Crossposting to Twitter? A poll.

[trobadora]

*waves to you all*

Hey, so it turns out that, with a bit of setup, there's a way to automatically crosspost from Dreamwidth to Twitter (much thanks to glymr for this info!), and we're thinking of setting that up for sid_guardian, but we wanted to check in with you first. The tweets would just include subject lines and links to new posts on the comm, with some Twitter tags added.

Poll #25419 Crosspost to Twitter

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 17

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Should we set up sid_guardian to crosspost to Twitter?

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Yes, yay!
11 (64.7%)

I have some reservations, which I'll tell you about in the comments.
2 (11.8%)

I'd prefer it if you didn't.
4 (23.5%)

I have another idea to promote sid_guardian, which I'll tell you about in the comments.
0 (0.0%)

ETA: Thank you all for weighing in! We definitely don't want to make people uncomfortable by crossposting against their wishes, so we won’t be going forward with this.

Comments

[cyberbrain]

Would this be mandatory? Can I still opt out for my own posts or would everything get crossposted, no exceptions?

[trobadora]

The crossposting would be automated. If we do set it up for the comm, it would be everything except locked posts.

There may be other ways to do it - I think it might be possible to set up crossposting only for a specific tag - but then everyone would have to remember to tag their posts for them to crosspost.

ETA: Can I ask what exactly you're concerned about? Whatever we end up doing or not doing, we definitely want to take it into account!

[cyberbrain]

I dislike twitter as a platform (even though I'm on it) and apparently can't figure out how to use it effectively. I made my account private last summer because I didn't feel comfortable with anyone being able to see my tweets.

...I feel like I'm breaking an unspoken rule by saying this but, on average, DW users seem to prefer the drama, while twitter users overall prefer the novel (this has led to some minor clashes). I'm unsure if mixing the two communities would be worthwhile.

[trobadora]

Thank you for sharing your perspective! I see what you mean. We definitely don't want to make people uncomfortable by signal-boosting when they'd rather not, which is why we asked first.

I haven't been on Twitter in about ten years myself, and I don't know much about what the Guardian community is like, other than what people who are on both platforms sometimes share. But that was the impression I got from tumblr - that people there mostly preferred the novel. I do know I'm happy to have found lots of people here on DW who love the drama!

[mecurtin]

My reservations boil down to 'vague old-fashioned fears of crossing the streams'

[trobadora]

Could you elaborate? I'm not sure what streams would be crossed here.

[enviropony]

I'd prefer if you didn't, but I don't post a lot of comments or anything, and I can see that I'm gonna get outvoted. :-p

My concern is that Twitter shares a lot of space with non-fandom personalities, activities, etc. That's true of every platform to an extent, but on Twitter it's a lot easier to find and read any post you want.

I suppose it wouldn't be an issue if you made the Twitter feed private, so only people who are subscribed would be able to see the posts. That would make it more insular, and less accessible to "muggles" or just to people who are looking to start trouble (but don't use DW because it's for fandom olds or something XD).

I'm not on Twitter and don't plan to be, so it's not gonna do me much good either way, but I don't like the idea of my userid being even easier to find than it already is.

Paranoia strikes; I'mma go lock down some of my DW, maybe :-)

[trobadora]

Thank you for speaking up and letting us know your thoughts! We thought there might be concerns, whcih is why we asked. We definitely don't want to make people uncomfortable here, or crosspost against people's wishes. ♥

[solo]

I didn't vote because I'm hardly ever on twitter, but I don't see a problem since people still have to come to DW to interact with any post, and the moderators can keep an eye on that.

I know twitter can be pretty toxic *coughs*, but otoh, it's just a platform. A lot of fandom happens there, and it's a good platform for spreading news. So I'm for it.

People who are uncomfortable with it can perhaps comm lock their posts, so that whoever arrives actually has to get a DW account in order to see them.

[trobadora]

Thank you for giving us your perspective! I can see that several people are uncomfortable, and we don't want to go around that. I don't think people should have to lock their posts to avoid attention ...

[marycrawford]

I'm on Dreamwidth for reasons. I'm NOT on Twitter for reasons. I am unhappy with putting this community on blast like that.

[trobadora]

Thank you for letting us know! We thought there might be concerns, which is why we asked first.

(I'm not on Twitter myself either, for reasons!)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm late to this poll, and logged out right now, but I really appreciate you not going ahead with this. I'm also someone who chose to be on Dreamwidth to remain in control of my own content and where I share it, I really don't want it on Twitter.

[trobadora]

Thank you for speaking up! We thought there might be concerns, and we completely understand.