I didn't test communities because I don't own one, and I don't want to do experimentation on something that is not mine. With that being said, I'd venture to guess communities are similar to personal journal in such a way that if the entry is FO, one should not be able to crosspost when posting it to the community. But if the entry is public, I think the poster would have the option of crosspost on FB.
Also I'd imagine that when commenting directly to a flocked entry in a community, one cannot crosspost it on FB. With that being said, one is still able to crosspost a comment to another comment, even if the entry they are commenting on is flocked -- but bear in mind, the only thing that would appear on the crosspost person's FB is his/her own words, nothing from the upstream (or downstream) would be visible.
I tried to figure out why this is the case, and all I can come up with is I think comments by natural differ from an entry in that comments do not have security settings while an entry does. There is no such thing as a flocked comment, only a screened/unscreened which doesn't say anything about the security setting. If a comment is made to a flocked entry, that comment is still "public" to those who can see the entry.
If a community is carrying on a conversation among themselves, and one of them decides to let his/her FB friend know what he/she says, his/her FB friends would only be able to see his/her comment, and they wouldn't be able to see what others are saying if they are not a member of the community, I believe.
I'm still on the fence about whether I would crosspost my entry. I know I definitely wouldn't crosspost any comment I make, but if say, I write about a place I visited, I might want to drop a blurb on my FB just so my friends would know where I've been.
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Date: 2010-09-08 05:35 am (UTC)I didn't test communities because I don't own one, and I don't want to do experimentation on something that is not mine. With that being said, I'd venture to guess communities are similar to personal journal in such a way that if the entry is FO, one should not be able to crosspost when posting it to the community. But if the entry is public, I think the poster would have the option of crosspost on FB.
Also I'd imagine that when commenting directly to a flocked entry in a community, one cannot crosspost it on FB. With that being said, one is still able to crosspost a comment to another comment, even if the entry they are commenting on is flocked -- but bear in mind, the only thing that would appear on the crosspost person's FB is his/her own words, nothing from the upstream (or downstream) would be visible.
I tried to figure out why this is the case, and all I can come up with is I think comments by natural differ from an entry in that comments do not have security settings while an entry does. There is no such thing as a flocked comment, only a screened/unscreened which doesn't say anything about the security setting. If a comment is made to a flocked entry, that comment is still "public" to those who can see the entry.
If a community is carrying on a conversation among themselves, and one of them decides to let his/her FB friend know what he/she says, his/her FB friends would only be able to see his/her comment, and they wouldn't be able to see what others are saying if they are not a member of the community, I believe.
I'm still on the fence about whether I would crosspost my entry. I know I definitely wouldn't crosspost any comment I make, but if say, I write about a place I visited, I might want to drop a blurb on my FB just so my friends would know where I've been.