Yeah, I know if aggregates ask permission, they tend to be denied or put off or the post gets locked, &c &c.
I thought perhaps a good compromise would be to sort people and link them directly to the issue they're in, and then offer to take down the link if they wanted.
Not to be just negative, but: I don't think that really works -- the link will have been out there long enough that people will have already followed it, and people also get notifications of posts or leave their tabs open and so on. It can be very hard to unring the bell. Then if someone is unhappy with having been linked, they might just delete or lock the post anyway, and think twice about posting public meta in the future.
I think it's partly Tumblr v Dreamwidth yet again. On Tumblr everything was absolutely open and people could find you with universal keywords or reblogs, and so people were very open to dozens or hundreds of strangers reblogging their post and commenting on it. (Or not open, as the case might be.) With Dreamwidth, people are more used to talking to their circles, although most people will also welcome comments from outside circles or even other sites. But that tends to be a trickle, not something that can happen all at once. One reason why I'm on DW is I really disliked the Tumblr pile-ons.
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I thought perhaps a good compromise would be to sort people and link them directly to the issue they're in, and then offer to take down the link if they wanted.
Not to be just negative, but: I don't think that really works -- the link will have been out there long enough that people will have already followed it, and people also get notifications of posts or leave their tabs open and so on. It can be very hard to unring the bell. Then if someone is unhappy with having been linked, they might just delete or lock the post anyway, and think twice about posting public meta in the future.
I think it's partly Tumblr v Dreamwidth yet again. On Tumblr everything was absolutely open and people could find you with universal keywords or reblogs, and so people were very open to dozens or hundreds of strangers reblogging their post and commenting on it. (Or not open, as the case might be.) With Dreamwidth, people are more used to talking to their circles, although most people will also welcome comments from outside circles or even other sites. But that tends to be a trickle, not something that can happen all at once. One reason why I'm on DW is I really disliked the Tumblr pile-ons.