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del.icio.usness, poll, and 500th post
So a week ago Monday was my 4th LJversary, and I had this big plan to make it coincide with my 500th post, but then I felt like I should say something deep and significant in my 500th post, and the pressure was too much, and work got crazy, so I never posted. And in the meantime I had a lot of little silly posts I wanted to make, but once again I was weighted down by the need for significance. Sigh.
So instead of posting, I added to my del.icio.us recs . I have a love-hate relationship with del.icio.us. I've had a del.icio.us account for probably two years or so now, but prior to this year I was much more likely to save things through LJ tags (my own essays and recs) or memories (other people fic and essays). This was partly due to a combination of paranoia and laziness; I didn't want to stay logged in to del.icio.us at work, making the del.icio.us shortcut there pretty useless, and I always was always forgetting that password yet never getting around to changing it. Plus, I already had so many memories and tags that the thought of transferring them over to a new system just fed my inertia.
But then when I got heavily into SPN fic at the end of last summer, after I had exhausted all the recs lists I knew about, I started using the delicious search feature to find stories, and liked that a lot better than just googling around. I also just found it really interesting to see what kind of stories people had saved in their own delicious accounts, and what sort of tagging systems they used. So I started saving more of the stories I read there. But of course, now that I spend so much time digging around other people's pages, I get self-conscious about my own, and what it might be saying about me to anyone else poking around the site. Like, a couple weeks ago I was appalled to realize I had three times as many Sam/Dean stories tagged as I had Clark/Lex stories tagged--mainly because I hadn't transferred most of my SV recs from LJ to delicious--so I spent most of a Friday evening entering old SV recs. (Argh. I barely made a dent. That's a project for another time). Another day I looked and thought, wow, considering that about half the SPN stories I read are het, it's surprising how few Sam/Jess stories I have tagged--so I spent the day rereading Sam/Jess stories and tagging them this time. I've done that for...I don't even want to admit how many of the tags I have.
But in addition to the tags I want to be visible to represent me (and my excellent reading taste) to the world at large, there's also the tags I'm not sure I want to cop to. I'm not positive, but I think that even if you privatize a particular bookmark, your tags are still visible to the world? (I could be wrong about this) I had this whole quandary about whether I wanted a Dean/John tag that was visible to the world. (HILARIOUS considering I once compiled an entire list of Luthorcest recs--but delicious is used by more than fans, and it is definitely more searchable than LJ, so I definitely feel more exposed). And then there's the "what lists of my favorite sexual kinks do I really want hanging out for the whole world to see"? Pegging, ok, genderswap, ok, feminization, maybe not so much. Et cetera. And how many stories have to have a certain theme before I actually tag them that way?
And then there's the "network" function. I had had a couple people add me to their network long, long ago and never given it another thought until![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kristiinthedark made a throway comment a while back that made me realize "holy god, some people actually look at that and realize precisely how often I read threesome bondage bodyswap and-then-they-grew-wings" stories," and the blush pretty much covered my entire body. But I also started actually looking at networks and using them to find more fic. Though sometimes the full body blush is out of embarassment for random-person-I-discovered-surfing-someone's-network, because I guess I really didn't need to know how much they loved [insert kink of choice that squicks you] stories.
I actually do want to add more people to my network, but I wonder if that's considered creepy if you don't actually know the person? (More or less creepy than random friending on LJ? What is the netiquette?) And is it more or less insulting to take someone off of your network? I don't know enough people actually using delicious to know these things. And really, what I mainly want right now is people saving SPN and J2 stories. And possibly Buffy. Other weeks I may want SV or HP or whatever my mood is.
The other netiquette thing I was wondering about was describing stories in the "summary" section. I actually remember once reading an author complaining about an insulting delicious summary. I'm not personally too worried about that; if I want to give a mixed review for my own reference later, I just privatize it; for the most part I only bookmark stories I like anyway. But sometimes I bookmark stories I haven't actually left feedback for, for whatever reason--it already has eight pages of comments, or I know the author has moved on from the fandom, or whatever, and I do feel a little guilty about that. Like: if I'm taking time to write a description so I can reread it later, I really should be dropping the author a comment. It's not overwhelming guilt, or anything--and I know people do vanity searches on their own name, and reading the comments is, um, kind of like feedback, right?
SO: now a POLL on your own practices in saving things, using delicious, etc. Cut to spare the non-interested:
[Poll #1172426]
So instead of posting, I added to my del.icio.us recs . I have a love-hate relationship with del.icio.us. I've had a del.icio.us account for probably two years or so now, but prior to this year I was much more likely to save things through LJ tags (my own essays and recs) or memories (other people fic and essays). This was partly due to a combination of paranoia and laziness; I didn't want to stay logged in to del.icio.us at work, making the del.icio.us shortcut there pretty useless, and I always was always forgetting that password yet never getting around to changing it. Plus, I already had so many memories and tags that the thought of transferring them over to a new system just fed my inertia.
But then when I got heavily into SPN fic at the end of last summer, after I had exhausted all the recs lists I knew about, I started using the delicious search feature to find stories, and liked that a lot better than just googling around. I also just found it really interesting to see what kind of stories people had saved in their own delicious accounts, and what sort of tagging systems they used. So I started saving more of the stories I read there. But of course, now that I spend so much time digging around other people's pages, I get self-conscious about my own, and what it might be saying about me to anyone else poking around the site. Like, a couple weeks ago I was appalled to realize I had three times as many Sam/Dean stories tagged as I had Clark/Lex stories tagged--mainly because I hadn't transferred most of my SV recs from LJ to delicious--so I spent most of a Friday evening entering old SV recs. (Argh. I barely made a dent. That's a project for another time). Another day I looked and thought, wow, considering that about half the SPN stories I read are het, it's surprising how few Sam/Jess stories I have tagged--so I spent the day rereading Sam/Jess stories and tagging them this time. I've done that for...I don't even want to admit how many of the tags I have.
But in addition to the tags I want to be visible to represent me (and my excellent reading taste) to the world at large, there's also the tags I'm not sure I want to cop to. I'm not positive, but I think that even if you privatize a particular bookmark, your tags are still visible to the world? (I could be wrong about this) I had this whole quandary about whether I wanted a Dean/John tag that was visible to the world. (HILARIOUS considering I once compiled an entire list of Luthorcest recs--but delicious is used by more than fans, and it is definitely more searchable than LJ, so I definitely feel more exposed). And then there's the "what lists of my favorite sexual kinks do I really want hanging out for the whole world to see"? Pegging, ok, genderswap, ok, feminization, maybe not so much. Et cetera. And how many stories have to have a certain theme before I actually tag them that way?
And then there's the "network" function. I had had a couple people add me to their network long, long ago and never given it another thought until
kristiinthedark made a throway comment a while back that made me realize "holy god, some people actually look at that and realize precisely how often I read threesome bondage bodyswap and-then-they-grew-wings" stories," and the blush pretty much covered my entire body. But I also started actually looking at networks and using them to find more fic. Though sometimes the full body blush is out of embarassment for random-person-I-discovered-surfing-someone's-network, because I guess I really didn't need to know how much they loved [insert kink of choice that squicks you] stories. I actually do want to add more people to my network, but I wonder if that's considered creepy if you don't actually know the person? (More or less creepy than random friending on LJ? What is the netiquette?) And is it more or less insulting to take someone off of your network? I don't know enough people actually using delicious to know these things. And really, what I mainly want right now is people saving SPN and J2 stories. And possibly Buffy. Other weeks I may want SV or HP or whatever my mood is.
The other netiquette thing I was wondering about was describing stories in the "summary" section. I actually remember once reading an author complaining about an insulting delicious summary. I'm not personally too worried about that; if I want to give a mixed review for my own reference later, I just privatize it; for the most part I only bookmark stories I like anyway. But sometimes I bookmark stories I haven't actually left feedback for, for whatever reason--it already has eight pages of comments, or I know the author has moved on from the fandom, or whatever, and I do feel a little guilty about that. Like: if I'm taking time to write a description so I can reread it later, I really should be dropping the author a comment. It's not overwhelming guilt, or anything--and I know people do vanity searches on their own name, and reading the comments is, um, kind of like feedback, right?
SO: now a POLL on your own practices in saving things, using delicious, etc. Cut to spare the non-interested:
[Poll #1172426]