Feedback on my journal and friends lists

[pne]

Poll ganked from ali_anarres and only slightly modifed.

Edit: In particular, where the poll says "this year", feel free to assume either 2003 or 2004; 2003 is probably more meaningful.

[Poll #234223]

Comments

not in one or more custom groups

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

You're not on my "IRL" filter. For obvious reasons. And I mostly use that one to read (so I can, if I'm in a rush, just see what's up in the lives of my real-life friends, and not internet friends or communities), not to post to.

And each of my real-life friends has their own filter, so I can post to just certain people about certain things. The non-IRL friends are in two groups, unimaginatively labeled 1 and 2 based on how well I know and like them (and hence how much of myself I'm willing to share with them).

Re: not in one or more custom groups

[pne.livejournal.com]

This might be an appropriate place to mention this:

I wonder whether you changed your filters in the past, because I remember I used to be in some kind of "trustworthy" filter (which included this post (http://www.livejournal.com/users/sparkofcreation/116391.html), which I memorified but which I cannot read any longer) but am not in that any more.

I was curious whether I moved from "1" to "2" (or vice versa), or whether this was an artifact of renaming custom groups or something. That is, whether I was consciously removed from the "trusted" filter or not.

Re: not in one or more custom groups

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

I got rid of that filter, though mostly accidentally.

All my filters got renamed one day (it was a huge, huge mess; for example, the "only my three best real-life friends can see" filter became the "everyone can see except one person" filter*... you can see the difficulties) and in the re-doing them, some never got re-made. I think the post you're referring to was on the "Not-IRL" filter, the opposite of the "IRL" folder. The IRL filter was re-made; the Not-IRL filter became the "1" (more trusted) and "2" (less trusted, usually newer additions to my friends list) filters. You're on the "1" filter. So you're still in the "trustworthy" filter, but it has a new name, so you can't see the posts that were under the old filter.


*I have a person my friends list who's anorexic and I exclude her from the rare posts where I obsess over my weight.

Re: not in one or more custom groups

[pne.livejournal.com]

Ah, I wondered whether it might have been something like that. (At least, after my initial reaction of shock mingled with disappointment.)

I think the post you're referring to was on the "Not-IRL" filter

Mmmm... I seem to recall it had something to do with "trust", not so much IRL or not. (Perhaps you can still tell from looking at the custom groups associated with that entry? Not sure how that works once you've fiddled around with your groups. Probably not.)

Re: not in one or more custom groups

[sparkofcreation.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I forget what all my filters were called. I think there were a couple called "Not-IRL" something. I just glanced at the entry, so I can't be sure what I was getting at.

In any case, it's because I ended up not re-making a lot of filters after that fiasco.