How to LiveJournal like a real person.

[reddragdiva]

That is, a semi-coherent (and somewhat bitter) Usenet refugee.

Well, it's a start, anyway. Disagree here:

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[naughtypixie.livejournal.com]

Semi-coherent indeed! This is bliss compared to my usual eloquence. *smirk*

[redcountess]

I think it should be included in the LJ FAQ :-)

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

Funny, we're just talking on irc about the use of livejournal as a gweepnet news hierarchy refuge, now that people have become irritating on our private hierarchy.

Hooray for internal politics.

[reddragdiva]

Indeed. Replace one set with another!

[mikz.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, I disagree with many of his points, even though I too am a Usenet refugee... but I wasn't actually a citizen of Usenet, more a resident of one of its outer territories.

I've been meaning to put a rant on the evils of the stupid Microsoft-created "put a copy of the entire fucking exchange of e-mail below the reply and write some obscure response to the eighteenth paragraph without refering to it" style of e-mail quoting on my home page for years, though.

[reddragdiva]

Yes, but you're not a fuckhead, which is the essential condition the points are there to guide the unwashed towards ...