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Questions Post #5
It's that time again...TOOL TI--. . .yeah. That.
From my sister-in-law to you:
Lj
How often do you change your bio?
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.
How do you get to your journal—is it in your favorites? Is the link there your “recent entries” page, your user page, or your “my lj” page, or what?
Why do you have yourself friended?
Do you ever have trouble finding the button to click to add someone’s post to your memories?
How often do you check your flist to see if someone’s added you?
Do you feel it’s impolite to have long conversations with someone on someone else’s journal?
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?
How do you spell the gerund form of rec and beta?
General fandom
What did they use to put the tattoo on David Boreanaz’s back? Do you think they worried about getting it in the same place every time? And who gets the job of applying it, anyway?
Did David Boreanaz ever have a back double?
How tall is Nicholas Brendon? Okay now, how tall is he for real?
Am I the only slathering B/A fangirl who doesn’t think much of the episode IWRY?
Are there any fics out there about Anne (formerly Lily, formerly Chantarelle)?
Did anyone besides me really love Kate Lockley?
What DVD commentary do you like the best?
What’s J. Augest Richards doing these days? Alexis Denisof?
Joss Whedon
Why do some people hate Joss Whedon?
Whatever happened to the Ripper spin off?
Is there even the remote possibility of a Faith spin-off?
Is there even the remote possibility of the cartoon?
Did Serenity make enough money, or not?
I want someone explain comic books to me. I was really into X-men comics in preteen years, but one of the reasons I kind of dropped it was because I got confused (also, I got too tall to be comfortable sexing up with Wolverine and realized I would never have boobs like Rogue's. When you're 11, you still want boobs like Rogue's, even though you figure out by 12 NO ONE has boobs like Rogue's. Or even wants boobs like Rogue's, because ugh, back pain). There seemed to be so many different series all going on at once; I couldn't keep them straight. I didn't get the difference between Uncanny, Astonishing, and Amazing. Isn't there like . . . a diagram for these things?
From my sister-in-law to you:
Lj
How often do you change your bio?
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.
How do you get to your journal—is it in your favorites? Is the link there your “recent entries” page, your user page, or your “my lj” page, or what?
Why do you have yourself friended?
Do you ever have trouble finding the button to click to add someone’s post to your memories?
How often do you check your flist to see if someone’s added you?
Do you feel it’s impolite to have long conversations with someone on someone else’s journal?
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?
How do you spell the gerund form of rec and beta?
General fandom
What did they use to put the tattoo on David Boreanaz’s back? Do you think they worried about getting it in the same place every time? And who gets the job of applying it, anyway?
Did David Boreanaz ever have a back double?
How tall is Nicholas Brendon? Okay now, how tall is he for real?
Am I the only slathering B/A fangirl who doesn’t think much of the episode IWRY?
Are there any fics out there about Anne (formerly Lily, formerly Chantarelle)?
Did anyone besides me really love Kate Lockley?
What DVD commentary do you like the best?
What’s J. Augest Richards doing these days? Alexis Denisof?
Joss Whedon
Why do some people hate Joss Whedon?
Whatever happened to the Ripper spin off?
Is there even the remote possibility of a Faith spin-off?
Is there even the remote possibility of the cartoon?
Did Serenity make enough money, or not?
I want someone explain comic books to me. I was really into X-men comics in preteen years, but one of the reasons I kind of dropped it was because I got confused (also, I got too tall to be comfortable sexing up with Wolverine and realized I would never have boobs like Rogue's. When you're 11, you still want boobs like Rogue's, even though you figure out by 12 NO ONE has boobs like Rogue's. Or even wants boobs like Rogue's, because ugh, back pain). There seemed to be so many different series all going on at once; I couldn't keep them straight. I didn't get the difference between Uncanny, Astonishing, and Amazing. Isn't there like . . . a diagram for these things?
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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.
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So I can use my own entries on my reading-list as a marker.
That's what I thought. I get so lost on my flist, and I wondered whether friending yourself helped at all. Or whether it was just, you know, a little personal titillation to see yourself on your flist and know that you're your own friend who loves you very very much.
It's usually fairly clear whether she or he does or not.
Hadn't thought about it that way. I think I have phobias about being rude. But I myself love it when other people get in discussions on my journal. Then again I have voyeuristic kinks so it's hardly surprising.
I'd probably wonder what's up that spurred them to choose to make that comment and say nothing else.
It's because they loved your story so much they couldn't stand to see a typo blemish it. And because they think you're such a genius, like Spock whoa mind meld, they also think that you percieve this immediately and that no other comment is required. Because we're good enough; we're smart enough, and doggoneit, people like our fanfic.