rejectomorph | Mildly Amused

What always makes me laugh about these people are that half of the people they add are deeply offended by it. Like suddenly they never realised anyone could add them and read what they write. As if the whole friends feature is taking liberties and should be banned.

There seem to be a lot of people who want some sort of system whereby they can prevent people from adding them to their friends list without permission. Some of them have made that request in the poll in the latest Paidmembers post. It seems remarkably silly, since those same unwanted people could still read all their public entries. Ah, well. I guess it just wouldn't be LJ without a certain amount of paranoid melodrama.

yeah, i went last night to see who this was who had added me and couldn't believe the hysterical tone of the people demanding he take them off his list. i never saw anything like that. now i'll go look to see if the penguin boy you link to is the one with the icon of a guy with horrible snakes or something coming out of his eyesockets. i've seen that icon around and can't look straight at it.

Yup, penguinboy is the guy with the weird icon. Or the especially weird icon, since a lot of LJ icons are weird. His posts are even more weird. I sort of like them, but not enough to add him to my already jam-packed (for me) friends page.

I have tons of idiots add me, mainly because they don't understand the whole friends feature and just think it's a place to put names, kinda like interests.

It would be nice sometimes to remove all those people, but only in order to make my user info page look tidy again, (I have friends of hidden at the moment, although it's freely available through the directory). I guess I'm just a clean freak.

I thought hideous penguin boy was funny in a twisted sort of way.

On the other hand being added to communities cheeses me off. Go figure.

Hideous penguin boy is one very weird dude. He writes as though he's spent his life reading French symbolist poets while living in bland American suburbia. Which he probably has.

I've never been added to a community. I didn't know it could happen. I thought you had to join.

RIP Spamistan.

The owner of a community can add people at will.

I gave up on Nation States because the issues kept repeating and I couldn't stomach the war games in the forum.

I guess no owners of communities consider me worth adding.

Clearly, I'm a bum.

I've spent very little time in the Nation States forum. I can hardly ever get into it, for one thing-- I keep getting "error creating session" notices. And it is rather low on humor. A few people have made entertaining posts there (Foolsland's posts were usually good for a laugh, but they seem to have given up on the whole thing, too), but most of the posts are dull and unimaginative. I'm still doing the repetitive issues, though, because I want to see how big my nation can get.

Perhaps all my oppressed citizens will move in with you now that they are homeless.

I think most folks don't want to ba associated with him because of his interest list. This seems to happen every so often... some monkey just adds a zillion people, usually in the hopes that they'll get at least a half-zillion reciprocal adds.

Many people don't understand that the nature of LJ is that you can read other folk's public entries. I've wanted to shake off the dead wood (long abandoned journals) off of my list, just so I can see who's really alive.

As I said in another reply on this page, I doubt that treeboy is actually reading all those journals he has listed. He's probably just a bored kid seeking drama. The really weird people who are reading this stuff are probably not the ones who add us to their friends lists, but the ones who just lurk in anonymity. People just have to realize that, unless they make their posts friends-only or private, the next Charley Manson could be reading them right now. They can't expect complete privacy here any more than they can expect it if they write a letter to the editor of their newspaper.

There are a few journals listing me as a friend which appear to be dead, but I can't be sure, because some people use them only for reading, and have no inclination to either post or comment. A few months ago, I removed from my friends list a journal I thought was dead, because there had been no posts in it for almost a year, and I had received no comments from the owner. A couple of days later, that journal vanished from my friend-of list, as well. Apparently, the owner was paying attention.

I tend to delete folks that haven't posted ina long while, just to shake the apples free of the tree, as it were. Only rarely have they returned to remove me back. I keep a few people on my firend's list, even though they rarely post (some haven't written in over a year!) but I know they keep the friend's list to read.

I generally email folks to introduce myself, and let them know that I'm reading 'em, now, just in case they have some sort of heebie geebies about a stranger linking in.

LJDrama.org (http://www.ljdrama.org/)

I had forgotten about that site. Treeboy isn't mentioned there, yet, but I've submitted the URL, to perpetuate the drama. Maybe it will show up there soon. I am aware, of course, that this may have been treeboy's intent all along-- to make it into the archives of LJDrama. If so, once he's gotten he wants, he'll probably lose interest and move along to his next plot. I'm still moderately amused.

I'm cautious about adding people, and read several people that I haven't added, like people with huge lists of friends already. I do try to let people know if I'm lurking. The friends thing is for convenience, but if someone's writing is exceptional, I'll take the time to look them up! If someone objected to being read/commented on, I'd certainly stop.
As far as the "interests" list goes, some people sincerely try to list their interests, some try to seem to be something they're not, and some just have fun with it. You can't take that seriously.
I checked out the two names you listed--sure sounds like the same writing. Probably lots of people would enjoy it, but he should just join a couple of writing communities and let people find HIM, since it seems to be freaking people out.

I doubt that the treeboy is actually reading all the journals he has on his friends list. This is especially true if he is, in fact, a creation of the penguinboy, who has over 700 journals on his friends list. Nobody could keep up with all that. Most likely, he's just some bored kid who wants to stir people up and create drama. If it is penguinboy, I wish he'd spend his time writing something, instead. His stuff is odd but entertaining, though he seldom posts. If he worked at it, he might become an interesting writer.

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