note to self and everyone else

[rm]

You know when you get comment notifications?

You ever have the urge to just forward the comment to someone instead of digging around for the URL?

Don't do that.

Because if they're not paying attention instead of replying to you, they will type into the "reply to comment window" and then they will post as you.

This public service announcement brought to you by *Head* and *Desk*.

Comments

[bodlon.livejournal.com]

It's interesting that this is a Known. Since making a post about it I've looked around some and seen others testing it. So it's not just a Known, it's a confirmed and quite well-functioning Known.

Which is kind of wild-ass scary.

I can see how it is useful - if one has multiple accounts and wants to be able to reply to things quickly, or if one wishes to reply without being logged in, etc. I just think perhaps that it's kind of a creepy work-around in those areas.

If it's intentional in that it's a feature, rather than a bug, it may be helpful to make the issue more explicitly known to users. A reminder at the top of Rich Text notifications, for example, might be useful.

[azurelunatic]

I was quite vigorously unhappy when I ran into it last year.

I started some pinging up the proper lines of communication, although I'm not sure when the relevant portions of staff are expected to actually be awake/on duty, nor what priority it's going to get assigned.