I have been hearing that people who have disabled pingbacks have still been getting them, which is worrisome.
But in theory, how it's supposed to ideally work:
Anna and Bit both have pingbacks turned on. Anna makes a pretty awesome public post. Bit sees the post, says "ooh! Everyone who reads me must go read Anna's post!" and makes a post linking to Anna. pingback_bot says, "Ooh! A link! I wonder if it's my turn to go play?" *checks post security, public, check* *checks pingback settings, both on, check* pingback_bot goes to Anna's post and says, "Psst, Bit linked to you here: [link] [quote of at least part of post for context] ISN'T THIS AWESOME!?!?!" Anna gets the comment notification, sees the screened comment, and decides whether or not to wander over to Bit's post, or to unscreen the pingback.
Facebook/Twitter post the first little bit of your entry/comment and then link to it.
It does not matter if the entry is friends-locked or yours, at this time LJ still offers the ability to check that checkbox and easily post your comment to Twitter/FB. Anyone there who's not on the friendslist of whoever's journal this is taking place in, or not in the filter, will only see the little snippet of comment, the journal name, and then the LOL PRIVACY goat.
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But in theory, how it's supposed to ideally work:
Anna and Bit both have pingbacks turned on.
Anna makes a pretty awesome public post.
Bit sees the post, says "ooh! Everyone who reads me must go read Anna's post!" and makes a post linking to Anna.
Anna gets the comment notification, sees the screened comment, and decides whether or not to wander over to Bit's post, or to unscreen the pingback.
Facebook/Twitter post the first little bit of your entry/comment and then link to it.
It does not matter if the entry is friends-locked or yours, at this time LJ still offers the ability to check that checkbox and easily post your comment to Twitter/FB. Anyone there who's not on the friendslist of whoever's journal this is taking place in, or not in the filter, will only see the little snippet of comment, the journal name, and then the LOL PRIVACY goat.