How to hide the FB/Twitter Crossposting Comments feature in your journal

[elfy]

Here is an explaination how to hide the new "crossposting to FB/Twitter" option in your own journal. I followed the steps and they seem to work, at least now the options are gone when I click on reply in one of my entries. It is still there when I hit reply to an entry of another journal that has not applied this. (While this means noone commenting in your journal will see it, I guess the "feature" will be there if someone has not applied the steps and views your journal in her/his own style.)
edit: Might not work for everyone, maybe only for paid users? Please try it anyway!

LJ has a new "feature" whereby anyone who posts a reply on LJ to an entry (whether that entry is locked or not), can have their replies x-posted to Facebook or Twitter. This is an option that shows up when you hit the reply button. In order to avoid the comments (and implicitly the content of the entry) ending up on facebook for every stranger to see, even if only by accident, this is what you have to do:

1. Choose the "Journal" menu, and select "Journal Style"
2. On the right side of the page, there is your theme and below that a link with "Customize Your Theme". Go there
3. Among the options on the left side, there is "Custom CSS", click there.
4. You will see a box with on the left written "Custom Stylesheet", and put in that line : .b-repost-item {display:none}.
5. Take care that even if you use an external stylesheet, this will be included ("YES" on the option above)
6. Save the changes (button below)

To make the crosspost options go away on any entry in any journal, there is a greasemonkey script. But note that this is only for yourself, so it's basically a "page clean up".

ALSO: Please visit the last news entry and voice your opinion on this new feature as well!

Comments

[fusselbiene.livejournal.com]

It seems to depend on the layout whether the code works or not. There's an alternative that seems to work with most layouts:

/* ---FB-Twitter Comment Ticky Fix--- */
.b-repost-items, .b-repost-item, .b-repost-item IMG, #entry-form-wrapper .b-repost-item, b-repost-item-fb {
display: none;
}

.b-repost-item .repost_disabled {
color: #CCC;
display: none;
}

[zeraphita.livejournal.com]

This feature is majorly disturbing.

[gerdimaus.livejournal.com]

Was man noch ausprobieren kann, wenn es nicht klappt:
Und zwar in den Optionen (hier: http://www.livejournal.com/customize/options.bml) die Option "Disable customized comment pages for your journal" auf "no" setzen.

[zeraphita.livejournal.com]

Ich bin mir aber nicht sicher, ob das nicht nur ausschaltet, daß man selbst crossposten kann, also mit diesem Account...

[gerdimaus.livejournal.com]

Ich meinte, dass man diese Einstellung zusätzlich zu der Veränderung, die elfy als kleine Anleitung gepostet hat, verwenden soll, falls es nicht funktioniert.

[bluemchenblatt.livejournal.com]

Dankeschön.

[jassanja.livejournal.com]

Happy Birthday

[nimmer-mehr.livejournal.com]

Habs auch bei mir gepostet!

Dieses "Feature" ist echt... unnötig bis verstörend, ja.