More Dreamwidth settings!

[ljwrites]

In today's edition of "Maybe I should sit down and read the whole settings page," I discovered from the comment section of a journal I visited that there's an option to screen anonymous comments and I enabled it for my own journal. It's in Account Settings > Privacy > comment screening. You can select "anonymous comments" among the screening options.

Below the comment screening setting there are also anti-spam and CAPTCHA options you might find useful. I opted to show CAPTCHA to anonymous commenters and selected text-based anti-spam tests.

At the bottom of the privacy settings I also discovered a couple of search-based options as well. You can decide whether to include your journal in site-wide search, and inclusion is the default so if that's not something you want you should turn it off.

Also, if your journal is searchable you can decide who can use the search function: Any logged-in user, people on your access list (this is the default), or only you. I realized that only people on my access list could search the journal because this is the default option, and changed the setting to enable search for any logged-in user. If I could I'd enable it for everyone.

On the other hand, if you are concerned with harassers, antis, and other assorted dirt-diggers trawling your blog or at least don't want to make it easy for them, you might want to keep your default or restrict search even further to yourself only.