various things, #890786

[charmian]

1. Seriously, LIMERICKS? Isn't there something more useful LJ staffers could be doing? WTF?

2. Posted elsewhere my thoughts on SW3 CG scenes (tl;dr version: LOL, and man, they really changed around some of the non-historical relationships), Aoi Hana (tl;dr version: too lacking in structure?, or maybe I just hate slice of life. Bailed after two vols), and Saiunkoku spoilers (tl;dr version: stuff happens, but a lot of stuff fails to happen yet. As usual recent Saiunkoku reads a lot better if you like the higher officials).

Comments

[dingsi]

I'm also not sure that a photo contest poll should be on News. Together with the Limericks, the Spotlight Community (handmade gifts) and the many paragraphs of quotes from the current Writer's Block question (your thoughts on smoking, show them to us!) I... wouldn't feel like I got anything useful out of this, information-wise.

[charmian]

Yeah, I agree with you. They seem to have recently altered the focus of the news comm to this sort of stuff. I always used LJ as a way of interacting with people who were into the same specific hobbies as me, not as a personal journal, so this sort of stuff is especially useless to me.

[dingsi]

I always used LJ as a way of interacting with people who were into the same specific hobbies as me

Yes, that. I initially registered my LJ to be able to (more easily) read and bookmark things that I was interested in. And although it became something more diary-like since then, the point still stands that if I wanted to know about contests and the like, I'd join the communities for said contests, or maybe check the "spotlight" features that are already there (e.g. LJ's frontpage). On LJ News, I want to know about problems and decisions that directly affect the site and my usage thereof, not some games and popularity contests.

[charmian]

Yeah, since there is already a spotlight community, spotlighting stuff simply seems redundant, and the contests are rather meaningless.