Prepare for a barrage of old fic posts

[kerravonsen]

It has been pointed out that much of the fic on my site doesn't have an actual place to make comments on it. Since I don't have my site set up for comments, it has been my practice to link to LJ posts for the said stories, but I just realized that stories written before I had set up that policy don't actually have posts for them. So very soon I'm going to be spamming my flist with placeholder comment posts for older fic, so please excuse me.

ETA: Okay, it looks like one can set a post not to display on reading pages, so I'll do that - but be prepared for mistakes; it you see suddenly appearing and disappearing posts, that will be why.

Comments

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Sounds good to me :)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

If you backdate them, they may not show on flists. I'm not sure how backdating works, but I think that would work.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

I will take it as it comes - or leaves :-)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

one can set a post not to display on reading pages

I never knew that. How did you do that?

[kerravonsen]

On LJ, click the "Edit" link next to the date; there will be revealed a date-editing form, plus a ticky box saying "date out of order".
On Dreamwidth, the set up is similar, but more informative:
click on "Edit date", and tick the ticky box which says "Don't show on Reading Pages (allows dating out of order)".
If you're cross-posting, then the Dreamwidth settings will be set for LJ also.

When that setting is on, then the post will still display in one's "Recent entries" page, but won't display on people's "friends"/"reading" pages.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I've seen that but never used it. It's not very well described, is it? So you didn't even have to change the date, it seems. My suggestion was to date the entries in the past so that they wouldn't appear, not that I've ever tried it myself, but this works a lot better.