Comment notification weirdness

[chess]

It appears that when someone posts a reply to your comment on someone else's LJ, even if that comment would be screened by default by that other LJ's settings (e.g. due to anonymity / not being on the friends list), you get emailed the comment.

I didn't know this and so I suspect some other people don't. I'm not sure if it's relevant outside any contrived situation but I found it vaguely interesting.

Comments

[elektrobard.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure it's a setting in your account settings you can switch on or off. I personally find it quite handy on the more journal-laden days for the purposes of keeping up...

[chess]

I was mostly thinking of the theoretical case 'I have screened comments on my journal because I want to vet comments on my journal before they get shown to anyone else - but actually LJ is showing them to the person they're a reply to, as well!' as the one that might be troublesome...

[elektrobard.livejournal.com]

Ah I see. Didn't think it sent them out if they were screened, but I could well be wrong. Comment screening isn't something I tend to use too often, so perhaps don't know much about!

[chess]

This PSA was meant to say 'yes, it does send them out if they are screened, beware' but obviously I was less clear than I thought I was being :)

[elektrobard.livejournal.com]

I suspect with a brain heavily dosed up with flu recovery drugs I might not be able to read much clearly anyway :)

[phlebas.livejournal.com]

Or conversely 'I have commented for the eyes of the person whose journal it is, safe in the knowledge that nobody else will see it because it's screened'.

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

Well... yeah? If you reply to someone/receive a reply it gets e-mailed out so as that the reply goes to the person that you're presumably directing your comment at. =/

[theinquisitor.livejournal.com]

Isn't the point that a reply-to-a-comment is considered as being at least as much 'for' the person whose comment it is, as it is the person who originated the post?

Had to work through a load of design issues for something similar last month, and there's a lot of trouble codifying what's 'going on' with standard threading.