Invoking Aahz's Law
Feb. 4th, 2004 09:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
womzillaIn which it is said that the best way to get correct information about a subject is to post incorrect information about it.
I've just been playing with LJ friends groups. One of the features of friends groups is that you can set a group to be "private", which as nearly as I can tell, does nothing at all. I would think that the existence of a private group would not be visible to anyone not logged in to LJ as a member of that group, but that's apparently not true. As a test, I just created a private friends group "nyrsf_cabal" featuring the NYRSF staffers whom I know have LJs, and the contents of it are visible to all.
I would expect that a "public" group would somehow be visible on my User Info page, but that, too, appears to be untrue--the public group "castle" contains![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
supergee and nellorat, but no info about that shows up on my User Info page.
Thus, I posit that "private" and "public" is a meaningless distinction. What say ye, assembled wisdom? What am I missing?
I've just been playing with LJ friends groups. One of the features of friends groups is that you can set a group to be "private", which as nearly as I can tell, does nothing at all. I would think that the existence of a private group would not be visible to anyone not logged in to LJ as a member of that group, but that's apparently not true. As a test, I just created a private friends group "nyrsf_cabal" featuring the NYRSF staffers whom I know have LJs, and the contents of it are visible to all.
I would expect that a "public" group would somehow be visible on my User Info page, but that, too, appears to be untrue--the public group "castle" contains
supergee and nellorat, but no info about that shows up on my User Info page. Thus, I posit that "private" and "public" is a meaningless distinction. What say ye, assembled wisdom? What am I missing?
