A Poll about Livejournal. ANSWER IT.

[slemslempike]

Am still waiting for feedback from the report in the way of what papers to write from Supervisor. One of the journals I was looking at charges contributors $65 per page for submissions - is this normal? The journal itself seems to be a respected one.

I had a good moan this morning with the office manager about everything but especially the crapness of this place and especially Supervisor, including attitudes towards gender. Then Nice RA came over and bought me mid-morning cake and drink because I forgot my wallet today.

I am quite bored. I don't want to play games (but if I DID, I bloody well WOULD, and only a slight sense of the ridiculous stops me from playing them even though I don't want to), so here is A Poll. No-one can see the answers except me, so you'd better be damn salacious in your responses.


[Poll #530125]

Comments

[felinitykat]

Final box sooo short. Boo.

Very interesting poll. Hope you enjoy the results!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I meant to make it 255 like the others, boo.

It was half from your poll, nicked unashamedly, and then I wanted to know how people experienced the niceness of lj. Didn't stop me asking who they couldn't stand though...

[biascut.livejournal.com]

I've heard rumours that there are some who have got off with/had sex with person or people that they met through LJ, or who regard certain people on their friends list as potential shags. Naturally, I cannot condone this sort of attitude.

My friends list is a mixture of types of people. A couple were RL friends, first, some have become RL friends, some I'd like to bcome RL friends. Others are people whom I find interesting but don't necessarily like. A few are people I never actually read but it would be rude to defriend them. Thank heavens for check boxes!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Naturally not; that would be the end of civilsed culture! My poll did not list such activities as my pure mind cannot conceive of such a thing.

That's pretty much exactly how I feel about my flist, except that I did some unfriending a while back because I realised that I just wasn't reading some people, so now I read everybody. I do check in occasionally though with the people not on my flist anymore, as I still want to know that they're doing okay.

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

WHAT? That's DISGUSTING.

[nerdcakes.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I can click all of the first set of boxes and only about half of the second ones. Clearly am an LJ golddigger. Oh dear.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Not at all! If you click even one of the first lot of boxes, you're putting something into the community. And not clicking the second lot at all isn't a signed contract that you will never do anything for anyone else ever.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

There wasn't a box for 'confused mixture of friend and acquaintance' - some people on my friends list don't (as far as I know) read my journal, and I definitely consider them acquaintances rather than friends. On the other hand, the people who do comment in my journal (or who have conversations with me in their journal - some interaction, anyway) are more than acquaintances. I'm conscious that knowing someone through LJ isn't the same as knowing someone well in real life, though. So far I have met no LiveJournallers in real life, that I know of, anyway.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I've met quite a few in real life now, and it's surprising how easy it is to maintain the same communication thing when you go back to online relationships, for me at least. In September I'm moving in with two ljers (that I have met in real life too), and I'm going to be really interested to see what changes in our online communication.

[jekesta]

Yay poll yay!

Last box too short, but what I was saying before it cut me off so I settled for just listing things instead, was: That I don't tend to crush on people on lj so much. Sometimes I crush on a journal for a few days and want to read every single little thing in there and I look at their userinfo and see how very perhfect it is but I separate journals from people a bit somewhat a bit ys. And I listed the journals that I loves most but not you because you are here and it's a bit like not having the answer in the clue in a crossword.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I did that box wrong - I meant to change it to 255 but obviously I somehow didn't. Bah.

I like filling in polls like that, but then I BURN with curiosity for DAYS afterwards. This is much better, knowing what the answers are.

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

And now WE'RE burning with curiosity! :-)

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Ahahahaha! Or something less maniacal, perhaps. Soon everyone will do the polls, and then we'll be satified, until we realise that we don't know if the answers given to all the polls are the same!

[glitterboy1.livejournal.com]

Hee! I'm thinking that I should do a poll, too. But I should probably do some work first. Boo!

[cangetmad.livejournal.com]

Work is a conspiracy to KEEP US DOWN. Post a poll right now!

[rms10.livejournal.com]

I love how the box for ljers you can't stand has much more space than the box for favorite ljers.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I didn't mean to do that! I meant to push them both up, but apparently I forgot to do it.

[peeeeeeet.livejournal.com]

It is pleasing that we're all complaining we don't have enough space to list our favourites / the people we fancy.

Eeeee, I had something else to add but have forgotulated it. My right hand is a bit puffy and spongey today for some reason. I hope it is alright.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Ooh dear. Overuse?...

I'm really cross, because I now know that I'm missing out on possibly dozens of favourites/crushes just because of my own incompetence! My nosiness will never be sated!

[peeeeeeet.livejournal.com]

Ah, but I use my left hand for... that.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

*looks innocent* for typing?

I fondly remember a very drunken conversation with a housemate about the practicalities of text sex and having to decide where to put the dominant hand to best use.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

I didn't answer the favourites/unfavourites questions. My favourite people are the people on my flist I actually have conversations with, which isn't a terribly secret bit of information. There isn't anyone I can't stand (although I did rather lose my temper with someone recently, which I'm a bit ashamed of really) so I couldn't answer that one anyway.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

There's no-one I know who I dislike, but occasionally on friendsfriends, or communities I come across someone that amazes me badly.

[irrtum.livejournal.com]

Hi, since we only added each other yesterday I'm holding back on the last two for now! Liking Antonia Forest means you are a Very Great Person and counts for a lot, but I am still a bit too scared of the internet to give out that kind of information on the sceond day.

I bet you anything we have RL people in common in Manchester. My partner does Women's Studies.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I would do the same, probably, although I do enjoy finding random journals with polls about ten entries back and answering very weird things. I've just realised that I didn't put a thingy saying that I would never reveal the secrets entrusted to me, nay even under tortue. (I won't, for anyone who's worried, but that means either people are very trusting or very loose-lipped.) Unlike Malise... Another AF fan! Glorious. Do you know a) that there's an AF conference in June next year b) that there's an lj discussion community at trennels and c) that there's an excellent Marlow/Hogwarts crossover at rose_and_lizard?

I have spent this year as a hermit, give or take two people, so I barely know anyone in RL in Manchester. I was going to do my WS PhD at Manchester from this September, but I've wound up heading back up to Lancaster.

[irrtum.livejournal.com]

I must confess I only read one AF book, but very, very many times. I think I should read them all in time for that conference next year. Have a sweet?

It's a shame you're going to Lancaster! It's probably too late to ask if you want to come to the quiz at the Cornerhouse tonight with roughly a fifth of my flist, isn't it? So far there haven't been many questions on children's literature though.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Which book have you read? If you like, I can lend you some, only I'd have to have them back by the 28th because that's when I'm moving! I love AF a little too fervently for some people's liking sometimes.

Tonight is a little too short notice, as I'm having to work late (grr) but thank you. I didn't know they did quizzes there. I'm currently applying for a job that would mean spending half a week in Manchester though, so I'm hoping I get to still do somethings here despite being in Lancaster.

[irrtum.livejournal.com]

Autumn Term, I think. And yes I'd love to borrow one before the 28th - it's not like I should be writing my dissertation at all, pshaw, September is still far away. Hey maybe you could come to the quiz next week? We've started going every week recently. Last time we won two bottles of Carlsberg.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

September is ages away. What would you like to borrow? I have them all. There is the next one in the overall series (The Marlows and the Traitor, holiday story with spies and intruige), the next one of the school stories (End of Term) or a completely different one?

The quiz sounds like great fun actually - what time is is on?

[(Anonymous)]

School story pleeeease, those are my favourite. I have had to read so many convoluted German spy and intrigue novels this year that my head is quite dizzy with them.

The quiz starts at 8.30 and we usually meet up in the bar at around 8, please do come! Tonight we won a book, a cinema ticket and two bottles of Bud. We are getting better all the time.

[irrtum.livejournal.com]

Well that creeped me out a bit.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I assume that was you? Hee! End of Term is probably your best bet then. S'a special copy - it used to belong to Antonia Forest, and it's signed on the title page.

I will mark the date in my diary for next Monday. I am very enthusiastic about quizzes, but not nearly as skilful as I would like to believe.

[pathology-doc.livejournal.com]

I thought the crushes part of the last question was interesting, but potentially confusing. One can find a person's journal extremely interesting to read and worth commenting on regularly, and extract from that person's posts an idea of them as a person that one might like or wish to meet in real life, but that's a different thing to having a crush IMO.

One might of course also realise after sufficient perusal of their LJ that the other LJer in question is still interesting to read and reply to on a regular basis, but that one would definitely NOT wish to meet them in real life, let alone have a crush on them!

Such are the perils (and benefits) of human diversity.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Crush is for whatever people want it to mean - for some people it's a 'proper' crush (and I know several people who first met their partners online, and had a relationship that way before ever meeting in real life, some of whom are now in long term relationships) and for some it's just a handy term for the person on your flist who makes your heart leap everytime you see their icon and realise that you get to read a new post or comment.

[zoje-george.livejournal.com]

I'll just sit here and look shifty, thanks.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

You titilate my curiosity, madam!

[zoje-george.livejournal.com]

Hah!

What are you curious about? My inappropriate and extremely unlikely crush or my free-flowing seething irritation with a lj person?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Boooooooooooooooooth! Especially the crush. But, especially the seething irritation. I am drawn to capricious dislikes and well-researched and developed hatred alike.

[zoje-george.livejournal.com]

I think the crush is self-explanatory. But I also have LOTS of crushes on LOTS of people on my f'list. I frequently threaten Johnny Trash with, "Oh if you don't want me I have loads of beautiful lesbians in Ireland, Scotland, and England who'd be HAPPY to have me, yes I do!" Heh. I get big brain crushes ALL THE TIME. Write something well and I go all swoony... until the next well written thingy comes along, then I'm all swoony at that.

As for my seething thorn in the side irritant... my Jerome entry illuminates much. Well developed, well researched annoyance.

[enidw.livejournal.com]

The $65 per page thing is not normal and I reckon in no way should be encouraged. They can only get away with it because people have to publish or be out on their ear.