Well, if there were certain low-bandwidth journals people expected to be on my flist, and they're not there, this could be why :)
I'll freely admit that one of the things I do before adding a new flist entry is scroll back ten or twenty entries in that journal and check the date. If the tenth-last entry is from 2005 or so, I'm probably not going to miss much by leaving that journal off the list.
At other times, there may be a lot of entries on a journal, but they may be about topics which simply don't interest me that much. Which is absolutely fine, that's what LJ is for, and it may well be that for people with multiple journals, I'll read some but not all of them. It really isn't about the writers as people (in most cases), it's about how their words affect me. This is the same reason I have fascinating books written by people who (by all accounts) are complete tossers in person, and why I don't have a copy of any of Ed Jaggard's stuff, despite him being a friend of the family
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This explains so much.
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I'll freely admit that one of the things I do before adding a new flist entry is scroll back ten or twenty entries in that journal and check the date. If the tenth-last entry is from 2005 or so, I'm probably not going to miss much by leaving that journal off the list.
At other times, there may be a lot of entries on a journal, but they may be about topics which simply don't interest me that much. Which is absolutely fine, that's what LJ is for, and it may well be that for people with multiple journals, I'll read some but not all of them. It really isn't about the writers as people (in most cases), it's about how their words affect me. This is the same reason I have fascinating books written by people who (by all accounts) are complete tossers in person, and why I don't have a copy of any of Ed Jaggard's stuff, despite him being a friend of the family ( ... )
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