Too perspicacious for LiveJournal

[pne]

(via pseudomonas)

Want to search for LiveJournal users interested in the "spice girls"? Can't; LiveJournal won't let you. Nor raccoons or cream crackers.

Explanation here.

Comments

[denial-land.livejournal.com]

Title: I see what you did there! ;)

[otana.livejournal.com]

Ha! I was just going to say that. :P

[pne.livejournal.com]

Explain, please?

[pne.livejournal.com]

I don't get it? Is there some reference I'm missing?

[denial-land.livejournal.com]

there's nothing to get, really, more like, aha, I appreciate this witty pun in the subject. "I see what you did there" is like a standardized phrase for such an occasion ;)

[nyssa.livejournal.com]

Why can't we search for "xyyxyxy"? Somebody pointed that out, but didn't explain what, exactly "xyyxyxy" means. :/ I googled it, with no luck.

xyyxyxy

[pne.livejournal.com]

I can search for it; I merely get no results.

With things such as "perspicacity", on the other hand, I get "Sorry, Dave, I can't let you do that". (Not precisely in those words.)

Re: xyyxyxy

[nyssa.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay. Maybe the guy was just yanking our chains, then.

Also, I propose that, whatever the error message is, it should be changed to "Sorry, Dave, I can't let you do that", perhaps replacing "Dave" with the person's username.

Re: xyyxyxy

[pne.livejournal.com]

Heh. That would be pretty geeky.

(FWIW, the message is currently "Sorry, we're unable to help you find users matching the interests you've provided.")

Re: xyyxyxy

[nyssa.livejournal.com]

Not as geeky as my first thought when seeing "xyyxyxy", which was, "Wait, wasn't it supposed to be 'xyzzy'?". :/

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

It probably has to do with gender identity, polyamory, or sexual orientation.

[ghewgill.livejournal.com]

Google to the rescue:

spice girls inurl:profile site:livejournal.com (http://www.google.com/search?q=spice+girls+inurl%3Aprofile+site%3Alivejournal.com)

It seems pretty pointless for LJ to try to block this sort of thing.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Presumably it's a CYA manoeuvre; many of those are pretty pointless.