Facebook is really not built to facilitate intelligent conversation, is it?

[randomness]

There's a conversation going on in a Facebook group I'm in that may someday become my personal Exhibit A for why Facebook is a terrible place to have any kind of substantive, meaningful conversation.

I'm not linking to it now because I don't need an Exhibit A at the moment. Moreover, pointing large numbers of people at the conversation who have no connection to the group will probably not be helpful.

Comments

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I find I can freeze comments individually on a personal LJ. I can also retroactively disable comments, or screen them, and I can change the security on an entire post. Each of these options is available on the "edit post" page.

I don't administer a community LJ, so I can't speak to how those work.

[ron_newman]

As a community moderator, I do not have the ability to do any of these things, except to retroactively screen comments that have already been posted.

ETA: I can also freeze already-posted comments (thus preventing new direct replies to them), but I can't prevent new top-level comments from being added.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I wonder why community LJs work differently from personal ones.

Maybe it has to do with the fact that multiple accounts can moderate communities?