tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-13:52508 Klaatu… Verata… Necktie? (AKA Miss S B and The Yorksher Gob) miss_s_b 2017-04-22T20:42:46Z tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-13:52508:1829715 New Twitter Muting Policy 2017-04-22T20:42:46Z 2017-04-22T20:42:46Z Whatever is on radio 4 that I'm not really listening to grumpy public 14 There's an election on.<br />I tweet about politics.<br />I have over 3000 followers, and several of them RT me on occasion.<br /><br />This all means that I quite regularly attract... People who wish to engage in debate. Some of them in a less than friendly manner.<br /><br />Now, sometimes, these people are just asking a question. And sometimes, when I answer their question they say "oo, I didn't know that! Thanks!" and we both carry on our merry way after a positive interaction.<br /><br />Sometimes they are just outright hostile or insulting, and those people I mute straight away.<br /><br />Sometimes though... Sometimes they are asking a question in the hopes of trapping me, or pissing me off, or just wasting my time. So I answer their initial question, and then they say "yeah but..." and bring up something unrelated, but still opposing, or they build a straw man <small>(or a battalion of straw men)</small>, or employ any number of other tactics designed to irritate me.<br /><br />Life is <em>too damn short</em> for people like that.<br /><br />Therefore, from today, I have instituted a <b>Three Strikes and You're Out</b> policy for twitter. If you ask me a question, and you respond with "yeah but...", I'll answer. If you respond to the second answer with "yeah but..." then I will know that you are not debating in good faith, you're trying to irritate me and/or waste my time, and I will simply mute you.<br /><br />Like I said, life is too short. I confidently expect lots of "yeah but..." replies to this post, btw...<br /><br /><img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=miss_s_b&ditemid=1829715" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-13:52508:1826909 A snipping from Google Analytics 2017-04-20T09:37:01Z 2017-04-20T09:37:01Z amazed public 15 Holy shit, you guys...<br /><br /><img src="http://miss-s-b.dreamwidth.org/file/1125.png" alt="a screencap from google analytics" title="Analytics cap" /><br /><br />My regular readership is not tiny. Yesterday was... impressive.<br />Most people looked at more than one post, too.<br />And links came from EVERYWHERE: obviously, twitter was by far the biggest source of links; Lib Dem Voice, HuffPo, and fellow LDs like Zoe O'Connell and Nick Barlow were also expected, but... Mumsnet? Two different Liverpool local websites? Outpost Gallifrey? And DuckDuckGo, which implies people were searching for me...<br /><br />Genuinely kind of bowled over here.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=miss_s_b&ditemid=1826909" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-13:52508:1824009 Short note for new folks 2017-04-17T12:48:10Z 2017-04-17T12:48:10Z interview with SirLee on the City of the Dead bluray cheerful public 0 If I've subscribed to you but not given you access, don't worry. The vast vast majority of my posts are public, and f-locked posts tend to be very rare and only for people I know in real life. If I've subscribed to you, that is a pretty strong mark of my interest ;)<br /><br /><img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=miss_s_b&ditemid=1824009" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-13:52508:1822396 Three quick DW tips for LJ refugees: Things you may or may not have noticed 2017-04-15T10:30:50Z 2017-04-15T10:53:37Z helpful public 22 <ol><li>A thing I've not seen many people mention is the <a href="https://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/circle/popsubscriptions">"Popular in your circle"</a> feature. Once you've added a few people, this will tell you what is popular with your friends, and then you can <strike>reinforce your bubble</strike> find things you might have missed but that you're likely to like. <br /><b>ETA</b>: It's a paid account feature, apparently, which might explain why I've not seen many ppl mention it.</li><br /><li>I know I've mentioned this before, but <a href="https://2017revival.dreamwidth.org/2102.html">this post</a> on <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://2017revival.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png' alt='[community profile] ' width='16' height='16' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://2017revival.dreamwidth.org/'><b>2017revival</b></a></span> is an excellent resource. In fact, the whole comm is ace. Find your LJ friends, and add yourself so they can find you.</li><br /><li>The list of popular feeds that you may remember from LJ is <a href="http://www.dreamwidth.org/feeds/list">here</a>.</li></ol>Hopefully some of that is helpful :)<br /><br /><img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=miss_s_b&ditemid=1822396" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-13:52508:1819255 A Getting To Know You X-Posted from 2017revival 2017-04-08T15:48:56Z 2017-04-08T15:48:56Z sick public 2 ... which comm I fully rec to all those of you who are LJ refugees looking for familiar names :) Original post <a href="https://2017revival.dreamwidth.org/11562.html">here</a>.<br /><br /><b>Name:</b> Jennie<br /><b>Age:</b> 39<br /><b>Location:</b> Yorksher<br /><b>Tumblr/Goodreads/IG/etc:</b> I have a list of accounts in other places and how active I am on them <a href="http://miss-s-b.dreamwidth.org/1337522.html">here</a><br /><br /><b>Describe yourself in five sentences or less:</b><br />I'm an SJW cliche: Liberal in the British sense rather than the American or Australian, and reasonably high up in various bits of <a href="http://www.libdems.org.uk/">the Liberal Democrats</a> - I'm on <a href="http://www.yorkshirehumberlibdems.org.uk/">regional exec</a>, I'm the acting chair of the <a href="https://lgbt.libdems.org.uk/en/">LGBT+</a> faction, I'm on <a href="http://www.libdems.org.uk/federal_conference_committee">one of the 3 ruling committees of the party</a>, and I'm one of the 3 regular hosts of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glee_Club_(British_politics)">Glee Club</a>.<br />Autistic, depressed and anxious, and mother to an autistic and anxious daughter.<br />Bi, poly, and (mostly) happily ensconced in a poly household with an extensive polygon.<br />Geeky about all things scifi and fantasy.<br />Multicoloured hair, many tattoos, lots of piercings.<br /><br /><b>Top 5 Fandoms:</b><br />Doctor Who (except 10)<br />Red Dwarf<br />Music of most kinds but expecially things with heavy bass and/or lots of guitar.<br />Doggies, especially my doggies, but also (for example) <a href="https://twitter.com/arthurwhippet?lang=en">Arthur Whippet</a> on Twitter and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/whippyjim/">WhippyJim</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/moosethewhippet/">Moose</a> on Instagram.<br />And I suspect I ought to put British Politics here, because it basically IS a fandom, isn't it? With all the BNFs and backstabbing that implies...<br /><br /><b>I mostly post about:</b><br />Most of what you'll see on my blog day to day are my daily linkspam posts, which are links to anything I have found interesting, and are done <a href="http://miss-s-b.dreamwidth.org/1817827.html">(mostly) automatically</a>. Actually typed posts tend to be mostly politics, but really, it's whatever comes into my head to post about that's too long for twitter.<br /><br /><b>My last three posts were about:</b><br />(not counting linkspams)<br />Supergirl TV show and how ace it is<br />A local by election that my party came second in<br />Barry Manilow and the media's response to his recent news.<br /><br /><b>How often do you post? How about commenting?</b><br />Linkspam is daily. Actual posts are much more sporadic - some weeks it's several times a day, some weeks it's not at all. This is almost always a reflection of how my mental health is. The iller I am, the more I tend to drop off everything except Twitter. If I'm ever not-on-Twitter you know things are REALLY bad.<br />I almost always reply to comments on my own posts, usually quite quickly, but email is the first thing to stop checking if I'm Having a Mental, so not always.<br />I comment on other people's posts generally when I read, and I always read back after I've made a post myself. So If I'm posting a lot, you'll see an uptick in comments from me. If I'm in a non-posting phase, you'll not see any.<br /><br /><b>A GIF to describe how your day has been so far:</b><br /><img src="http://i.imgur.com/YUuM2ij.gif" alt="Stewie Griffin streaming with snot"><br /><br /><img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=miss_s_b&ditemid=1819255" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-13:52508:1817827 Automation in the age of Twitter (a howl of frustration) 2017-04-05T18:18:38Z 2017-04-05T18:21:26Z irritated public 3 You might have noticed of late that my linkspam posts are much sparser. There's a bunch of reasons for this, and they all boil down to the services I use.<br /><br />99% of the link posting I do is on Twitter. I share links and RT links a LOT. Twitter is very much an in-the-moment service, so I don't feel spammy for doing this.<br /><br />In order to get the automated links posts, I use pinboard, which scrapes twitter (and can also scrape a bunch of other services I don;t use), and then feed it through <span style='white-space: nowrap;'><a href='http://andrewducker.dreamwidth.org/profile'><img src='http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png' alt='[personal profile] ' width='17' height='17' style='vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;' /></a><a href='http://andrewducker.dreamwidth.org/'><b>andrewducker</b></a></span>'s clever <a href="https://dailylinkposter.appspot.com/#/">Daily Link Post Automater</a> which magically makes me a blog post.<br /><br />The problem is pinboard picks up everything from twitter which remotely looks linkish - so every tweet that has a picture in, every quote tweet, etc. This means that either I have to do a lot of manual editing of pinboard to prevent ENORMOUS linkspam posts containing little of interest to anybody (you'll have seen a few of those on days when I didn't wake up in time to do the manual editing), or (as is currently the case) I just don't let it pick up from twitter - so any links which I want to get fed through to my blog I have to add to pinboard manually. This isn't SO bad, because it means I think about it more, and am only genuinely adding interesting stuff, but it also means a lot of the time I can't be arsed.<br /><br />THEN we have my stuff, which I produce in various places, and it would be nice to have in the links posts.<br />Instagram, Goodreads, and this blog get their URLs collected by dlvr.it and posted to twitter. It'd be nice if that could get put into pinboard - and it was, when pinboard was collecting from twitter, but that's not happening now.<br /><br />Pinboard, of course, does not and will not collect from dlvr.it, and Andrew's daily post thing doesn't either.<br />I used to use Delicious, which did lots of the things that pinboard doesn't, but they started putting advertising links into users' feeds, which was a redline for me.<br /><br />Goodreads will autopost to Wordpress and blogger, but not to DW.<br /><br />So, you know, IN THEORY I've got the possibility of a great setup. In theory. In practise, however...<br /><br /><img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=miss_s_b&ditemid=1817827" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-13:52508:1809718 A Gentle Reminder 2017-02-04T09:10:56Z 2017-02-04T09:39:17Z amused public 0 I do not publish anonymous comments. My comment policy can be found <a href="https://miss-s-b.dreamwidth.org/1059638.html">here</a>. It's almost certainly a lot easier to put "Dave" or "Sally" at the bottom of your comment than wiffle on for two lines about your reasons for anonymity ;)<br /><br /><img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=miss_s_b&ditemid=1809718" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-13:52508:1805389 Due to interesting political situation in Soviet Russia... 2017-01-02T16:50:41Z 2017-01-02T16:50:41Z busy public 8 ... I am finally deleting all traces of myself from LJ. A ready reckoner for those uninformed about the situation can be found <a href="https://morgandawn.dreamwidth.org/1478149.html">here</a>, if you're at all interested.<br /><br />If you've had the urge to migrate here from LJ yourself, do comment below, especially if you're someone I know well. I made the move years ago, and while I do miss some aspects of LJ, there's loads that's better here, I promise.<br /><br />The other thing you'll notice is that I'm migrating stuff over which I wrote, so there's going to be a few posts in the next hour or so. Hopefully I won't swamp any RSS feeds.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=miss_s_b&ditemid=1805389" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-13:52508:1660585 Couldn't resist this #SorryNotSorry 2015-07-21T14:31:36Z 2015-07-21T18:05:23Z amused public 26 Anon is back. (S)he says: <q>it's not acceptable to say you're not publishing [my comment], and then pick out selected comments for ridicule. I'd have expected you to know better than that.</q><br /><br />* points and laughs *<br /><br />Oh dear, sweet anon, I think you'll find it's acceptable for me to do whatever I like on my own damn blog. If you don't like it, you're perfectly free to set up your own, or even adhere to <a href="http://miss-s-b.dreamwidth.org/1059638.html">my comments policy</a>, which is not exactly difficult. All it would take would be for you to click on the link I have helpfully left you on several occasions, read it, and stick to it. Given that you seem singularly incapable of doing this, while leaving repeated nasty, vituperative and passive-aggressive comments on my blog, I think it is perfectly acceptable for me to treat you like the stupid entitled arse you clearly are.<br /><br />I know you are the same person, because my blog records IP addresses. I have been <a href="http://miss-s-b.dreamwidth.org/1641229.html">politely asking</a> you to adhere to my comments policy for <a href="http://miss-s-b.dreamwidth.org/1551890.html">ten months</a> now. You steadfastly refuse to do so.<br /><br />I think I am perfectly within my rights at this point to single you, and bits of your comments, out for ridicule.<br /><br />You don't like that? You could always stop leaving nasty comments on my blog. Surely you can think of something more productive to do than leave comments which only one person is ever going to see?<br /><br />ETA: still commenting on this post. Still incapable of clicking a simple link yet magically capable of typing screeds of bollocks. Oh dear.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=miss_s_b&ditemid=1660585" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-13:52508:1641229 PSA: Anon Commenters 2015-05-29T22:40:28Z 2015-05-29T22:40:28Z annoyed public 0 While I am happy to host debate in the comments to my blog, I do have a <a href="http://miss-s-b.dreamwidth.org/1059638.html">comments policy</a> and I would be obliged if you'd all stick to it. None of it is particularly onerous, and certainly not as onerous as dealing with an anon commenter who persistently refuses to adhere to said comments policy, and who is verging on nastiness towards one of my regulars.<br /><br />I will no longer be approving any anon comments with no handle attached. And even with a handle, don't be an arse.<br /><br />Thank you.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=miss_s_b&ditemid=1641229" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments tag:dreamwidth.org,2009-04-13:52508:1551890 Just a reminder of my Comments Policy 2014-09-16T15:24:39Z 2014-09-16T15:24:39Z annoyed public 0 After a few recent comments I thought I would remind everybody of this:<ul><li>Anonymous commenting is enabled, although anon comments may be screened before publication; please, if you comment anonymously, give yourself a name. It gets very confusing talking to two anons at once.</li><li>I don't censor comments unless pushed VERY hard. Red lines include racism, misogyny, homophobia, unjoking advocation of violence, and being horrible about or to people I love.</li><li>If you want to point out cock-ups I have made, please direct them to <a href="http://miss-s-b.dreamwidth.org/726800.html">Pedants' Corner</a>; likewise if you want to ask me something off the topic of the post please go to <a href="http://miss-s-b.dreamwidth.org/727922.html">this entry</a> - this saves readers' scrolling fingers.</li></ul>There have only been TWO comments from anons who haven't identified themselves, and I've not been too stringent about it, but I don't want to be pushed.<br /><br /><img src="http://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=miss_s_b&ditemid=1551890" width="30" height="12" alt="comment count unavailable" style="vertical-align: middle;"/> comments
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