One more, and then I'm done for the day.

[featherynscale]

I have typically followed the thought that if you don't want to read something in my journal, you'll just scroll past it and ignore it. But lately, it seems like it would be more polite to set up some filters, especially as I think that I might start posting some things here that I traditionally have not. So, do me a favor, would you, and make a note of what you would like to read, and what you would prefer not to. If you choose yes on any of the following, I will add you. If you choose no, I will not add you, and will, in fact, remove you if you're currently on that filter. If you click that you don't care, I will add you if I want to, or not, if I don't. Thanks for your time, I'm trying to make my little corner of livejournal a better place.

[Poll #840854]

Comments

[beccak1961.livejournal.com]

I didn't see a filter but I'd like to be included in day to day stuff too.. I find your teaching and life interesting, if you don't mind.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Nah... you're all stuck with day-to-day stuff :)
Mostly because I can't work out how to differentiate that from anything else to filter it out. This stuff, I can at least clearly see what should and should not go on the filter.

[teross50.livejournal.com]

Clowns on the left, fools on the right, Stuck in the middle with you is a good thing!!

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

I have chosen to keep my life simple. Anything and everything that I feel like typing about, gets put on for anyone to see or not. Unless it is too personal or gives to much information where I don't really want it out in the public then it's friends only. There are very very rare times when I post something that is locked but only to my mother-in-law and only because I don't want her to know or comment.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Sure, and I have some filters already that are sort of level-of-intimacy filters (they're mostly for reading... I love everyone, but when I have been offline for a few days, I will often only read the journals of people I know in three-dimensional life, and suchlike). This is more of a realization of how much I post, and how often it's crap :)

[celticwhistlin.livejournal.com]

I don't post filter nor do I friends-page filter. I just scroll by or stop and read. I'm too fly-by night when it comes to such things...

I also tend to think of most of my posts as crap. Most of the time they are a means of asking advice but sometimes just to vent. I tend not to post about mundane things too much as I just don't really ever have the time anymore.

I didn't realize until lately, how much time I really devote to work than I did in years past. I haven't really figured out why yet either.

[tjstein.livejournal.com]

I completely agree with the first statement. I'll leave it up to you what filters you want to put me in...if something doesn't interest me, I'll just scroll on by.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

That's fair, too. :)

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

I try not to filter much because it takes less effort to scan and mousewheel past something chaotic than it does for me to figure out what aspects of you I like and which I don't.

Go ahead and put me on all filters... if I have had my chaos quotient for the day I promise to keep scrolling by with nary a bitch, moan, or turkey.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Done and done. And from this point on, I expect no turkey from you, young man! :-P

[diermuid.livejournal.com]

Fine. Pistonrings. 8-P

[rfunk.livejournal.com]

I tend to be more of the view that, for each post, the writer is the best judge of what she wants to share with whom, while the reader is the best judge of whether he is interested in that particular post. Thus I see post filters to be better oriented toward privacy than toward reader-interest.

Come to think of it, isn't a reader-interest filter better implemented as a separate account?

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

Come to think of it, isn't a reader-interest filter better implemented as a separate account?

To a certain extent, I think so, yes. I have a separate journal for thejobfairy, since I thought there wouldn't be a lot of overlap between people who wanted to read that and people who generally want to read my stuff. And that may be a good solution for the fiction bits, since they haven't appeared here before, but the other things, I figure most people who read me will want to read that stuff, because that's what they're reading now. If 3/4 of the list wants to read something, I'd rather filter it to them than have them have to add another journal.

[cynthiaweb.livejournal.com]

Uh, I want to make sure I get to see the funny stuff. I really need a laugh. Really. In fact I think you should write a funny book, maybe like Lon Duquette's stuff. But then I'd have to pay to read it, so nevermind.

[featherynscale.livejournal.com]

I like Lon Duquette. (I am apostate, and that's okay!) I actually just finished reading The Chicken Qabalah, and I wept at the bit about how to pronounce the Tetragrammaton. Wildly funny. I'm not sure I'm that clever, but I will be happy to include you on anything funny I happen to do :)

[matchgirl42.livejournal.com]

Completely unrelated, but I must say, your new icons are da shit, my dear.

That is all. *grin*