LJ angsting, plus wacky poll

[emmagrant01]

Everyone is putting up these polls asking "Where are you going to do most of your posting from now on?" and I am so reluctant to answer that yet. It feels too soon. There's never an answer along the lines of "I'm going to wait and see what happens." I'm actually starting to get a little stressed about it because I'm watching friends scatter to the horizons while they turn around and say, "You coming or not? Decide now plz."

I'm getting used to having two flists, though I agree with many others that all the crossposting is really hurting the connectivity of fandom. So yeah, maybe it would be better if everyone just picked one place to post and stuck to it. I think this will all settle out eventually, but for now it's a bit frustrating to watch everyone flail.

Okay, then, decision: For now, I'm going to stop crossposting to IJ. If you want to read me, LJ is the place to do it. And I'll read two flists for a while and see how that works for me.


[Poll #1041704]

Comments

[green-key.livejournal.com]

Take my choice of money over true love with the grain of salt given those recently (and bitterly) divorced. *G*

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

LOL! Yeah, I can see that.

[empathic-siren.livejournal.com]

What a fun poll! Thanks for this!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thanks. :-)

[fourth_rose]

You've summed up my own feeling on the whole multi-journal thing. I think it's much too early to decide, and it makes me sad to see that some people are burning all their bridges already.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I know. I tend not to be an early adopter myself; I just follow where everyone else goes. And it takes time for the group to collectively decide where it's going to go. :-P

[hominysnark.livejournal.com]

No option for Dr. Pepper?

*cries*

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Hee! I am mean and forcing you to choose between those limited options. Let's assume you can have all the Dr. Pepper you want, though. ;-)

[meri-oddities.livejournal.com]

I don't know what I'm doing with the whole journaling thing. I've got too many friends here to leave. I'm not just in HP fandom, either. And no one else is leaving. It's like being schizophrenic or something, you know.

I don't like LJ, but I'm sort of tied to it. And there isn't much happening on IJ. Only a handful of people are posting.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I'm seeing people post on IJ that they see the whole fandom moving there, and I just don't see that myself. Right now I see a handful of people have moved, and that most people are crossposting.

Yeah, I'm not happy with LJ either, but it's home. I'm going to be unwilling to leave it unless it looks like I'm going to be the only one left. :-P

[tarie.livejournal.com]

God, you've taken the words right out of my mouth. I'm so stressed out by the whole thing, as are we all. This has been weeks now of frustration, irritation, and short tempers. I'd quite like it to be over now.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

And sadly, I don't think it will be for a while. Though things seem to have settled out a bit in the last week. Rather than four journals, people seem to be trying to choose between two now.

[spark-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

Just how bad the leaving-LJ-situation is for fandom can be seen from my flist - not a month after the release of the last piece of canon our fandom will receive, fic amounts to less than a fifth of the posts. I am cross-posting like the Net is mine, but to say that I will follow three flists will mean that I don't know the first thing about myself. :shrugs: I see many people head over to IJ but honestly, I am not sure I can get used by the amount of headache-y stuff there. Just...no. Scribblit, on the other hand is currently not yet up, but promises to be at least pretty. I'm on the 'waiting for the dust to settle and mirroring in the meantime' team. :/

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I'm going to wait and see. And I think I'll stop crossposting for my own sanity. If people really don't want to read me here, that's okay.

[coffeejunkii.livejournal.com]

for me it's not even a matter that all of my flist wants to move, but that significant parts of it--people who are not in hp, rl friends--have no intention of moving. so i don't really want to migrate. i'm also lazy.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I only have fandom friends here, but I feel the same way. I really don't want to go yet. If I were being directly targeted by a lot of this crap, I'm sure I would feel differently.

Though I do worry that a lot of fanartists will feel like fandom is not supporting them if we don't move, you know?

[yodels.livejournal.com]

Ha...I was totally inconsistent, some I answered as they applied to me now, and some for wishful thinking. However, I am single-minded in my love for cheddar.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Hee! Well, it's not like it's a serious poll anyway. ;-)

[dramaphile.livejournal.com]

ugh artificial sweeteners are so nasty! I think I'm one of those 'supertaster' people- I can taste fake sugar a mile away- all gross and chemical-y!

Also, it's far too difficult to pick a favorite cheese. It's like picking a favorite child!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I made the damn poll and I even had a hard time choosing a cheese. :-P

I'm a splenda fan in beverages. Real sugar leaves a bad taste in my mouth. But in foods, there's definitely something missing if the sugar isn't real. It's a cooking chemistry issue there, though, and not just a flavor one. :-)

[j-folked.livejournal.com]

I feel exactly the same way. It's come to a point I'm checking my f-list once a week, sometimes even less, I'm so stressed over all this issue. And that won't do, because this is where I'm supposed to get relaxed! I just, I mean, I do have all the 10 additional journals everyone else is creating, but I've had my GJ for more than a year and I don't think I've ever even changed the default layout.

I just think we are making it so easy to them, to Big Corporate. They don't really have to do anything to 'clean' (as SixApart said they wanted to do with LJ) of fandom. Just suspend/erase some users and the rest is in motion. I plan to stick here until I'm tossed out.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I think I'm far more addicted than you, hee! I can't stay away, even when it's stressful. :-P

Yeah, I agree, but if I were a fanartist, I think I'd be gone already, because they are being targeted in really random ways. And are we not supporting them by not moving with them? I just don't know.

[mizbean.livejournal.com]

I've noticed that when I cross post to IJ I get more comments than I do on my LJ, which I think may have to do with people's IJ friendslist being smaller. I've also noticed that I've gotten comments on my IJ from people who have never commented on my LJ even though they've had me friended for ages. It's part of the reason why I keep cross-posting there. I don't like the fragmentation either, though.


You didn't have an option for non-soda drinkers:p

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

My experience has been just the opposite, which shows me that most people are still reading me here, at least for now. We'll see where this all goes...

Mwahaha, my poll is made of evil! ;-)

[wildestranger.livejournal.com]

I like this kind of poll. Not only do I know all the answers (which, after all these polls about what will you do now, is a relief), but I also take great delight in my choices. It is also a pleasure to see that other people prefer the colour green, wine, and the internet. :)

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Hee! I know -- I totally needed a stress-free poll, one where it didn't really matter which answer you chose or whether your answers were in line with the majority. ;-)

[snowqueenofhoth.livejournal.com]

Aww, you didn't have Tokyo as an option! ;)

I had such a hard time with the colors. I... have always chosen purple for my entire life, but I've discovered recently that my first instinct is now somewhere between black and red. I feel vaguely guilty about this.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I picked a city on every populated continent except Africa, though! And damn, now that I think about it, I should've added in Capetown.

[luredbyvenus.livejournal.com]

Yay! What a fun poll. I so wanted to choose great sex over true love but my traitorous heart/mouse wouldn't let me.

I can barely manage to post in this journal, much less keep up with all the others. I have one everywhere, but I feel guilty every time I see the poor empty things. If I could have it my way, everyone would leave LJ and move to IJ, only because LJ deserves to be left.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

If only it were that easy! Maybe in a few months it will become obvious. For now, it seems too early to be making these decisions. :-P

[treewishes.livejournal.com]

Green? What's with green? (and yes, a fun poll!)

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I know! I'm surprised that one is popular so far. That and brie. Who knew?

[angelbabe_cj]

I'm all for hanging on here on LJ until it seems all of fandom has done a bunk, which I pretty sure won't happen anytime too soon.

I love the wacky poll though. It was fun to answer, even if I did have to think far too hard about some of them. I'm totally not sure that I could give up ipod/cd player for the internet but that seemed the best option.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I figured the internet would be the only very clear choice among all the questions. But I was surprised by some of them!

[novin-ha.livejournal.com]

I'd just like to make it clear that yeah, true love is the best, but it doesn't need to be a twu wuv. It doesn't need to be romantic at all, but loving and being loved definitely number one.

Cause there was no "true friendship" option!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

Ah, but you can define true love however you want! ;-)

[ciel-vert.livejournal.com]

Best. Poll. Evar! :)

Previously I might have picked "true love" over "great sex", but it's just not something I could handle right now. Great sex on the other hand... well, yeah. That I could handle any time! ;)

About the flists and crossposting: what's bothering me about it is that people aren't commenting to entries all in one place, so the conversations are becoming fragmented. I don't really know what to do about it though. I'm mainly here, but I do try to keep up to date with IJ. I definitely read there, and more often than not I crosspost there as well. It's just getting difficult to keep up with. I'm over GJ completely though, and I'm really only using my JF account to keep up with Fandom Wank. So yeah... I guess LJ and IJ for me, for now.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

The fragmentation is really starting to become problematic, IMO. I mean, that's why I've never crossposted my fic much -- I wanted all comments and discussion to be in one place. And that's even more important for non-fic posts.

So yeah, I can handle two flists. But I think I'd like them to have different content.

[rickey-a.livejournal.com]

polls like this are always hysterical because they have no context
like I've done the career and world travel, grew tired, so now I'm settled down
but if you had asked me that question 15 years ago...
anyway, ain't perspective grand?

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

It was intended to be totally random and unimportant, but it's funny how many people have commented to explain their choices. ;-)

[fishsanwitt]

Yeah, it bothers me as well. I'm trying to read IJ but I'm mainly posting here, but I have new friends at IJ, so I don't want to leave them out - ::head explodes::

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

As I've said a couple of places above, I can totally handle having two flists. But it would be better if there was different content on each, you know?

[cordelia_v]

I'm going to keep cross-posting for a while yet. But I think that eventually, I may only post links here to my content on IJ. That way, people who read only LJ can follow my posts there, if they like, and the discussion will be consolidated.

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I'm at a point where I really don't mind keeping up with two flists. Linking back and forth would be just fine for me, but it's started to become difficult to see the same content in both places and different conversations going on in each place. I think that it will all settle out eventually and those two flists will be distinct.

[batagur.livejournal.com]

True love, great sex, fantastic career, money?

All of the above please!

And who would chose anything other than REPTILE!!!

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I put the reptile choice in just for YOU, you know. ;-)

[moia.livejournal.com]

This poll was really fun :)
Aww, Hong Kong is getting no love - I'm the only one who's picked it so far :( It's a great and crazy city and I quite like it.
I hate all soda really, but I picked 7up because it's closest to lemonade... only I prefer the real thing - you know, made from real lemons ;)
Brie is the best cheese in the whole world! :D
And I am slightly upset you didn't have orange for a favourite colour option, I had to pick the closest to it: red :P

I don't like the fragmenting effect of multiposting/moving to other sites very much, but I am not too upset over having multiple flists to read... I am just too lazy to look everyone up on other sites and so I'm sure there are posts I'm missing lately :/

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I love how seriously people seem to be taking this poll!

I agree on the multiple flists. I can handle that.

[celestialseason.livejournal.com]

Fun Poll!

Too hard to choose on some of them though :-)

[emmagrant01.livejournal.com]

I'm finding it a bit funny how seriously some people are taking it! ;-)