eli: (not this again)
eli ([personal profile] eli) wrote2007-11-29 11:54 pm

slightly tipsy-sleepy-attempting-to-think-ishness

The idea of "I'm so tired, I can't fall asleep" is crap. I am asleep. I am just also functional, kind of.

And not that I'm using you all as a sleep aid or anything, but I thought I'd run through the last day or so, and maybe get a glimpse of the locked and cut stuff that GReader doesn't see. Which reminds me of, and I should leave for later, my flail about why OH WHY can't people just put CLEAR and CONCISE subject lines on their posts that tell me whether or not I want to be expanding what you've said on an Internet connection that goes through my company? I KNOW. I'M BEING IRRATIONAL. PARANOIA MAKES FOR DREAMS OF THE WORLD BEING VERY ORGANIZED, OKAY.

Anyway. What do I run across first? Oh yeah, LJ's newest Thing. For which I have a big old, EH. Someone wants to throw up a barrier around anything on their own journal by formally declaring it adult or explicit, go for it. Have a blast. It's your journal. The thing that had me on edge until I read further and saw that LJ found themselves a person who's capable of communicating! Congratulations, and about time, guys! She's doing a fairly stand-up job so far in the comments on the lj_biz post; look for marla...and I've lost track of where I was. Okay, the thing of worry. It was, naturally, the ability to flag other people's posts. But upon reading further, as far as I can tell, random overzealous/crazypot/hater person can flag a post(er) all they want, but that's not what sticks stuff behind the auto-tag. There is no automatic auto-tagging of anything of yours by anyone who is not you. There is auto-tagging after review, but one hopes with all one's might that LJ will work out a notification and appeals process before anyone has a legitimate case for beating the company over the head again.

So, yes, everything about the flagging of others (oy, I am tired enough for that to sound really dirty) is dependent on the LJ Abuse Prevention Team being people of sound mind, common sense, and relative freedom from dumbass directives from on high. High hopes and past performance are eyeing me, and snickering, but I'm going with positive thoughts for the time being.

...which may be another sign that I need to find a sledgehammer and be done with this ridiculous thing called "wakefulness," but I'd like to think of happiness right now, thanks to Ray Toro and Australia. I just. This is why MCR makes me grin, people. They're like pocket sources of dork-filled awesome, all of them.

[identity profile] jenlev.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I was so confused by the new LJ flagging thing, I'm not sure I even understand it yet...but then I'm easily confused. But I put my birth year on my user profile and then blocked it from viewing and that made all the notification flag thingies go away.

Also, it's frelling cold this morning and Indigo just fell off the table by the window and I miss you. *smooch*

And...organized is good.

[identity profile] thepouncer.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
LJ is making me cranky, even with their efforts to keep this new system from being a force for total evil.

[identity profile] jenlev.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
I was so confused by the new LJ flagging thing, I'm not sure I even understand it yet...but then I'm easily confused. But I put my birth year on my user profile and then blocked it from viewing and that made all the notification flag thingies go away.

Also, it's frelling cold this morning and Indigo just fell off the table by the window and I miss you. *smooch*

And...organized is good.

[identity profile] thepouncer.livejournal.com 2007-11-30 02:11 pm (UTC)(link)
LJ is making me cranky, even with their efforts to keep this new system from being a force for total evil.