rainbow: (Default)
All the Colours of the Me ([personal profile] rainbow) wrote in [site community profile] dw_docs2009-04-17 12:11 pm

locked vs protected?

Is there a preference for using "locked" or "protected" when referring to journals and entries?

I'm seeing a bit of each and ::cough:: I'm a bugger for consistency....
helen99: Another Magic Garden (Another Magic Garden)

[personal profile] helen99 2009-04-17 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I always thought Locked and Protected referred to two different things - that is, "Locked" implied "General Access List" and "Protected" implied a specific Access Filter.

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[personal profile] alsatia 2009-04-17 10:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Whereas to me "protected" is any entry that's neither public nor private (whether filtered or not), and "locked" is...I don't know. I always think of "locked" as being related to comment threads, but I guess the terminology in use is actually "frozen".
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[personal profile] ivorygates 2009-04-18 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Um... I think we shouldn't be trying to herd *three* entry definitions (public entries versus access list entries versus filter-list only entries) and just use one NOT!YOU term for entries that Average Account Holder cannot see if Other Average Account Holder has not given them Access. And based on Stuff In The Wiki, I believe the term generally used there is "Protected", as in "Protected Content".

A journal that cannot be read except by persons to whom the account holder's has given access contains nothing but Protected Content.

An entry in a journal whose entries are otherwise visible to anyone who has subscribed to an account holder's journal, but this entry is only visible to some subset of that group, whether an Access Filter, or the whole of the account holder's Access List, is a Protected Entry.

Opinions?
Edited 2009-04-18 01:12 (UTC)
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[personal profile] ivorygates 2009-04-18 02:38 am (UTC)(link)
Hm, I think that works for me.

[personal profile] rho 2009-04-18 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
I've no particular opinion on this, so if that works for both of you, let's go with that.
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[personal profile] ivorygates 2009-04-18 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Cool!