Posted in Tech Support
After reading today's post about Blog Safety, Purewater had some good questions. The answer to them got a little long-winded so I decided to just make a whole new entry. Here's his question and my response.
Privacy Default question
OK, this has got me thinking and your link to the "Rocks In My Dryer" post has me a bit concerned.
What would happen if I go to the settings and change the "Privacy
Default for New Entries" to just friends? Would that make all of the
past posts private also, or just new ones? What would it look like to
someone who is not on my "friend" list when they would try to see my
blog?
Would there be any way for a strange person to get to my blog if I did that?
What do you think the major drawbacks of doing such would be?
Thanks for the thought provoking post!
My response
These are all great questions.
- If you change the privacy default for new entries, that would only affect NEW entries. Your archived ones would still be available to anyone.
- If you wanted to change the ones in your archive, you would need to go into your blog manager. Click on edit for each individual entry. Then at the bottom, click on advanced options. You could then click on Only Friends or Only Registered Users (or whatever you choose) and then click on Save Changes.
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To view this private entry, you must be a friend of this weblog's author.
To view this private entry, you must be a friend of this weblog's author.
And if they look at your blog, they will only see the entries that you've allowed. If you haven't allowed any then it would just show them your header and sidebar information.
Safe Blogging,
~Nancy
- Setting your blog to be viewed by Friends Only pretty much would keep strangers from getting to your blog. There really isn't any way to get around it that I know of.
- The drawbacks to putting your settings to Friends Only are that it would prohibit family members or friends without a HomesteadBlogger blog from seeing and commenting on your blog and that it would prohibit newer bloggers from being able to get to know you through your blog.
- One option would be to allow only Registered Users to view your blog. That way any HomesteadBlogger could view your blog so you would still get to meet newer bloggers, but you'd be somewhat protected from total strangers. That of course, isn't totally safe. People can totally fake who they are, but you just have to determine your own comfort level.
Safe Blogging,
~Nancy
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