oops

[cellio]

I'm going to repost this with the paragraphs fixed. I didn't know that LiveJournal wouldn't let me edit journal entries I made in places other than my own journal. I hope Ralph will delete the messed-up entries, as I can't.

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[ralphmelton.livejournal.com]

This is so wrong. I can't edit your entries from the ralph_dnd account, but I can edit your entries from my ralphmelton account.

I'm going to ask a stupid question: are you sure you can't edit them? (I've been editing through the web interface.)

Grumpf. Maybe I need to start contributing to the LJ code. I'd really rather not get into that.

[cellio]

That's weird! I figured you'd have to be logged in as ralph_dnd.

When I follow the "edit entries" link and ask for either the last 20 or all the entries for that day, I get only the entries in my own journal. Nothing from ralph_dnd. Even when one of those entries was my most recent entry and I chose that option, it offered me the last entry from my own journal instead.

I don't see any sort of "edit me" option associated with entries in the journal itself. I see no way in the edit dialogue to select a journal.

How are you doing this?

[cellio]

Oh. Hmm. How counter-intuitive.

I found it in the FAQ. I have to go to the comments view of the entry and then select one of the icons at the top (the pencil) -- there are no text links -- and that will put me into an edit dialogue. I just successfully removed one of the entries doing this.

[ralphmelton.livejournal.com]

I figured I'd have to be logged on as ralph_dnd too. I'm kind of sad that I can edit your entries.

Here's my path:
Start at the ralph_dnd journal's recent entries.
Choose an entry.
Follow the 'comment' link.
At the top of the comment page, I see a little bar of six icons: left arrow, heart, pencil, folder, envelope, right arrow.
Clicking on the pencil icon lets me edit the entry.

[cellio]

Wow, you shouldn't be able to edit my entries. That probably means anybody can. And it looks like you successfully edited one of mine (to delete it), right? So it's not just that it offers you the dialogue and then says "oops, you don't have permission", the way it does if you try to post a comment in a closed community that you're not a member of. (That is another interface irritant; it should check that before I start to type, not after I'm done.)

[cellio]

I just tried to edit one of your posts, and it didn't offer me the pencil. So (to enumerate all the possibilities, though I don't believe all are valid), either my posts are special, or your posts are special, or your status is special (maybe you're the "best friend" and can thus edit), or LJ is behaving oddly and all of this will be different tomorrow.

ralph_dnd is a separate ID and this is its journal; to the system that should be identical to it being a human. Unless you are somehow simultaneously logged in as both you and it? I didn't think of that. Do the browser cookies permit that kind of thing?

[ralphmelton.livejournal.com]

The good news is that I can only edit your entries in the D&D journal, not your other entries.

Maybe it's because I'm listed as the maintainer of the journal, in which case it would be okay. Can you try to edit one of my entries, please?

[ralphmelton.livejournal.com]

I should also make quite clear that it's ultramegafabulous that you're writing these entries. I'm getting ideas from them already!

[cellio]

Ah, so my simultaneously-posted "best friend" theory wasn't as far out as I thought it was...

[cellio]

Thanks; I'm glad you like them.

I was going to just start with the adventuring, but then I figured I could express a tiny bit of the character background by starting early, and the process could give you some hooks that you could use or not as you like. So if it's harmless entertaining background, cool. If (say) Ferdinand resurfaces (as either a teacher or a fugitive), also cool.