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[burntcopper]

Ah, the fun of people not quite comprehending you and the way you normally post/speak/rant, etc when they were linked or someone on their flist took offence...

Remember the headers rant? It got linked a few places as 'amusing to read'. Unfortunately, the people I named also saw it and took it the wrong way. And a couple of their mates came over a bit defensive and in mood for 'what did you say to hurt my friend?' (whilst also agreeing with me on the headers subject) Explained, they went 'oh' (it also seems they didn't get the Dickens comparison), and hopefully it's got back to the original people. hoo boy. They can't link me to the other person because the post was locked.

note to self and other people : I have ridiculously thick skin, communicate by snark and sarcasm, and expect others to do so too. And always, always cite specific examples. And yes, what I say about you in my journal I will be quite happily telling you to your face in front of the entirety of wembley arena. if anything I'm less vicious in my journal.

:ponders what kind of comments I'd get if I announced an anonymeme one day: it occurs to me that most of them have already told me their issues to my face.

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[tirinar.livejournal.com]

Could be wrong but I think she mentioned this on journal ages ago - Friends list had to be culled because of a sheer lack of time to read, so she has a few that she reads whatever and a bundle more she checks in on as and when.

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Yes, quite. Some people use filters to regularly read only a core group of a large friends list, some prefer to only list as friends those they have time to read regularly - arguably this is better as people have a clearer idea of whether they're likely to be read or not, if that matters to them. But either way, different people do different things, and there's no reason anyone should be bothered by this either way; some say, and I see their point, the problem lies with the 'friends' terminology, which should be better understood as something more like 'reading list'. Heather knows I read her, has never minded my commenting, and is always polite in replying to me, so it's all cool ;-) I just wanted to clarify to the original commenter.