What I really dislike is 5-year-old journals or trolls that added me to friends. I now have a list of 'friends of' that I would rather be rid of.
I would like the option to remove myself from someone's friends page. If they want to read the journal entries that are available to them to read, they can do it at my journal, instead of adding me like some trophy to their profile.
I wish to be completely disassociated with some, and with others, their journal is dead and seeing their username in the friend of category brings up bad memories I wish to pass away. I would really appreciate the ability to remove yourself from being someone's friend.
At the risk of sounding bitchy, I think your putting WAY too much stake in the 'profile'. As you well know, having friends on your list means nothing (and if we were daring enough to presume...) the 'friends of' list is far more accurate to judge someones 'like-ness'. You could simply NOT add them back and they can have a profile that clearly states that although they admire you, you want nothing to do with them.
In other words: I have no idea what your problem with the friends list is. And I dont think the staff do either.
As for the 'friends of' suggestion. Not terrible if it brings bad memories. Perhaps a 'hide list' function from yourself. But the fact is the 'friends of' list is NOT your list, but rather extra information for yourself/others/statistics/whatever. It would defeat the entire purpose of the list if you could suddenly pick and chose who's on it.
Take a few random people I'm 'friend of'. One hasn't posted in her journal for 257 weeks, last I saw. That's literally 5 years, give or take. Even if there was a 'time out' function, she'd no longer be there. Hide list would take care of that.
There's another person, totally offensive, that went around insulting everyone he could and trying to amass a huge friends list. He hasn't posted in his journal ever, really, and the few joke entries he did have were also years ago.
There's also people who have me listed as friends and I think they forgot about it, they give the appearance of having completely forgot about the 'friends' feature of LJ.
I dunno. I just want to clean that list up a little, especially of old users. I think you should have to have permission in order to have someone listed as your friend.
what about the ban_set function in the lj console? that'd remove them from your friend-of listing, though they wouldn't be able to make any comments in your journal in the future (which can be a good or bad thing)...
I don't think the suggestions system itself is currently difficult, the thing that makes it hard in some cases is the sheer number of suggestions that already exist. I'm not really sure there's any other system that would make this any easier to handle, but if you have any ideas on how to improve it, feel free to suggest them!
Making the previous suggestions searchable would help a lot. The tag system only yields relevant similar suggestions about half the time, and is cumbersome to use.
Ditto. I've tried looking through suggestions before, it's more work than it should be. I'm sure it deters some people from researching previous suggestions thoroughly.
You mean a permanent account sale? Those are held pretty infrequently (the last one was at least a year ago, I think, and I missed it because I was out of the country). LJ does hold these sales every now and then, but they don't have a schedule for them, and I don't know when the next one might be (or if there will be a next one - in the past, these were to raise lots of money in a short time, and I'm not sure if LJ needs to do that any more).
yeah. i think the name being kicked around the office was "The WTF Project" which stood for "Watch/Trust/Friend."
if you wanted to see someone's entries on your friends page, you would add them to your "watch" list. if you wanted to grant someone access to your f-o entries or a filter, you would add them to your "trust" list.
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I would like the option to remove myself from someone's friends page. If they want to read the journal entries that are available to them to read, they can do it at my journal, instead of adding me like some trophy to their profile.
I wish to be completely disassociated with some, and with others, their journal is dead and seeing their username in the friend of category brings up bad memories I wish to pass away. I would really appreciate the ability to remove yourself from being someone's friend.
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In other words: I have no idea what your problem with the friends list is. And I dont think the staff do either.
As for the 'friends of' suggestion. Not terrible if it brings bad memories. Perhaps a 'hide list' function from yourself. But the fact is the 'friends of' list is NOT your list, but rather extra information for yourself/others/statistics/whatever. It would defeat the entire purpose of the list if you could suddenly pick and chose who's on it.
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Hiding the list would work.
Take a few random people I'm 'friend of'. One hasn't posted in her journal for 257 weeks, last I saw. That's literally 5 years, give or take. Even if there was a 'time out' function, she'd no longer be there. Hide list would take care of that.
There's another person, totally offensive, that went around insulting everyone he could and trying to amass a huge friends list. He hasn't posted in his journal ever, really, and the few joke entries he did have were also years ago.
There's also people who have me listed as friends and I think they forgot about it, they give the appearance of having completely forgot about the 'friends' feature of LJ.
I dunno. I just want to clean that list up a little, especially of old users. I think you should have to have permission in order to have someone listed as your friend.
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Making the previous suggestions searchable would help a lot. The tag system only yields relevant similar suggestions about half the time, and is cumbersome to use.
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yeah. i think the name being kicked around the office was "The WTF Project" which stood for "Watch/Trust/Friend."
if you wanted to see someone's entries on your friends page, you would add them to your "watch" list.
if you wanted to grant someone access to your f-o entries or a filter, you would add them to your "trust" list.
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