A deluge of livejournal
May. 11th, 2006 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
You probably noticed I hit a deluge of catching up on LJing last night. I notice the posts seem to be in two sorts:
* Medleys of things I did, which attracted no comments.
* Thoughts on topics, which attracted many comments and in some cases webpages (:) thanks, Owen).
Is it that a medley makes it hard to read, or to pick one thing to reply to, or just that topics often have something that needs a reply to, but things I did don't?
* Medleys of things I did, which attracted no comments.
* Thoughts on topics, which attracted many comments and in some cases webpages (:) thanks, Owen).
Is it that a medley makes it hard to read, or to pick one thing to reply to, or just that topics often have something that needs a reply to, but things I did don't?
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Date: 2006-05-11 10:59 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-11 11:11 am (UTC)yeah. it was great. I was working late in the lab and it kept me entertained.
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Date: 2006-05-11 11:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-11 01:12 pm (UTC)I think that on the whole `what I did posts' will attract less comment because if you weren't there,* there is often not much that can be said whereas thoughts about stuff provoke discussion.
*Unless it's the sort of thing which results in needing sympathy.
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Date: 2006-05-12 11:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-11 06:39 pm (UTC)Looking back through your posts (this was really a trick to make us read them, wasn't it ;) ), the 'what I've been doing' ones feel more like notes to yourself, whereas the thinky posts are more, well, thought-through.
Case in point for the former would be this, where it takes a decent amount of interpretation (and knowledge of what's happening in your life) just to work out what's going on; it's therefore something I'll likely skim when I'm reading lj:
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Date: 2006-05-11 11:27 pm (UTC)Oh dear. I sometimes have that effect, but not here. Actually it seems like posts I think out a *lot* I've said everything and no-one has anything to add. Posts I've written as they occur to me are disjointed to read. Posts I've thought a bit about (like feetneet, hex, etc) tend to be provactive, and one-liners I've tossed off either spawn rambling multipages discussions or die.
Case in point for the former would be this, where it takes a decent amount of interpretation (and knowledge of what's happening in your life) just to work out what's going on;
LOL. Good point.
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Date: 2006-05-11 07:08 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-11 11:28 pm (UTC)Is it preferable to have a list of everything, or one thing that happened that I think about for several paragraphs?
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