My FB cross-posting two pennys worth

[jooles34]

I don't like it, obviously I don't like it. For the same reason no-one else likes it. LJ is a separate part of my life, and I choose when and where they meet, not anyone else.

While I am sure that no-one on my flist would do this without asking, I don't intend to have to close all my posts to friends only, because it defeats the reason I am here. But there are ways to get the ticky boxes off your LJ to remove the temptation from anyone with clicky fingers.

I copied this from emyrldlady who copied it from someone wiser than me. It is so simple even I manage it.



 Thanks to midniterose, here is how to stop the crossposting of comments/entries from LJ to sites like Facebook:

There is a way to disable everything. Here is what you have to do:

1. Go to your "Journal" menu, and select "Journal Style"
2. To the right, you'll see what theme you're using, with a link stating "Customize Your Theme". Click that link.
3. Scroll down a little ways, and you'll see that on the left side of your screen, you have multiple options to modify your theme. Click on the "Custom CSS" link, and it should load the options for doing Custom CSS.
4. From here, all you have to do is go to the "Custom Stylesheet", and put the following line at the bottom.

.b-repost-item {display:none}

once you have it pasted in there, save changes.

Feel free to PASS THIS ON!!

ETA: This prevents the "repost to FB/Twitter" ticky boxes from being displayed when someone comments on one of your posts. It seems to work, UNLESS the person is viewing your page in their own journal style, in which case it might not work.

ETA2: Inserting the code below in your custom CSS box reportedly works for more kinds of journal styles, including custom ones (this courtesy of xnguard) (NB this one did not work for me):

.b-repost-item, FORM#qrform > TABLE[style="border: 1px solid black;"]:last-child TD[style="vertical-align: top; text-align: right;"]:first-child { display: none !important; }