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10 Snarky Lj posting rules to live by
Sep. 29th, 2009 09:39 pmSort of a slow work day...puttered a bit on my lj, which I should not be doing.
I keep getting pulled back into the Buffy fandom, which amuses me since about 70% of my flist has appeared to have drifted elsewhere, damn them. I suppose I could join another fandom, but honestly - one is enough. I wonder sometimes why we get obessive about things? House more or less supplied the answer this week - to distract ourselves from other things that we don't and may not want to think about. I.e. To not feel pain or boredom. The two at the moment seem interchangable. Also I think fandom has an odd way of making people feel less alone and connected - think about it, it is an ice breaker. Much safer to argue about Buffy than to argue about oh, politics, religion, racism, feminism, your work...not saying you shouldn't argue about the other things. Just that it is safer to avoid them. I'd rather get into a Buffy kerfuffle than a kerfuffle over well those other three things, having done both, I know whereof I speak.
Regarding LJ posting - 10 Snarky rules to live by (this is me poking fun at myself again):
1. Don't take anything personally. (hard but true) Seriously, they aren't upset with you just your perspective. (Can we still blame Shondra Rhimes for the overuse of the word "seriously"? If so, who can we blame "exactly" on?)
2. When ranting - use cut tags and lots of warnings.
3. When reading a rant - keep in mind you are reading a rant. Rants by definition are not rational. They are not supposed to make logical sense. They are pure emotion. Respond in disagreement at your own risk.
4. Take everything you read on the internet with a grain of salt. I mean everything. People lie, they don't mean to lie, but they lie...fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice..shame on ...okay does that statement ever make any sense?
5. When reading a snarky post like this one please keept in mind that every rule I'm listing I've broken at least once, okay more than once
6. Never respond to a rant or a snarky post with an angry disagreeing rant of your own. Unless you want to inspire your friend, the initial ranter, to kill you, albeit verbally. (You can however do this on your own journal, but keep in mind, they may still want to kill you and you may end up getting blasted as a result.)
7. Never assume that a random post you read on your flist has anything to do with you unless they deliberately name you. (ie. No fair attacking unless you are tagged).
8. Don't waste time worrying and fretting over things you cannot change or do anything about.
9. Just because no one posts a response to your lj - does not mean they don't like you. They might just be busy - with other things, like, you know, responding to the half a million comments in their own livejournal or trying to write a post in their own livejournal or ranting at someone else in their livejournal or having a life outside of the internet (yes, a few people actually have one, mind-boggling I know).
10. Repeat after me, disagreements are good things. They make us grow and become more interesting people. If we surrounded ourselves with people who agreed with us, we wouldn't be challenged ever. So, if someone has taken the time to post that they disagree with you than that means they care what you think and you matter, they are not just doing it to make you crazy.
I keep getting pulled back into the Buffy fandom, which amuses me since about 70% of my flist has appeared to have drifted elsewhere, damn them. I suppose I could join another fandom, but honestly - one is enough. I wonder sometimes why we get obessive about things? House more or less supplied the answer this week - to distract ourselves from other things that we don't and may not want to think about. I.e. To not feel pain or boredom. The two at the moment seem interchangable. Also I think fandom has an odd way of making people feel less alone and connected - think about it, it is an ice breaker. Much safer to argue about Buffy than to argue about oh, politics, religion, racism, feminism, your work...not saying you shouldn't argue about the other things. Just that it is safer to avoid them. I'd rather get into a Buffy kerfuffle than a kerfuffle over well those other three things, having done both, I know whereof I speak.
Regarding LJ posting - 10 Snarky rules to live by (this is me poking fun at myself again):
1. Don't take anything personally. (hard but true) Seriously, they aren't upset with you just your perspective. (Can we still blame Shondra Rhimes for the overuse of the word "seriously"? If so, who can we blame "exactly" on?)
2. When ranting - use cut tags and lots of warnings.
3. When reading a rant - keep in mind you are reading a rant. Rants by definition are not rational. They are not supposed to make logical sense. They are pure emotion. Respond in disagreement at your own risk.
4. Take everything you read on the internet with a grain of salt. I mean everything. People lie, they don't mean to lie, but they lie...fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice..shame on ...okay does that statement ever make any sense?
5. When reading a snarky post like this one please keept in mind that every rule I'm listing I've broken at least once, okay more than once
6. Never respond to a rant or a snarky post with an angry disagreeing rant of your own. Unless you want to inspire your friend, the initial ranter, to kill you, albeit verbally. (You can however do this on your own journal, but keep in mind, they may still want to kill you and you may end up getting blasted as a result.)
7. Never assume that a random post you read on your flist has anything to do with you unless they deliberately name you. (ie. No fair attacking unless you are tagged).
8. Don't waste time worrying and fretting over things you cannot change or do anything about.
9. Just because no one posts a response to your lj - does not mean they don't like you. They might just be busy - with other things, like, you know, responding to the half a million comments in their own livejournal or trying to write a post in their own livejournal or ranting at someone else in their livejournal or having a life outside of the internet (yes, a few people actually have one, mind-boggling I know).
10. Repeat after me, disagreements are good things. They make us grow and become more interesting people. If we surrounded ourselves with people who agreed with us, we wouldn't be challenged ever. So, if someone has taken the time to post that they disagree with you than that means they care what you think and you matter, they are not just doing it to make you crazy.
