mindset
2007-10-12 09:07 am UTC (link)

Much like LJSeek, Google, and the Wayback Machine, the only way it can show you private or flocked posts is if they were originally posted open. No security breach, just the power of archiving.

Theoretically if you set no-robots on your LJ, you can block most stuff, but it doesn't help with services that ignore that, like this one. Best I could suggest is post to their LJ as directed.

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	ladysorka 2007-10-12 04:43 pm UTC (link)
	There is a secret way to get things like that that don't honor robot tags to stop archiving you, involving going into the admin console and changing how much of your posts are released in rss feeds - you have to switch it to title only. But god knows what the code is, I've long since forgotten it. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ladysorka 2007-10-12 04:49 pm UTC (link)
	Found it! set synlevel title The default is full - you can also set to "summary". This won't get rid of the old posts, but it will virtually make your journal unarchivable on those things, as what they actually archive is the rss feeds, which is why if a post was public, even for a minute, they have it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	aoibhe 2007-10-12 05:04 pm UTC (link)
	Thank you for that. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	youngcurmudgeon 2007-10-12 06:28 pm UTC (link)
	OT, but: icon love. Steve ftw. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mindset 2007-10-12 05:57 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks! I knew there was some console thing that helped but damned if I could remember what it was. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jarofclay 2007-10-13 10:56 am UTC (link)
	Wow, thank you. Good tip. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rogue 2007-10-13 06:38 pm UTC (link)
	That's awesome! Thanks very much. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	herongale 2007-10-12 07:30 pm UTC (link)
	Wow, that's useful (for an insane friends-only freak who nonetheless is sometimes sloppy enough to accidentally post things publically for a second before I realize the mistake). Thanks! (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mindset 2007-10-12 08:20 pm UTC (link)
	FYI, one of the latest LJ upgrades lets you set the default privacy level of new posts, here. (You could do it via console before, but now they have it in the interface.) It doesn't seem to change the privacy dropdown when posting, but the post is flocked anyway. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	herongale 2007-10-13 12:24 am UTC (link)
	Wow, another useful tip! I don't mind using the admin console but I hadn't even thought about the idea of changing my default posting level before. I just always assumed it could not be done. Thank you, thank you! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cmikhailovic 2007-10-12 10:50 pm UTC (link)
	This is a supremely dumb question, but how do I get into the admin console? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bolboreta 2007-10-12 11:11 pm UTC (link)
	http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console/ For future reference, if you enter "admin console" in the FAQs search, it'll bring up topics where its mentioned with a link. I still haven't found a link from the manage accounts page. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ladysorka 2007-10-13 12:09 am UTC (link)
	http://www.livejournal.com/admin/console/ (Reply to this)(Parent)

	wankaholic 2007-10-12 05:18 pm UTC (link)
	Agreeing with everyone else here; I looked for my journal, and I was only able to find instances where other people had mentioned me. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	mindset 2007-10-12 05:56 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, that's not the problem. This is the problem. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	wankaholic 2007-10-12 06:14 pm UTC (link)
	Hm. But as someone else mentioned, those were all public at one point or another, even if only by accident. Oh well. At least I'm boring enough no one's going to go searching for me. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	mindset 2007-10-12 06:31 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, it doesn't bother me much either. But you know, paranoids. :) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	wankaholic 2007-10-12 06:37 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, and I can understand the paranoia. On my old journal, there were things I forgot to flock that if I hadn't fixed quickly, would have have caused a lot of trouble. If they resurfaced on that site, and someone went searching for them . . . well. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	black_spot 2007-10-12 08:37 pm UTC (link)
	It didn’t even show my latest public post. I got better results from google. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	msilverstar 2007-10-13 01:44 am UTC (link)
	me too. and I don't have the low-profile option on my journal at all. I'm moderately good at making sure my private posts are at least locked... (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kittikattie 2007-10-13 05:26 am UTC (link)
	The furthest back I got was March of 2006. O_o (Reply to this)(Parent)

	gwen 2007-10-13 08:56 pm UTC (link)
	Mmm. I asked to be removed a while back and it took them about 3 days to do it. (Reply to this)

	imp 2007-10-14 12:08 pm UTC (link)
	Oh dear... This kinda thing freaks so much. Thank for posting this! (Reply to this)