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Journal pythorlh's Journal: Fostering an Open Mind in the Zoo 9

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I don't read the front page much anymore. I only seem to find the time to read my messages, 90% of which are notices of journals written by someone on my friends list. And at that, I don't choose people on my friends list for agreeing with me. So I don't really have much need to fear that I'm listening to my own private echo chamber, but sometimes I do. So, in an attempt to broaden my horizons, I decided to take a look at some of the people I don't hear from much here on /..

Take a look at this link: http://slashdot.org/my/friends/foes/

That link will bring you a nice list (whitch may be exceptionally long) of anyone that your friends have listed as a foe. My preferences are set to give these people a slight negative modifier, and I browse at +2, so I miss a lot of their posts.

So, I took a look through the list, and read every journal posted in the month of November (including some written in November of last year.) Anyone who was remotely interesting got friended. I did al this yesterday, and I've already read two interesting journals that I would have never found otherwise.

So... opinions? Wild attacks? Try it for yourself.

P.S. http://slashdot.org/my/friends/friends/ works too, which will give you a list of people that you might find likable, but haven't friended yet. And for your stalking amusement, http://slashdot.org/~username/friends/friends (substitute any username after the ~) can be fun, too. Warning, though, all of these lists can be very large.

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  • As I couldn't figure it out- but I found your journal very interesting as well, and wrote a JE on it yesterday. You might want to read it- I think you exhibit some characteristics of the classic Asperger's Coder- and your cow-orker who can't seem to say hi in the hallway exhibits *many* of the signs of being such a person.

    So hit my journal- and tell me what you think.
    • I already have, and in fact, yours was one of the interesting journals I mentioned above. I don't really think I have Asperger's. But I do have Attention Deficit Disorder. I really do need to get back and talk to my doctor, though. Rest assured that i will continue to read your journal, but I apologise in advance because I don't reply very often.
      • ADD is on the "Autistics and Cousins" spectrum as well.

        No need to promise to read my journal- just that entry was prompted by YOUR journal so I thought I'd point you to it. Mine gets rather strange at times- I'm a real political and economic centerist and populist, which means that all the extremeists hate me and think that I'm an extremeist on the opposite side from wherever they happen to be.
        • i don't think he has asperger's at all. I am of course exhibiting the same public-assessment nonsense that you're pulling, but i've got to say, it sounds a lot more like you,- pythor- have your issues pretty well in hand, know what they are at least, and that it's a pretty standard set.

          The attention issue, though, that's way for real, you also seem to know the ins and outs of that pretty well. Let us know how that goes.

          Marxist, you write interesting things sometimes. I read them, too. Not everytime, but som
  • One of my favourite ways of expanding my friends list (I generally only friend people if I find their journal entries worth reading - I don't use modifiers at all) is to ocassionaly browse all the journals [slashdot.org]. You will sometimes spot new journallers who no-one in your friends/foes lists has seen yet...
    • That's true, and I thank you for the link. I had assumed there was some method for getting that list, but never took the time to find it.

      On the other hand, I was specifically looking for opinions that I might not like, but that are interesting anyway. In fact, I think the whole idea was triggered by kesuki.

      I friended kesuki at one point for being interesting. Within a couple weeks, kesuki ended up treating another slashdotter very poorly, and I de-friended him. I recently noticed a post by him and won

    • I've had several replies to my journal due to that link :-P I guess I post when others get bored.
  • I have two friends who have mutually foed each other, but who are also both friends with other firends. So, they have lots of little multicolored bubbles after their names. Friend, Fan, Friend of Friend and Foe of Friend. Clearly, they both dislike each other's views, but I find them both to be articulate and insightful, even if I don't agree with everything they say.
    • I have a few like this myself - friends on my list who have foed each other. It likely comes of having friends with both staunchly conservative and rabidly liberal views. As long as we don't take personally a difference of opinion, it is quite enlightening to be able to hear and understand where others are coming from.

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