LJ again gives us something we don't want.

[karadinart]

Users who have enabled Comment IP logging will now also see the Country and City information of the commenter. This information is only visible to the journal owner, community owner/maintainers, or author of the entry if it is posted to a community with this feature enabled (only those who can currently see IP information). This feature is providing the publicly available geo-location associated with the IP address in the same way the "location" feature on our Update page currently functions.

By the way, this change is RETROACTIVE


NOTE: LJ has decided to rollback this feature. Wow, and it' didn't take weeks and thousands upon thousands of Do Not Want comments, but most probably due to the situation of making the addresses of minors available.

***I have to take son to OT, then spouse to a physical, but will be back for a bit mid-day to talk more things like GACKT, but I am thinking his new GacktJOB might be brilliant, I'm willing to believe.

Comments

[pyroyale.livejournal.com]

Hmm, that location thing is kinda strange. For me, it lists a city in my prefecture that is miles away from where I live. I've never even heard of it. It must be the internet exchange, whereas if I get an entry to log my location, it will be my actual city.

[aidannwn.livejournal.com]

That's not very nice. There, I've lost my exotic mysteriousness. :P

But really, it feels like another invasion of privacy because I don't use my location or my real name in my lj and now ...

[karadin.livejournal.com]

It does feel like an invasion of privacy a bit, I think, who needs to know exactly where I am from? But then a public search on my rl name will pretty much show everything...

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

LJ's rolling back the location thing. I mean, I don't care if people know where I live (and it lists me as being in the wrong country anyway) but am uncomfortable with people knowing where I am all the time, and some other people have had much more important problems with this stuff.

[karadin.livejournal.com]

I'm glad they are rolling back, but wish they wouldn't make these stupid decisions to begin with, as one comment said, if members have to vote on a banner, they should be able to vote on privacy issues.

[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

Oh, definitely.