Most Unique!

[eetmewithtoast]

This has been a great week for LJ. Seriously.

If you don't believe me, just check these stats:

good = 505 (as collected by michaelnolan)

bad = 2267 (as collected by rollick)

I don't know the stats for how many LJ-users are deemed to be in need of a shot of Vitamin B12 (baxil) or a stiff drink (postvixen).

For Good LJ, I nominated owlrigh, galeogirl, catling, beetiger, and eetmewithtoast. I gave compelling reasons

Comments

[eetmewithtoast]

I have noticed that the number of news posts have been going down: I just wasn't sure if that was a busy week or two, or a conscious choice.

Anyway, thanks.

The bad news is, I can't start on your wings for quite awhile yet . . . perhaps not 'til next fall. :(

It would be FUN to make wings and tails and such, it would be FUN to finish my other craft projects. But if I don't actually WORK on my animation portfolio, my imagination will complain I'm not using it properly, and leave me again.

If summer's over and I haven't mentioned starting them again, please bug me.

[dredpiratebunny]

...well, i hate capitals, and apostrophes and all that other malarky...being that i am the finger pecker variety of typist i dont wanna slow down to look for em...but point noted...
and whatever...im too run on...too state of consciousness
*shrug*
sorry (:3

[eetmewithtoast]

It's your thing, and it doesn't piss me off. It just makes your journal a little less friendly on the eyes than others.

Your grammar is fine, it's the lack of capitals that make for an unbroken stream of consciousness. That's an effect you're going for. Don't take it personally, I'm just continuing the honorable old tradition of bitching about everything and anything on the internet.

(Cue Net Bastard Rant #438 from postvixen in 3 . . . 2 . . 1 . . . )

I'm almost never snarky at my Friends List, except when I am. :)

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[queenofstripes]

Wow, you really make a lot of assumptions about your friends, don't you?

[bunnygoth]

I gotta disagree. I HATE this whole best/worst, ranking LJs thing. Of course, this might have something to do with the fact that I detest snarkiness and the competition of expression. Same reason I quit doing poetry slams.

I like to think of my lj as a place for personal expression, where I can escape all the bullshit ranking and criticism that goes on in the world around me. Picking lj's as interesting or unique or whatever is fine; calling them "best", "worst", etc. seems to me like an abuse of people's expressive spirit. If no one went around picking best and worst, no one would feel bad about being on or omitted from those lists. I didn't nominate anyone, no matter how interesting I find their journals.

I'll be much happier when all this shit is over and people can just go back to enjoying their 'blogging.

[darkmattr]

I think Rollick got more was not because of the nature of humanity, but because people are basically cowards, and they had the cloak of anonyminity to hide behind.

My opinion of course.

[eetmewithtoast]

Discount the anonymous posts, and I wouldn't be surprised if there were still more than michaelnolan got.

I agree that it's the nature of humanity, but I disagree on the aspect. People have an easier time tearing each other apart than building each other up. That goes doubly true for the 'net, where you don't have to put on your nice-nice face.

It's such a relief to leave my nice-nice face off. I don't think of myself as the worst Troll here, but it feels really good to let loose on appropriate subjects. I think I have a narrower view of "appropriate subjects", luckily.

I can't believe how many people on that doom thread were screaming hysterical rants against Furries and people who like Anime and Fanfic, much less Fundamental Christians and Conservatives. I don't see much difference between hating a Furry (sight unseen) and hating a Buddhist, Native American, or low-income person. It's all lines in the sand: I pick up individual pig-headed grains and focus on them. Being pig-headed myself, it's pretty easy. ;)

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[darkmattr]

The whole web is based on a false assumption of anonyminity.

I've had people threaten me with bodily harm, and in person...

Well they slunk away..

Its easy to hate on the net... Way to easy..

[eetmewithtoast]

postvixen has dedicated her on-LJ life to thinking about that issue. You should read her, she's a smarty.

[ezrarashkae]

I remember when it was YOU who told me, when I first got my LJ, that my LJ belonged to ME. I could write in it about whatever I wanted, however I wanted. Now you're sitting there critiquing? Dude, come on. Really. Let these educated people white however they want, bad grammer, smelling and ill use of caps as well as really really really long run on sentances which half of my LJ is made of.

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[queenofstripes]

Thank you! To borrow a phrase, "THIS NOT BURGER KING! YOU NO HAVE IT YOUR WAY!" :)

[eetmewithtoast]

Chill pills all around.

This IS my journal, I CAN have it my way.

You CAN ignore me. You CAN bitch at me for picking on less grammatically-oreinted people. I CAN ignore you right back.

See, that's how this "Freedom of Expression" thing works. If you want to think of me as hypocritical, or a Net Bastard, or Kelp, or whatever the hell you want- go ahead. Write about it in your LJ: spell it atrociously and with horrible grammar.

It is YOUR LJ, and YOU have a right to do that.

But I still maintain my right to bitch about whatever I please.

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[queenofstripes]

And yet, you seem to be curiously demanding that you be insulated from the consequences of your tactlessness, that's what bewilders me. And yet you still haven't gotten the point. It's not the complaining, it's the utter self-centered lack of interest in the other person's point of view. It's totally disregarding people when they explain that you've jumped to conclusions about them. It's expecting, somehow, that you're always going to be indulged when you speak uninformed, tactless opinions loudly.

Bye, PK. Think me oversensitive, think of me as some kind of emotion police. Just don't think of me as somebody who still finds your immaturity disguised as whimsy charming. Are you pleased that your self-fulfilling prophecy has come true and I've finally lost my interest in you?