Friend's list peskiness.

[scottobear]

Here's the thing.

Reasons for Scotto to trim his friend's list.

1. If the person posts stuff I think will get me in trouble at work. (Nudity, porn links without warning or such)
2. Excessive foul language (seeing f-this and f-that f-the other)
3. Nothing in common, or we never talk
4. My List is too big, and I had to trim somewhere.
5. General Mean-spiritedness
6. I Never see posts in the journal anymore
7. I see 10000 one-line posts in a journal, I'll generally remove them, because it hampers my ability to read the rest of the folks I link to.

I've gone past my limit of reading again, and broken my rule of 'add one, remove two' links. It hurts, because there are a lot of nice people out there, but I simply just cannot keep up with everybody. most of my trimming is due to reasons number 1-4.

My goal is never to hurt someones feelings, and even when I do trim my list, I'll probably go back every now and then to peek and catch up, when I get a chance to catch a breath. I hope I don't hurt anyone's feelings during this process.

That being said, I'm *still* trying to trim my list further down. I don't know what I'm a-gonna do about this.

Comments

[sida-al-hurra.livejournal.com]

Scottobear, my feelings won't be hurt if you take me off. I'm still keeping you (my list is much more manageable). Seriously. : )

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

see, but you don't fall into that 'big 7' list I have there, save for #4. I'm going to see how I do with 80, and run with that. Thanks for your kind words and support, though.

[burgundy.livejournal.com]

I don't know how you can manage with the number you have - I have about half that, and I still find myself skimming/skipping entries on a regular basis. I think most people will understand. The journal is, afterall, ultimately for you. So you do what you can to make it work the way you need it to.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

It's hard. I think it's mainly because of so many folks are interesting but I just can't stay on top of it all.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I hear you... I'm in the same boat!

[http://users.livejournal.com/delusion_/]

Scott.. let's talk.

What if I told you I had a time machine? You could go back to before you added all those people.. and tell your past self not to! Of course, this could have disastrous effects on the future as we know it.. and could even result in a paradox! But no bother, humanity is at stake!

We're going to send you back... to 1985!

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

Gotta get back in tiiiime....

1985, I was 16. Hm..

[jonsey.livejournal.com]

hey if u need to trim them ya have to, i don't think i could handle as many people as u do... kudo's to ya :)

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

So far, so good... thanks for the kind words.

[jonsey.livejournal.com]

hehe i got tons of kinds words

[rejectomorph]

I know exactly what you mean. That is why I've been adding to my list very slowly. I'm up to 14, and have a hard time keeping up with just those! So, I think I'll probably hit my maximum at no more than 30.

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

I think 40 is critical mass for me, too.

[bookfoole.livejournal.com]

I know exactly how you feel. I have less and less time to review more and more journals. Sorry to lose you, but we'll still see each other in bibliographic and the journals we have in common : )

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[scottobear.livejournal.com]

yup! I figured we'd bump head there more often!