damn_registrars's Journal: Neglected Slashdot Feature: Message when friend posts JE

It seems that some people might not be familiar with this function, so I thought I'd mention it as I find it useful. Slashdot can send you a message when someone on your friends list posts a Journal Entry (JE). This feature is under "Message" in the "User Preferences" settings. If slashdot renders as oddly in your browser as it does in mine, you now get to User Preferences by clicking the icon that looks like a 6-toothed gear that should be near your name in a small panel on the front page. Then once that is open, find the "Messages" settings (in my case it is the last link on the right). Scroll about half-way down until you see Journal Entry by Friend. In there, you'll see several options

• No Messages
• E-Mail
• Web
• AIM
• REST API

I find the Web option to be the most useful myself, by YMMV.

Oh bla bla bla!

[fustakrakich]

What is there that compels your to respond, eh?

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[damn_registrars]

What is there that compels your to respond, eh?

If you are referring specifically to JEs from the two who are busy talking about me in one of their own JEs, I find one of the two authors to be quite amusing, and the other author to be an unfortunate bellwether of the current state of partisanship.

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[fustakrakich]

So? Then it is Pavlovian...

oh dear

[Captain Splendid]

I see what you're trying to do here, but I'm pretty sure the problem is lack of people actually creating/participating in JEs than knowing how to properly publicize them and share them.

In other words, either you or Stoolpigeon will be the one turning the lights off.

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[damn_registrars]

Actually, this JE was a response to my friend's amusing accusation of "stalking" [slashdot.org].

In other words, either you or Stoolpigeon will be the one turning the lights off.

I call not it. I have no investment in this site - well, beyond my $5 subscription - so I don't want to be left liable for cleaning up the mess when it finally folds for real.