How To Deal With High-volume Posters (Without Shooting Them)

[theweaselking]

People comment that I post a lot. Here's how to keep reading me without letting me swamp your friends page, because I *like* using this thing as a brain dump.

http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=102

"If you create a custom friends group named "Default View", visiting your standard Friends page will display only entries from members of the "Default View" group. To see entries from all of your friends, you would need to visit http://www.livejournal.com/users/exampleusername/friends/?filter=0. "

Go here:
http://www.livejournal.com/friends/filter.bml

Create a "Default View" group. Add everyone but me (and any other large-volume posters you want to filter) to it.
Voila. Friends page without the volume people, by default.

Create a "WeaselsAreTheGreatestOfAllMammals" group. Add me and any other, lesser high-volume posters to it.

Go here:
http://www.livejournal.com/modify.bml

And add a link on your Friends page to here:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/exampleusername/friends/WeaselsAreTheGreatestOfAllMammals

Poof! Now, your Friends page shows everyone but the high-volume people, by default, and then you have a clickable link to pop up all the high-volume people, too, on their own page. If you want no filters at all, hit the one linked above.

Comments

[thathatedguy.livejournal.com]

I have you and pope_guilty in Chatty. I may add one or two more. I also thought of making a seperate one for my communities.

[eididdy.livejournal.com]

I prefer to just shoot them.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I have a bunch of people filtered in all kinds of ways. I generally don't *use* the filters, because I spend half my day at work online and thus have time to read everything, but it's nice to know that I can cut out the comics or the news aggregates at a click.

[publius1.livejournal.com]

...at first, I thought your posting was excessive. Now I look forward to what you write. Seriously.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Cool - you don't have to filter me, then.

I've just had that speech canned for a while - I've given it to people watching me, or Ed Book (who posts 40+ times a day when he's reporting on a trip - very cool, but hard on the Friends page), or for people who want to watch a comunity like Metaquotes or Mock_The_Stupid or customers_suck but who want to still be able to use their Friends page once in a while. Putting it in my journal (and userinfo, and memories) is just something I've been meaning to do for a while.

[ryusen.livejournal.com]

yeah.. those instructions were complicated... S&W, the true point and click interface .)