On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 1:56 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, but the whole point of interests is to find people who use their > journal to talk about things you find interesting, too. What does it > matter to someone looking up journals they might want to watch for posts > about, say, Italian Opera, that you like Italian Opera if you never > actually post anything about it? There's a difference between never posting about it and never tagging it that way - for example, someone could have tags for _Verdi rocks_, and specific opera titles, or whatever, without ever having a tag for "Italian Opera" Or someone can be interested in it, and in reading about it in other people's journals (and blogs, and other resources) but not at a place where they're talking about it a lot in their own journal. (I have a somewhat fraught musical history, for example, so while I'm deeply interested in people talking about music, whether or not I talk about it a lot depends a lot on how much energy I have to deal with the fraught bits. I can go months without talking about it online, and then do a lot of posts about it in a few weeks.) I think a lot of people are like this about a number of things, too. I also tend to think that "Here's stuff I talk about a lot, and here's stuff I'm interested in, but don't usually discuss" is - when it's relevant and someone wants to be explicit - better shared in their bio info or in a post on their journal, rather than trying to negotiate via interest lists. (Unless one split interests entirely into "I'm interested in reading about" vs. "I write a fair bit about..." Makes for an interesting comparison to the watched/trusted split, actually.) -- Jenett http://gleewood.org/threshold :: http://gleewood.org/reading _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
