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indigojoThe other day when I decided to join Dreamwidth, I was directed to one of the code-sharing communities (![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png)
dw_codesharing) where people post invites they have received but presumably don't have friends to distribute them to. I went through one entry after the other and pasted every code I could find into the space. Not one of them worked! Even though the entries all said to leave a comment, clearly people had helped themselves without bothering to leave a thank-you (or even a "taken" message) to save anyone else the trouble of pasting a code that no longer works.
I then left a comment forcampylobacter telling her to mail me one of her open invites through the contact page on my main blog. (Well, I presume it's a she, as her userpic has a woman on it ...) This she did. By that time I'd found an open invite on LiveJournal's DW invite board, and promptly emailed CB to say I no longer needed hers and thanks for sending it. Anyway, I don't know whether the moral is not to leave invite codes on an open website, or else they'll be taken up by who knows who, or not to bother going through lists of open invites as they'll probably be taken. Or both.
dw_codesharing) where people post invites they have received but presumably don't have friends to distribute them to. I went through one entry after the other and pasted every code I could find into the space. Not one of them worked! Even though the entries all said to leave a comment, clearly people had helped themselves without bothering to leave a thank-you (or even a "taken" message) to save anyone else the trouble of pasting a code that no longer works.I then left a comment for
campylobacter telling her to mail me one of her open invites through the contact page on my main blog. (Well, I presume it's a she, as her userpic has a woman on it ...) This she did. By that time I'd found an open invite on LiveJournal's DW invite board, and promptly emailed CB to say I no longer needed hers and thanks for sending it. Anyway, I don't know whether the moral is not to leave invite codes on an open website, or else they'll be taken up by who knows who, or not to bother going through lists of open invites as they'll probably be taken. Or both.
