are having a really interesting discussion over here!"
This depends on the journal owner's policies, of course. The thing is: if an explicit policy isn't in their profile, then you can message them to ask if you're being punctilious. Otherwise, the general... expectation is that if a post is public, it's ok. The user has control: they can freeze threads, they can turn off commenting, they can make the post private, they can turn off notifications or even just request that other users quit it.
Most people absolutely love others jumping into their comments and talking! That's what the site is about! If they don't love it, they'll control access in the first place, or have a policy saying "please don't link me" (which would be weird. I've seen people have "please don't link me to major communities" because they can't deal with the comment volume but never "Don't link me at all." It would be unusual.) They can even just block that one person who's being a jerk, and disable anon comments.