eyes LJ worriedly...

[ratcreature]

I've always found the LJ notes feature really useful. Like for example if someone changes usernames I can add a note with the old one. And of course you can make a note if you have less than pleasant run-ins with someone and many other things.

Only just now I'm seeing one of those note stars behind a name for whom I have not added any notes, and yet when I hover I see a note. I don't see the star behind the name in all places as I would if I had added the note, but I do see it in one community post where the user name is linked. I had met the fan online before (the post I noticed it in was notice in kirkspock that easilymused1956 died and the note is behind that name, maybe you see the note star too?), so I double checked, but I really do not have any such note visible on my note management page (also it doesn't make much sense to me). So now I wonder what happened there that made the note, that I assume someone has for this person, visible to me, when it is not mine.

Also I worry whether something could make my own notes visible, or whether I could do something inadvertently that shares my notes. Do you know what happened there?

ETA: It seems to have been due to something the poster did when inserting the name rather than the worst case scenario of LJ randomly displaying notes, and the poster has fixed it now, but I'll certainly make sure to take extra care how I'll insert LJ username codes in the future.

Comments

[zing_och]

I never used the notes feature (probably couldn't with OpenID), and I can see the little star and the mouseover text, too. So ... um, worrying. If you want me to, I can check if I can see your notes, too?

ETA: I can see it when logged out of LJ, too.

Popping in from /network

[jackandahat]

Yeah - considering I can see notes on someone's mental health (I know they've passed away, but still) I'd be pretty worried.

Do you mind if I link a few people to this post? I think it's important information and this is the first place I've seen it.

[rydra_wong]

Um, wow. Yeah, I see the note too.

[liviapenn]

I don't use Notes, but just to test to see if it's something about this comm, I added a note to the person whose lj name is linked in this post. Can you see what it is?

[lilacsigil]

I can see the one you linked, but not the one liviapenn linked, or any others.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bettina_/]

I just checked and I do not see a note there.