For the Denizens it's the same reason people make roleplaying journals, to some extent --ability to have conversations in comments that actually read correctly to other people.
For some of the other journals, it's an extra layer of security. If you fuck up the privacy settings, then suddenly something that was _really_ not public becomes so. And even if you catch it quickly and fix the settings, it turns out that people who get emailed posts will see the email from the public post, and then send you a question all "did I miss something?" when they can't see the now-private post.
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on 2020-05-26 08:21 pm (UTC)For some of the other journals, it's an extra layer of security. If you fuck up the privacy settings, then suddenly something that was _really_ not public becomes so. And even if you catch it quickly and fix the settings, it turns out that people who get emailed posts will see the email from the public post, and then send you a question all "did I miss something?" when they can't see the now-private post.
~Sor