LJ Idol - Week 8 - LJ Rants

[emosnail]

   In college I minored in Communications (And History, And Political Science). Now Comm is a notoriously useless major, but I think thats primarily because every sorority girl and metrosexual male took the mass media comm classes thinking they were gonna make it big time on MTV. I took classes like "Organizational Communications" "Conflict

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[brightflashes]

Very interesting. I love the point you make with the poll. I've been trying to figure out how to do that in my writing (I love audience participation) and you've pulled it off wonderfully. Great job! :)

[emosnail]

I was actually a bit suprised by the results, I thought they'd be more balanced, but as you can see at the present moment exactly 2/3rds have selected "to express myself."

Yeah the fun thing about polls is people are more likely to fill out a poll than leave a comment so it gives you a more accurate idea of how many people are reading your entry. Looking at people that have filled out the poll there's some people who never comment and I'd started assuming they weren't reading anymore.

Thanks for the compliments (=

[stormmm]

If I was a better writer I'd probably blog for the attention. So, I'm pretty okay with my level of entertainment and have resolved to express myself. Also, so nice to see flowers that weren't roses.

[emo_snal]

I express myself pretty much by sending boxsofrain a text whenever I have something to express hahaha. That and the occasional filtered entry, since I don't really like expressing my actual feelings for just anyone out there to happen across.

[pavel_lishin]

Unrelated: any thoughts on this?

http://imagenebula.com/?task=view&id=2149

I, for one, would probably just have looked up how to smoke the bees into submission and moved the barbeque off my porch. I mean, come on! Free honey!

Lol!

[emo_snal]

Hahaha

(1) It looks like a blog post... thats entirely an image? why is that?

(2) I couldn't make out the active ingrediants in his bug bomb, but I would say he's a raging idiot for using any kind of pesticide on something he was about to use for food preparation. I'm not a chemical expert, but many of those pesticides will persist despite even a concerted boiling water / soap wash (and I doubt he did that to his whole BBQ). One of the interesting presentations here this weekend was on just how incredibly persistant pesticide residues can be. So yeah. That guy is a total idiot for using pesticides on a food preparation device. I wish his post was somewhere I could leave a comment so I could tell him what an idiot he is.

(3) At the bottem he says he "thinks the queen flew away." I'm just wondering why he says that. He doesn't really provide any reason for that hypothesis and that hypothesis is almost assuredly wrong. Why would the queen survive when the rest of the bees didn't?

Re: Lol!

[pavel_lishin]

1. Yeah, I don't know what's up with that. I guess someone wanted to save it for posterity in one simple file.

2. That's a pretty good point, I didn't think about that. I hope he scrubbed hard.

3. I have no idea what the fuck he was talking about there.

[alycewilson]

I agree with your theory on ranting, and I enjoyed this analysis. But then again, I was a Communications major, too.

[superhappytime]

I think I write for the attention whore fact, mostly...or to practice, or just because I like to write and share ideas, and people in real life rarely have time to pay attention...people here do...sometimes 'cause they're interested and sometimes 'cause they think it means you will in turn read and pay attention to them...these people are easy to spot...the ones who say "comment or I'm going to drop you" frequently.

[emo_snal]

And hey, it worked, I commented on your entry and here you are! ;D jk

Like I mention above, I write to be read. I'm not sure what purpose being read serves me though. I don't "comment whore" per se but comments are often about the only evidence you have of people reading your lj. Unless you post a poll (43 people voted? Thats a whopping 11% of my friends-of list! d= )

And to express myself, also like I said in comment somewhere else, I just text boxsofrain every time I have something to express haha. She's a darling for putting up with me.

[superhappytime]

nah---screw those people who only vote in polls...they are major league a-holes.

I would lie and say I read all the entries when I go through Idol, but I don't, and more or less implied that in the green room yesterday....what I typically do on the weekend is click on the names of the people who are on my friend list...then, if I have more time, I get the ones who aren't on my friend list but still comment from time to time...I am putting an all out boycott on voting for anyone who I suspect doesn't read my entries...it's one thing to not like them, but it's BS to not even give them a chance....

for voting, at this point, when there are still plenty of people, unless their entry sucks, I vote for everyone who has friended me...it's the A for effort policy until the crowd thins a bit...(unless, like I said, they totally show no effort and just turn in hot garbage)

[emo_snal]

I try to always read all the entries in my bracket*, and usually just the ones by people I know I've liked before in other brackets. Also I have a "LJ Idol Contestants" filter on my friends page that I look at. So pretty much before the poll goes up I just look at whats on my filter (which includes people on all brackets), and once the poll goes up I go down the links in my bracket. Also I always make sure to read the last place vote getters in every bracket to make sure no one I like is getting voted out. This is, after all, the ONLY vote that matters.

I've noticed that people by and large loooove sappy posts and those of us who go for humour are really underappreciated, so gotta stick up for team ceativity