DW/LJ crossposts

[ailbhe]

I had my first irritation at fragmented discussion today. I'm now considering directing LJ readers to comment at my Dreamwidth journal. But I don't want to do that either.

Other than that, I'm considering sending some of the less feelgood pomes to a local publisher. Can I handle rejection? I'm not very good at rejection, but this is a small local cooperative, so I looooove them.

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Re: DW/LJ crossposts

[piranha]

i was? when was that? i apologize. could you please tell me when i am coming across like an arse, so i can fix it? i am not usually meaning to pound on you; i must have been really cranky (but that's no excuse).

this paragraph isn't about you: i _do_ know people who have an anti-DW thing, and they tick me off because they make a big deal about having to go to DW to post, but the very same peple go and comment on blogs elsewhere, which is considerably more effort. i am disinclined to accomodate those much longer. if they want to stop talking to me as a punishment for me leaving LJ, well, be that way. it seems juvenile to me. i make an effort to reply to people wherever they make their home on the net -- i wish that were easier(google wave, maybe), and i don't do it as much as i probably should, but i do try.

i think i see what you mean about the weirdness. i felt some weirdness originally, especially when i was talking a lot about how great dreamwidth is. but i stopped doing that; and am in fact explicitly no longer crossposting DW-specific things. so i don't see it the same way anymore, because:

- i am still paying for my LJ account.
- i'm not crossposting primarily for my own benefit; i'm doing it for the people who're not moving. some of it is for my benefit too -- because i don't want to necessarily lose touch, and i am willing to do my share to not let that happen. but there's a limit to what i consider "my share" to be; repeating myself in comments starts to feel like too much.
- i will basically be doing the same thing a feed does, except i actually have power over the account, unlike a feed, which sucks (as you have just noticed yourself). do you think feeds are also weird? i mean, LJ actively facilitates them.

i hope that wasn't too harsh? (i am serious; i sometimes can't tell.)

Re: DW/LJ crossposts

[serene]

The comment I was referring to is here, but I gotta say, it looks less nasty to me today than it did on that day, and I must apologize for characterizing it as worse than it is. (I honestly haven't looked at it since that day, because it looked so mean to me that day that it made me cry.)

I do think feeds are a little weird, and yet I love them. I think that comparing crossposting-without-comments to a feed is helpful to me; thank you.

Re: DW/LJ crossposts

[piranha]

*rereading*. yeah, i was cranky, and mildly annoyed with you, because i felt you were mischaracterizing people like me.

but i could have said that less harshly, really. that smiley tacked onto the end didn't make up for the ratt-tat-tat tone of the whole thing.

i am sorry it made you cry. *gnarg*. i hate doing that.