Numbered accounts and secret RSS

It would be interesting if DW were like a true RSS service and you could subscribe to others nonpublicly. (True nonpublicity: your subscriber list doesn't show up in the profile, people who you subscribe to are not notified, your /read page is not publicly visible, not visible in the directory) In other words, they wouldn't know that you subscribed to them, and no one else would know. In some ways the subscription model is helpful in aiding discovery. Yet in other ways, why is it anyone's business who I subscribe to? For the publicizing of the access list, there is a substantial reason (although some do not agree) as to why it should be publicized. Not so for the subscriber list.

Hmm... maybe it could work as having a sub-journal that could be nonpublic (similar to the numbered account suggestion on the wiki), and one aspect of the nonpublicness is that the subscribe list is entirely nonpublic.

The numbered account suggestion is IMHO pretty interesting, and I can't see any reason why it shouldn't be implemented, except doesn't it violate one of the reasons for the visibility of the access list? In other words, if I grant a numbered account access, it probably shouldn't show up on my profile. However, that would seem to violate the principle that the access list must be visible so that other people on my access list can see who else might be able to see locked posts. I suppose one way to deal with it must be to specify that a numbered account cannot be granted access (and if the only way a numbered account could exist was as a subaccount of a paid account, that could work, because people who want to grant the person who owns the main account access would grant the main account access.) However this is now getting really confusing.

rambling today

Am allllmost done with the translation of the artbook Saiunkoku story. (As usual, will be posted at the blog).

Some notes on random fictive tropes:

I loved the part in Book of the New Sun where there was the storytelling contest, and Severian puzzled over which stories were the best and by which criteria they should be judged and what each story really meant, and what the motivation of each teller was in telling it.

The reset ending in part 6 of a certain manga: it somehow interests me to essentially end as an AU and negate everything to create a "better world"?

Can the "and it was all a dream and they woke up" ending work well? For some reason I want to see someone pull it off.