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I'm not sure if you all have seen the new Live Journal terms of service, but in my mind, they seriously compromise the ability of this site to serve as a forum for our community: http://www.livejournal.com/legal/tos-en.bml

In short, Livejournal users are now governed by Russian law, and risk having posts removed or accounts deleted if they don't comply with it. Among other things, "Political solicitation" is now banned, meaning no more talking about Aldermanic or state legislative races. Any discussion of LGBT rights will require the "adult content" label to avoid running afoul of the "Gay Propaganda" laws of the Russian Federation.

While moving will certainly be disruptive, in the long run, I think it is essential if this is going to remain a home of free discussion of issues pertinent to Davis Square. I welcome your thoughts on this.

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There is unfortunately no way to cause automatic cross-posting (of either top posts or comments) from Dreamwidth to LiveJournal for a community, like one might do for a personal journal. The best we can do is enqueue another import or two, until people stop posting here and start posting exclusively over there.

Ron, I think I can do better: I think I have everything I need* to set up a system such that when somebody posts to the DW comm, a post is automatically made here to LJ saying "User: USERNAME posted: TITLE OF POST on Dreamwidth, come join us there." with the title a link to the DW post. You could then restrict posting here to just the account doing the cross-posting (I would set up a new LJ account just for the purpose.)

I just can't do it right now due to being utterly hosed.

[* If somebody wanted to come up with a perl script that takes the body of a DW tracking notification email as an input on STDIN, and returns the URL of the post as a string, that would be the one thing I don't have immediately to hand and would shorten my development cycle by however long it would take me to write that. ]