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

[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.