Things That Annoy Me, But Shouldn't

The lack of a "Friend request" button or friends list in general. This "follow" feature makes me feel creepy when I think about clicking it, even though I know "friends" on a forum usually aren't all that close. Still sounds less creepy than "You are now being followed by x person/You are following x person." Shouldn't annoy me all that much, but it slightly does.

 

The first person to follow me, IIRC, was @Wreybies. I assumed that "follow" meant that he'd be getting notifications whenever I posted, and (based on my past work history, not my behavior here) I also assumed he was putting together the necessary documentation so that the eventual disciplinary action could be swift, catastrophic, and irrevocable... as my old boss put it.

 

Fet has a follow feature too. It can feel weird at times.
They also have a Love feature instead of a like button.
You have to hit L to love things, that to me is weird when
I just want to like it.

 

When I'm writing and pause at an awkward moment. I imagine my characters and world all freezing with everyone looking at each other with their eyes widened.

"When he finally gets back...I'll be able to stop bending down...pray for our sadistic creator to return soon."

 

The only notifications the forum is currently set to deploy when you "follow" someone is when they post a blog. I'm sure other switches could be flipped to make the function report other things, but right now that's the only thing following makes happen.

I follow people because they interest me. Interest is a coin with two opposing sides.

 

Oh great, compounded weekly no doubt. How much do I owe?

 

Same here, if I find them interesting I follow them.

For some reason, I read that as a Pharmacy Magazine dedicated to Compounding Pharmacies, Man am I a dork... LOL.

 

So... is it good or bad if you're not following someone?

 

I tend to not follow people unless they follow me first, but it's not because I don't find them interesting it's literally because I always forget that it's even a thing.

 

It typically means that you're square in the books. Our forum gets between 8 and 9 thousand unique hits in any 3 month period. That's individual registered members active within a 90 day stretch. That's more members than the average forum ever sees registered across the entire life of the given forum. That's a lot of people. Most members in our forum come, engage, use the forum for what its for, and they never come into contact with me because there's no real need. That's not a bad thing. It just means they're engaging the purpose of the venue in a way that doesn't cause ripples, and I'm just a person in the real 3D world with a real flesh-life, not an A.I. living here in the software. I only have so much time on my hands, and that time (as regards the forum) is often already spoken for, long before I sign on, as the citizenry requires I take care of its often opaque complaints. *shrug*

 

Var Followed_Person As String, Post As Binary, Like_Count As Integer

Followed_Person = Someone {with} Pretty Avatar Pics
if Followed_Person post = true AND post IsLiked And IsLiked Count > 4 then
Shout {via email} "beauty & brains is proving popular at the moment—you may wanna take a peep" @SethLoki cc. @Pervy Dave in accounts
endif

//no debugging @resident developers!

 

Segmentation fault.

 

Back on topic:

When I’m waiting at a pelican crossing, having already pressed the button to stop the traffic, and someone else comes along and presses the button.

Did you think I hadn’t already pressed the button? Do you think I don’t know how a fucking crossing works? Bitch please, don’t insult my intelligence by presuming that it hadn’t occurred to me to press the button, and would have been puzzling over the relentless flow traffic had you not gallantly swooped in and revealed the mysteries of the crossing.

 

Me too. After reading your post, @Trish I followed some people in return. LOL

I know, right? I'm always afraid of creeping someone out so I rarely initiate follows. But now that we've had this conversation, I'm going to follow you, @Moon , because you make me smile. Hope it doesn't creep you out.

 

[Follows @big soft moose .]

 

Damn straight!

 

[Furrows brow, peers down shirt] Sorry, Moose. Definitely hero worship. ETA: Although if you keep writing that dreck, that'll be out the window too... ETA: Faileena is no mentor, Son.

 

The fucking gerries though, you never know, so I always push the button just to be safe. About a third of the time they look at me like I'm some sort of magic traffic light wizard. How the fuck you survive 70-80 years on this rock without learning how to operate basic civic tech...

 

Older (than me) people complaining about how much less things used to cost. Yes mom, a gallon of gas used to cost twenty-five cents, but the car you were putting it into only got eight miles to that same gallon, and the minimum wage was only a dollar an hour and all the money in the world couldn't have bought the storage I've got on this here pinky-nail-sized micro SD card, let alone a device that could read it.

I'll be doing the same thing soon though, so...