On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 11:56 AM, <[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?
I don't think all of people's listed interests are necessarily relevant to people performing interest searches. I don't personally use interest searches to locate people to read based on the idea that I think they will talk about this item. I do refer to someone's listed interests, including things that they never write about, when encountering them and trying to figure out if I think I will get along well with them. Interests have been used to indicate support for an ideological position (see the LiveJournal interest "tits against the RTE", in support of the removal-as-default or complete removal of the Rich Text Editor). It gets used to convey in-jokes, and to show membership in a social clique of people who think this particular in-joke is funny. Any change that would threaten any of the extra uses of the interests feature would have to be very carefully considered. --Azz _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
