rone's rules for voting in the advisory board election

[rone]

• Don't vote for anyone who lists Hogwarts as one of their schools.
• Don't vote for anyone whose claim to fame is based on cosplay.
• Don't vote for anyone who has a hit counter on their profile.
• Don't vote for anyone who's 4 or more LJ friend hops away from you.
• Don't vote for anyone whose journal is friends-only.
• Don't vote for anyone who is obsessed with nude women.
• Don't vote for anyone with more than 500 friends.
• Most importantly, don't vote for anyone who is infamous for making LJ a less friendly place.

If you care, visit lj_election_en. If you don't, then enjoy the weekend.

Comments

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with people who have more than 500 friends?

(not that I'm running. But that's not the point!)

[jsbowden.livejournal.com]

Holy shit John...you have five hundred people you read? How the hell do you keep up?

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I've friended 503 accounts, and 79 syndicated feeds. I've got 538 people who've friended me. No matter which way you take the "more than 500 Friends" comment, I qualify.

And I keep up by virtue of some of them being relatively inactive, and many of them being skimmable - picture posts, news posts, or simply updates of a kind I really don't care about from that person[1]. I'll generally get about 300 posts on a weekday, and that takes me maybe an hour to skim them all, open the ones that look interesting, and read them. I generally do this in my spare time over the course of the day.

And if I have more time, I read in more detail. When I have less time, I only pursue the really interesting ones in depth.

[1]: Personal updates from strangers who post nice pictures, MMORPG updates from people I read for humour posts, etc.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Ugh, for that we have to descend into the awful "what exactly does 'friend' mean on LJ" discussion, and, well, i'm afraid we've run out of time, but tune in next week, when i'll be away from my computer.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Heh. I just figure, I have more than 500 people who've subscribed to read me (and, given that any link I post gets a minimum of 800 hits referred from my post, I suspect I've got more readers who haven't subscribed), and I've got more than 500 accounts that I've subscribed to read in turn. But I don't see why this is inherently disqualifying.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

More often than not, i get the impression that accounts with that many "friends" are just collectors and not actually involved in socializing. This is not a bad thing per se, but for someone running to represent the userbase, it makes me less inclined to support them.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Works for me.