In the previous thread, you Liked my reply to this concern of yours: India Forums already provides two places where you have control over who sees your posts.
1. Post on your Wall. You can restrict viewing of your Profile to Buddies only.
2. Post in your own private forum. You can make it Request Join.
If you were scrolling through one public forum topic and you saw hundreds of hidden content posts ... so, you had to keep requesting passwords from dozens of members, and each of them asked you to PM them your proof of age ... and then you had to make time to go back and read their posts, that wouldn't be a pleasant user experience for you, would it?
So, instead of password-protecting individual posts when everyone is posting in each other's topics in the public forums, let's see what organized content within India Forums could be designated for individual members to control access. Other than profiles and private forums, I can think of two kinds of content.
3. Authors could control access to their own fan fiction books:
a) Anyone can read (G-rated)
b) All members of India Forums can read
c) Add the book to your Library to read it (i.e. advertise it on your profile)
d) Only Buddies can read the Author's books
e) Password-protected
f) Only Authors of the book can read it (i.e. an Author has to add another member as Author)
4. Whoever starts a topic could control access to it with auto-join, request join, or invitation only settings, similar to those of private forums. I wouldn't want to scroll through a forum page full of forbidden-to-access topics, but this might be a valuable feature when private forums get converted into public forums.
Whoever likes these ideas, please click Like. Whoever is trying to win the Expressionist badge but disapproves of everything I post, please be honest.
Edited by BrhannadaArmour - 10 months ago
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