Saturday Meta BBQs return!

[emo_snal]

   I haven't really talked much meta this LJ season, as I had last year. There's not really much to say in the beginning when everyone's just getting oriented and haven't even started to wonder the eternal questions yet. But it looks like in just the last week or two, possibly due to the gatekeeper round, questions such as "what is this" and "why

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[emo_snal]

Yeah someone else commented on the triggers in their list of things that turn them off about entries. I tend to agree but as a not-very-sensitive person I figured I ought to be sensitive to the fact that maybe some people ARE really easily freaked out about things. But I remember it reached epidemic proportions last year in terms of the number of entries with warning triggers and it was rather out of hand.

But on a similar note I think it's also silly when they put NSFW warnings on entries that are just text. NSFW is usually reserved for something that will open up a picture which might raise eyebrows when seen from across the room at work ... unless someone is reading over your shoulder I don't see how just text can be NSFW!

And yeah there's seriously so many of these entries about abusive exes (in the body of this entry I just referred to them being about "exes" so as not to come off as making fun of people with abuse in their past, but seriously, they're all about specifically abusive exes) I really wonder if these people are recycling or just have a number of abusive exes each.

WHAT you haven't been voting for me?? :D :D

[flameprincess]

I've had you on my list but RL has been clobbering me upside the head lately... I'm a baaaaddd lj idol spectator :)

I agree with the NSFW warnings. I always assume it's picture based and get confused when it isn't.

As far as being sensitive to the fact that some people are easily freaked out about things, I've tried but the internet is a big place and not everything comes with handy dandy warning labels. Doesn't responsibility of walking away come into play on their end? I don't know, I may just be intolerant or have thicker skin.

Abusive exes, it's like a primary staple of idol. Well abuse at the very least is. I've considered doing a season and writing only cheery stories. I figure I might last a round doing that. I think we see it because people respond to those sorts of stories. Certain people I'm convinced are recycling and so they are flat out never included on my list of people to vote for, in any season.

[comedychick]

Re: NSFW warnings, I've heard some people work at places where their Internet is filtered and/or pick up on specific words that could be considered inappropriate for the workplace.

[emo_snal]

Well then they probably shouldn't be on LJ! :D

Seriously though. I'll make a quick entry at lunch at my current place or maybre respond to a comment real quick like if it's slow and the boss isn't looking, but if I worked somewhere where I knew they were monitoring our internet usage (such as some law firms I've worked at) I wouldn't go near livejourbal. Live what?

[comedychick]

LOL, true. Monitoring Internet things? They're obviously going to pick up on LJ usernames (including the one belonging to said employee) and then who knows what might happen next... It makes me glad I don't, uh, work at all? haha

[emo_snal]

Lol!!

The computer monitoring operations of some companies really freak me out. I worked for this one law firm that not only had blocked all the regular email services (like Yahoo! I couldn't check my yahoo mail even on my lunch break!), but had even accidentally blocked their own payroll service! Lol!

[comedychick]

LOL clever!