In defense of LJ
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shalanna[EDIT: I forgot something important. I have a paid account, so I not only have a bunch of userpics, but also I don't have any ads or banners or whatnot! I never see any of that on anyone else's LJ, either. I can leave the browser window open or minimized for years with an LJ displaying and never get an "IE needs to close because of an add-on screwing up or some ad that needs to refresh the page, dear" error. On other blogging sites, the ads in the right-hand side of the window or the header ads BUG THE HECK OUT OF ME. This can't be cured with an aggregator. Possibly with one of those blocker things, but then we get complicated and it'll mean I get the "Windows is running out of virtual memory" error sooner. Points to LJ!]
I think LJ is a pretty good place to journal/blog. Sure, anyplace has its problems, but I think LJ works really well.
I've never had any problems with the comment function. I hear from my friends on other blogsites that they get a lot of robot-sent spam in the comments. I've never had even one. I have the option turned on that records the IP address, and most of the people who comment here are LJ'ers, so maybe that makes a difference. I usually get my comments e-mailed to me pretty quickly, and if I miss them, it's because I'm not payin' attention. 'Course, I don't have that many comments. I like the way that comments can be threaded and read as threads--it reminds me of GEnie and the way that the old RoundTables worked.
I like having the entries of everyone I regularly read aggregated into a friends page. I don't like having to go to the page for one of the other aggregators and having to deal with all that. I'm already here on LJ. I'm subscribed to the blogs of a few people who have an RSS feed or whatnot, too.
When an author has a blog elsewhere, or on his/her own website, it's sometimes harder to leave a comment. You have to log into Google/Blogger or let LJ pass your identity over . . . unless you want to be one of the Anonymous gang. I don't know how those automated bot things get past the place where you have to type the funny words, but apparently they do, as people do get unwanted spam on their comment threads. Who knows . . . maybe it's the cute userpics.
I just like LJ. What can I say? I'm glad that the LJ Dude had the idea and created it.
I think LJ is a pretty good place to journal/blog. Sure, anyplace has its problems, but I think LJ works really well.
I've never had any problems with the comment function. I hear from my friends on other blogsites that they get a lot of robot-sent spam in the comments. I've never had even one. I have the option turned on that records the IP address, and most of the people who comment here are LJ'ers, so maybe that makes a difference. I usually get my comments e-mailed to me pretty quickly, and if I miss them, it's because I'm not payin' attention. 'Course, I don't have that many comments. I like the way that comments can be threaded and read as threads--it reminds me of GEnie and the way that the old RoundTables worked.
I like having the entries of everyone I regularly read aggregated into a friends page. I don't like having to go to the page for one of the other aggregators and having to deal with all that. I'm already here on LJ. I'm subscribed to the blogs of a few people who have an RSS feed or whatnot, too.
When an author has a blog elsewhere, or on his/her own website, it's sometimes harder to leave a comment. You have to log into Google/Blogger or let LJ pass your identity over . . . unless you want to be one of the Anonymous gang. I don't know how those automated bot things get past the place where you have to type the funny words, but apparently they do, as people do get unwanted spam on their comment threads. Who knows . . . maybe it's the cute userpics.
I just like LJ. What can I say? I'm glad that the LJ Dude had the idea and created it.
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Date: 2008-02-01 03:58 am (UTC)well said!!
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Date: 2008-02-01 04:36 am (UTC)As for commenting, now that Blogger as well as LJ are using OpenID, I can comment on LJ with my Blogger ID or on Blogger with my LJ ID. It's just a quick transaction and nothing should be saved, other than the link back to your journal or blog or whatever. OpenID is the future and it really brings the various services online closer.
So, while I have my LJ and a community for any icons I make, I also have 10 or so blogs on Blogger, which I found a lot easier to learn and use and which allows me to add things to my sidebars that I can't on LJ because they use Javascript. Thank goodness someone came up with an html version for the Library Thing widget so I was able to add it to my LJ (now in my profile). I wish I could add a Twitter widget, too.
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Date: 2008-02-01 03:11 pm (UTC)