Landmark numbers.

[minxy]

There seem to be 200 people watching this journal, who have friended this journal.

Well, boggle me.

Anyway, I do hereby declare friending amnesty forever, and publically announce that you are always welcome to come and go as you please (which I seriously hope you work from as a baseline, but anyway.)

I am going to try to create a couple of filters today to facilitate someone else taking over the link collecting for the newsletter while I'm off traveling for months and months, in doing so, I might switch people off my daily watch list, or juggle, or possibly defriend if that fandom didn't turn out to take over my brain afterall... So, FYI.

Also, anyone willing to talk to the maintainers at sg1_debrief about stepping up as back up slash-fic link collector person (for October in particular, or in general) is encouraged to head over there and drop a comment. What is required is that you watch a subset of journals not on the watchlist and click any fic you see into a del.icio.us account with a particular tag. No opinions needed, no fuss, no muss. It's not hard, but it's consistent work. The newsletter looks like a lot of work, and it is, but this is the part where the smart smart maintainers delegate out some of the difficult tasks of watching for fanfic to people who would be doing it anyway.

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[troyswann.livejournal.com]

Travels? Come to my town, please. *waits* We have... well not much. Never mind ;) Do have a most grand time traveling, though. If you ever get to Vancouver...

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

...I seriously hope you work from as a baseline, but anyway

Amen!

Calling it "friends list" makes LJ seem more community-like, I know, but I think it does something of a disservice to users because changing one's reading list becomes "de-friending" and that gets emotionally charged.

I feel ridiculous having to say, "hey, if you're of a mind, feel free to 'de-friend' me" because it feels like telling someone something that should be obvious but it also feels like I'm inviting people to leave. I wish they used a word less laden with emotional weight but we're stuck with it, I suppose.

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

Well, in October I'll be on the wrong continent, but am hoping to make it up there sooooon......

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

Wierd how it's developed into a mark of status, how many people have friended you and whether it's mutual and yadda... I think it's amazing that so many people are interested in what I post here, but I'm under no illusions that it reflects on me so much as I'm a pimp and it's a service in fandom.

Really the flist is a convenience, but if it gets to be a burden, heck, I'm willing to call it defriending or whatever if it saves my sanity.

Love the icon, btw.

[kellifer-fic.livejournal.com]

Wierd how it's developed into a mark of status, how many people have friended you and whether it's mutual and yadda

Hah... weird the things people take to heart...

I myself seem to attract lurkers which is fine and dandy with me...

And ofcourse lovelies like yourself... *squidge*

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

Hee! *squidge back*

Now I'm looking, I watch a lot of journals, and there are a lot of people who watch me, but only a subset are mutual pals that I chat with... mostly it's two completely different sets of people.

They're probably waiting for me to post a story, just like I'm waiting for them. *sheepish*

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

Ha! I wasn't aware that it was a mark of status. Oh well. I'm used to not being part of the "in" group. I'll just have to let reflected glory light my way and all that. *grin* Friending is little more than an rss feed, to my way of thinking.

I collect people with interesting brains on my list. :) I friended you because you write good fic and, iirc, because you had really interesting thinky thoughts on Sam.

Love the icon, btw.
I adore this icon. I aspire to icon_ascension's level of expertise some day.