To help you avoid spoilers
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pegkerrI am re-posting this information to help all those who wish to remain spoiler-free to manage to do so:
(As for my own policy, I will not post any spoilers for either the book or the movie before the release. After the release, I will put everything even slightly spoilerish behind a cut-tag.)
To turn off communities on your friends page, add
?show=p
to the end of the URL, i.e., http://pegkerr.livejournal.com/friends/?show=p
Some good advice from commenters with further instructions on how to avoid spoilers:
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ceildh: If you are determined not to be spoiled, you may want to be careful if you are subscribed to LJ notices, and get notices when someone adds you as a friend - a troll with a spoilery username such as "ddore_dies" could friend you, which seemed to happen a lot last time. (Edited to add: This has happened this time around with harrypooter and wasteofpages) Also they could comment to you, which you'd get notification of, so you may want to temporarily enable commenting as friends-only or turn off receiving comments by e-mail. you can do this by going to http://www.livejournal.com/manage/subscriptions/ and unchecking the appropriate box.
You can avoid seeing your commenters' icons if you turn off icons and then read comments to your posts only on your Recent Comments page (you have to be logged in, and then go to http://www.livejournal.com/tools/recent_comments.bml and read them there).
Remember that if you have set up a spoil-free group among your friends list of people who have agreed not to post spoilers except under cut-tags, people can comment to them with spoilers, esp. if they haven't set their comments as friends-only. Think twice before attempting to read comments on any one else's journal.
[Edited to add: Note:bohemianspirit warns that you should SAVE A COPY OF YOUR CUSTOM ADJUSTMENTS before making any of the following suggested changes.]
Fromlaurel: This is the page you want for turning off userpics in your LJ style/scheme (assuming you use a S2 style). 'Course that just applies to your theme so only works when viewing your f-list with your own journal style (not whatever the default LJ style is).
If you care about mood icons, you can adjust those settings from the look and feel tab and say that you want all mood icons anywhere to be the ones you set (rather than what others want in their LJ posts).
All this stuff should be under www.livejournal.com/customize/ (just in case my other links don't work).
Oh-- another simpler (maybe?) way is available from this page. You can have all icons replaced with a placeholder image. Took me a while to find that page, you think it'd be somewhere obvious!
(Yeah, yeah, this is all somewhat absurd, I'll admit. I am going to great lengths: Rob's going to be checking my e-mail for me this week. But I'm hoping it's going to work to keep me unspoiled.
(As for my own policy, I will not post any spoilers for either the book or the movie before the release. After the release, I will put everything even slightly spoilerish behind a cut-tag.)
To turn off communities on your friends page, add
?show=p
to the end of the URL, i.e., http://pegkerr.livejournal.com/friends/?show=p
Some good advice from commenters with further instructions on how to avoid spoilers:
From
ceildh: If you are determined not to be spoiled, you may want to be careful if you are subscribed to LJ notices, and get notices when someone adds you as a friend - a troll with a spoilery username such as "ddore_dies" could friend you, which seemed to happen a lot last time. (Edited to add: This has happened this time around with harrypooter and wasteofpages) Also they could comment to you, which you'd get notification of, so you may want to temporarily enable commenting as friends-only or turn off receiving comments by e-mail. you can do this by going to http://www.livejournal.com/manage/subscriptions/ and unchecking the appropriate box.You can avoid seeing your commenters' icons if you turn off icons and then read comments to your posts only on your Recent Comments page (you have to be logged in, and then go to http://www.livejournal.com/tools/recent_comments.bml and read them there).
Remember that if you have set up a spoil-free group among your friends list of people who have agreed not to post spoilers except under cut-tags, people can comment to them with spoilers, esp. if they haven't set their comments as friends-only. Think twice before attempting to read comments on any one else's journal.
[Edited to add: Note:
bohemianspirit warns that you should SAVE A COPY OF YOUR CUSTOM ADJUSTMENTS before making any of the following suggested changes.]From
laurel: This is the page you want for turning off userpics in your LJ style/scheme (assuming you use a S2 style). 'Course that just applies to your theme so only works when viewing your f-list with your own journal style (not whatever the default LJ style is). If you care about mood icons, you can adjust those settings from the look and feel tab and say that you want all mood icons anywhere to be the ones you set (rather than what others want in their LJ posts).
All this stuff should be under www.livejournal.com/customize/ (just in case my other links don't work).
Oh-- another simpler (maybe?) way is available from this page. You can have all icons replaced with a placeholder image. Took me a while to find that page, you think it'd be somewhere obvious!
(Yeah, yeah, this is all somewhat absurd, I'll admit. I am going to great lengths: Rob's going to be checking my e-mail for me this week. But I'm hoping it's going to work to keep me unspoiled.
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I think I'm gonna stay offline till sometime Sunday
Date: 2007-07-17 10:52 pm (UTC)If I'm not able to get a copy at Target,
GOOD LUCK, PEG!!!