And again with the defriending.

[conuly]

Somebody posted about it... why, I'm not sure. I'm also not sure if she was talking about me specifically or just random people when she said "inane". *le sigh* Here's the thing. I *know* I post a lot. I'm not going to edit my posts to add unrelated content. If I'm talking about comments in one post, I won't edit it to talk about politics. I don't do that. So instead, I post a lot.

Disclaimer. This actually isn't related very much to the earlier paragraph. Now I'm speaking generally, instead of specifically.

And, because I know this is a problem, I put a nice nifty disclaimer in my user info. It says, I believe, that I post a lot, and that you shouldn't friend me if this is a problem. So it's okay to defriend me because I post a lot, and it's okay to not friend me because I post a lot. Please don't defriend me and say "well, I wouldn't've friended you if I'd known you post a lot!". That's just silly. I give fair warning. And all my posts, almost, are public. You can visit my journal and see the insane number of posts here. No excuses if you don't know before you friend me that I post. A lot.

On the subject, if you actually think I post too much, and can think of a way to condense my posts, I'm willing to hear it. So long as it doesn't involve mixing unrelated stuff together.

Edit: I did a bad thing here myself. I started talking about a specific person, and then spoke generally. This is really a bad thing, because I don't make a disclaimer so you know when I'm miffed at one person and when I'm discussing a trend. I'll go fix.

Edit again: Sheesh, if I were setting out to comment-whore, I could scarcely have picked a better topic than this! I love me my comments, so this is all good.

Edit the third: The person I was speaking about in the first paragraph (but not the second) seems to have removed more than one person from her list. We all do list cleaning from time to time. I only posted because she mentioned that some people were removed for posting too much "even if she loves them" and that one of those people... well, she goes on. But I'm actually not upset, so stop trying to comfort me. Well, I was upset slightly, but now I suspect that I may not have been that one person, and anyway I was just rambling/chatting.

Comments

[mortaine.livejournal.com]

lj-cut with labels, so folks will know what you're going to babble about and can skip if they want to. It's about the only thing I can think of that will make someone seem less posty than they are.

[conuly]

I always lj-cut. She complained about the number of posts various people make, not the length.

[innerbrat]

That person mentions "padding their entry count"

I didn't even know until recently there was an entry count. They're one of those people you find on forums that complain about "pc whores" when no one else cares about post count, least of all the ones with high ones.

For what it's worth, I like short posts. I don't like people who post one giant post a day because I don't like reading long posts. I like to see what I'm getting. Right there. And if I'm not interested, I'll scroll down my friends page.

This is because i have the attention span of

[conuly]

*snickers*

Good one.

As for the entry count, there definitely is one. Go to your user info, scroll down, click "more".

[innerbrat]

I know it's there. I just don't care.

[mortaine.livejournal.com]

No, I mean, like lj-cut EVERYTHING. Anything that's more than 1 sentence long. Seriously-- I tried it for a while (for my own aesthetic reasons). After a while, people will start complaining that you never say anything "out loud."

Seriously, though. People will complain about anything, if you get enough of them in a room.

[frogmajick.livejournal.com]

As if there aren't way more important things to bitch about besides your posts volume! You give fair warning in your info...I knew what I was in for.

Pretty much the only thing I could suggest is more specific titles so we'd know the gist of the content...but even that doesn't help everybody. It depends on what style people use and all (yay for page summary!)

Post whatever, whenever. I like that you don't mix topics. I try not to, but I'm not always successful.

[ril-chan.livejournal.com]

I don't find your posting habits to be at all annoying. I just skim past the links that I'm not interested in, and read the rest. It's not HARD. :)

[jet87.livejournal.com]

Personally, I like the stuff you post. I find it really informative. A lot of your posts deal with news that I should pay attention to, but haven't because I rarely use CNN.com or Google News.

[phibby.livejournal.com]

Geez. Instead of unfriending, why not just go for friends filters? It's all that I even use nowadays. If she was so annoyed by your constant posting, she could've just made a filter of your posts and one for the rest of her friends. *shrug* Common sense.

I'm not turned off by the number of your posts, but that's because they're all pretty interesting. :D

[masterflare421.livejournal.com]

Well, while when you make lots of posts I just tend to skim them and go back to them later, I do like that you make lots of posts on informative topics, and you link to sources.

Honestly, someone on a forum I visit posted about where the "Under God" line should be used in the Pledge of Allegiance, and I thought, "I should go look back through Conuly's entries and find where it says that the pledge didn't originally have that line." And then I found out LJ was down and so couldn't look for it :(

But I do really like that you make so many posts that I can reference back to for useful information.

[conuly]

She suggested that after I posted a mock-whine on her entry.

I myself have never been able to get into the filters, though I reccommend them often.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

ditto here.

Although it IS a bit strange to see the same person three tiems in a row. I think 10 was the record for Most Conuly Posts on My F-List Page.

[sicpuppy.livejournal.com]

Eep, I make lots of posts, and usually long ones too. I never considered it as a problem before. I just asumed that if people skim them and see that they don't look to their taste, they just won't read them. I generally don't like to cut things, unless they're freakishly long or else they're pics. I like to treat my LJ like I treated my real life journal all those years. I like to see the text when I open it rather than a load of little links to bits and bobs. No-one forces anyone else to read entries. I know I don't bother reading something if it looks dull, but I wouldn't dream of telling that person to change their LJ style just for me!

[conuly]

*blush*

[conuly]

This person didn't either. It's perfectly reasonable to explain why you defriended somebody. However, what upset me slightly is that she called *somebody* inane, and I'm not sure who. Was it me? Or somebody else who also posts a lot?

[conuly]

Well, I get a lot of my sources from google, so you can check there :)

The fact that the Pledge wasn't originally written with "under god" in it is common knowledge, I'm stunned that there's still people who don't know the truth.

[conuly]

Well, there's something to be said for one-line news links.

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

:D

I still like, you silly, or else I'd've gone and unfriended you.

...and even then, OOO pretty colors! @_@

[furiosity.livejournal.com]

I personally prefer to make one, maximum two posts a day, with some bits above cuts, other bits under. I also post fic, but that's always public and always separate. I have a text file in which I add stuff I want to say and when there's enough, I post it.

I do intensely dislike it when people post after every meal and all their posts talk about is what they'd just eaten. I look at the journals of people before I friend them to make sure they're not the type to post every meme they find the minute they find it.

That said, I love that you post a lot. You're one of the most interesting people on my f-list when it comes to learning stuff about... well, everything really. *grins* I don't care that you make several posts a day because they're actually interesting posts. I don't know why anyone would have a beef with having interesting linkage/ramblings on their f-list.

[conuly]

Well, let's be clear. She called somebody's posts inane, and definitely defriended me. However, she also said that she might refriend me with a filter, so I don't know whose posts she was objecting to.

I really don't want to be upset at what wasn't said here, so it's important to set facts straight.

And thanks. *blushes s'more*

[thornleaf.livejournal.com]

In my humble opinion, one should never feel obliged to apologize for one's posts (or to alter the frequency or length of them) just to appease someone else. Content... maybe. But not frequency or length.

It's my journal, and I'll post if I want to... that sort of thing.

: )

[griffen.livejournal.com]

Yep. You can't please all the people all the time - or even some of the people most of the time. Some people are just determined to find something they don't like and make a stink about it.

[readerravenclaw.livejournal.com]

Once we're on the subject of your posting style....

The one improvement that I, for one, would appreciate, would be to actually tell us - in at least one or two words - what the articles that you so often link to are about. Even the name of the article (or post) would be good, for starters. If someone on my friends list would post completely unexplained link every once in a while, I wouldn't hesitate to click on it, but you post unexplained links very, very frequently. There's nothing wrong with that, it's just that I know I'm not going to be interested in every one, especially since I have significantly different views than you do on several subjects, and since you post so many links, I end up just ignoring all of them. If you posted article titles, or a one sentence intro, or just a mention of what the articles are about, then I'd click on the links that interested me as opposed to mostly just ignoring them. :) (I can't speak for anyone else, but it's very possible that others feel the same way, so mentioning what you're linking to might generate more comments for you as well.)

[conuly]

You're right, of course :)

I usually just get lazy. I'm so big with the linkies, after a while it's up to "well, how do I describe this one?" and I just... slack off. *sighs* BAD CONNIE! *smites self*

I will try to do better.