Swinging by, so I'm going to answer a few of the first set of questions. Might come back later to answer from the other sets.
How do you use tags? No, this one's not you personally. I really don't get how to use them or what they're for. One answer -- tags work in much the same way as memories, though they offer more immediacy. Say for example you might have a memory category that's titled icons. So first you click to get to your memories. Then you click that category, icons. At that point you see a list of links, entries you've classified under that category. To get to each entry, you then click on one of the links you see.
Tags give you those same entries (once you have gone through and manually tagged them with a shared tag), but in the format of your journal page, cut-tags in place.
I usually add fic to both -- add to memories, and tag with some designator that will let me find the fic or multi-part fic by that category. But other types of RL-themed things, or minor fandom issues/posts, or entries that are updates about what I'm writing now -- those seem less formal to me, and so I tag only. One disadvantage -- tags only bring up the last 100 entries with that category.
Why do you have yourself friended? So I can use my own entries on my reading-list as a marker. That way I can tell where I left off (I often end up posting after I've caught up on my flist) or round-about where I stopped reading (if, say, I know it was about five or six entries after my last post). And hey, for now when LJ isn't delivering all comments, it can be helpful to see your lonely entry that you thought no one replied to on your friends/reading list, and realize that it has ten responses by now. :)
Do you feel it’s impolite to have long conversations with someone on someone else’s journal? Depends on the entry. In a fic post, I wouldn't do that, because it seems so OT to the point of the post. But in a post about other issues or a RL post, I probably would if I get the sense that the original poster welcomes such a thing. It's usually fairly clear whether she or he does or not.
Do you get annoyed when someone makes a comment just to correct a grammatical error, or makes a comment that’s only one word, or seems pointless to you? Well, if someone posts one correction but that error has a big effect (like, hey, you forgot to put an LJ cut for your 2,000 word entry) then it's fine, and I'm grateful for the comment. When someone replies to a fic post with only a correction and no other comment, I find that annoying, and I'd probably wonder what's up that spurred them to choose to make that comment and say nothing else. But if there's a one or two word comment that's positive to any type of entry, that's totally fine with me.
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How do you use tags? No, this one's not you personally. I really don't get how to use them or what they're for.
One answer -- tags work in much the same way as memories, though they offer more immediacy. Say for example you might have a memory category that's titled icons. So first you click to get to your memories. Then you click that category, icons. At that point you see a list of links, entries you've classified under that category. To get to each entry, you then click on one of the links you see.
Tags give you those same entries (once you have gone through and manually tagged them with a shared tag), but in the format of your journal page, cut-tags in place.
I usually add fic to both -- add to memories, and tag with some designator that will let me find the fic or multi-part fic by that category. But other types of RL-themed things, or minor fandom issues/posts, or entries that are updates about what I'm writing now -- those seem less formal to me, and so I tag only. One disadvantage -- tags only bring up the last 100 entries with that category.
Why do you have yourself friended?
So I can use my own entries on my reading-list as a marker. That way I can tell where I left off (I often end up posting after I've caught up on my flist) or round-about where I stopped reading (if, say, I know it was about five or six entries after my last post). And hey, for now when LJ isn't delivering all comments, it can be helpful to see your lonely entry that you thought no one replied to on your friends/reading list, and realize that it has ten responses by now. :)
Do you feel it’s impolite to have long conversations with someone on someone else’s journal?
Depends on the entry. In a fic post, I wouldn't do that, because it seems so OT to the point of the post. But in a post about other issues or a RL post, I probably would if I get the sense that the original poster welcomes such a thing. It's usually fairly clear whether she or he does or not.
Do you get annoyed when someone makes a comment just to correct a grammatical error, or makes a comment that’s only one word, or seems pointless to you?
Well, if someone posts one correction but that error has a big effect (like, hey, you forgot to put an LJ cut for your 2,000 word entry) then it's fine, and I'm grateful for the comment. When someone replies to a fic post with only a correction and no other comment, I find that annoying, and I'd probably wonder what's up that spurred them to choose to make that comment and say nothing else. But if there's a one or two word comment that's positive to any type of entry, that's totally fine with me.