Default reading filters and me

Hi! If I've added you to my reading list in the past, um, since reading filters were introduced, and I haven't commented and you thought I would have by now, this is likely because I have not been seeing your entries on my reading page.

This is due to the actually really dumb way the default reading filter is handled.

Ordinarily I don't think Dreamwidth development decisions are dumb, but since I just had a complete crying meltdown over what I'm hoping is an oversight and not a development decision, and had to turn off the contextual hover menu (I love the contexual hover menu kind of a lot) because otherwise I will use it to add people and since I have clearly forgotten this in the past I will forget it again, yeah, I'm calling it dumb. (Not the people involved, but the feature.) Mostly I use the filter to keep the "hi I have codes here" from dw_codesharing off my page, which means that when someone posts one untagged, I will see it and tag it straight away.

If you're adding someone and you didn't mean for them to be in there, and they show up on your reading page, you can see that and alter your filters. If you add someone and expect that they will be in there, and they are not, you don't see this until something makes you realize it. So while I recognize it would be obnoxious for people who don't use the default reading filter the way I do, I think the impact is worse like this.

I didn't realize until now that this was such a dealbreaker for me.

So, yeah, hi. I ordinarily read stuff but sometimes the machines get in the way.

Dreamwidth: Default reading filters and me

In which default reading filters don't work as expected. Hilarity ensues.

New person!

Please welcome ajnabieh to Dreamwidth. She is an activist and ethnographer currently in New York. I have known her since 1995, making her one of my oldest friends on the internet.

The Whitaker Dance

So once upon a time, there were two Brads at LiveJournal: Brad Fitzpatrick (brad, bradfitz) and Brad Whitaker (whitaker).

Whitaker was the sort of guy who creeps into legendary status because his co-workers talk about him enough that people who never knew him learn of his legend and pass it on.

Whitaker is famous in the areas of LJ history that I am aware of for a) "Whitaker's Mom" and b) The Whitaker Dance.


Apparently The Whitaker Dance involved a lot of bouncing up and down and "pointing at your junk".


Buying Whitaker dance lessons: http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/236361.html?thread=7348553#t7348553

Brad tries the Whitaker Dance on the Segway, falls off: http://brad.livejournal.com/2181002.html http://www.picpix.com/brad/pic/0092as6k

A whole tagful of Whitaker Dance pictures, many from http://brad.livejournal.com/2150852.html
http://www.picpix.com/brad/tags/whitakerdance/

The great LJ move (with Whitaker Dance)
http://ljmove.blogs.com/

On ice: http://brad.livejournal.com/2157912.html