A deluge of livejournal

[jack]

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?

Comments

[oedipamaas49.livejournal.com]

Interesting. You don't get off too badly; compare to my own lj which has a very strong inverse correlation between number of comments and amount of thought that went into the post.

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:

* Happy Starwars Day
* The problem with this meme is I end up thinking about it all day until it goes off. Setting an alarm to do it at a random time would make it worse, as I'd always be on tenterhooks. But I am spodding things I wouldn't otherwise so I'll probably keep doing it.
* Yay, M&S wedding next week!

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

compare to my own lj which has a very strong inverse correlation between number of comments and amount of thought that went into the post.

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.