dj42's Journal: My first "freak"

User: Quantum Jim (610382)

How exciting! I did a brief search and it doesn't appear he replied to any of the comments I've made. Just for good measure, after looking at his journal and seeing something about controlling moderation through FOF, I decided to mark him a Foe.

I gather the premise of this system, but find it strange that people would just arbitrarily add you without mentioning it.

To those ends, I made a post into Jimmy's journal calling some song he posted stupid. We'll see how it goes.

People are weird

[nizo]

I dunno why people foe without saying why (well one guy who foed me did) but I eventually removed the few foes from my list because they were taking up valuable friend space (you can only have up to 200 foes+friends with the freebie account). I did pay for a subscription recently however so maybe I should start up a foe list again :-)

Re:People are weird

[Quantum Jim]

About once a month I defriend and defoe most accounts from my list. I keep a few if I still strongly like/dislike something (s)he did. I figure that I make mistakes and in the long run natural FOAF persistence emerges.

Why I marked you as a foe.

[Quantum Jim]

I generally don't mention the reason that I foe or befriend people, since I'm usually very busy. In fact, this post is a modification of a previously posted reply [slashdot.org]. The only reason that I checked is that your post seemed kinda odd. (Why take the time to call a foe's post stupid?) FYI, I think I foed you because of this comment on the SETI and the US government [slashdot.org]. I don't wish to argue about it, though. Eventually I'll probably unfoe you. Sorry if you took it personally!

As written under "How I use /.",

Huh

[dswensen]

Is that why you marked me as a foe too? Because as far as I know, I generally try to keep my remarks as positive and non-offensive as possible. And yet one day I have this freak.

I reciprocated, but have nothing against you or anything you've ever posted; my reasoning is, that if someone feels they need to mark me as a foe, I must have posted something so disagreeable that we'd never see eye-to-eye anyway, so I return the favor.

What's funny is that for almost the entire time this system has been in place,

Re:Huh

[dj42]

I assume you're talking to the cowboy that marked me a foe, and not me, right? I'm going to mark you a friend just for posting my journal and questioning that other guy's authoritah.

Re:Huh

[dswensen]

Yeah, that was my intent, but it looks like I clicked the wrong "reply." But thanks! I marked you as a friend as well.

And Quantum Jim un-freaked me, so it looks like it all worked out, or something.

Re:Huh

[dj42]

I've still got him "Foe'd", but incidentally, he's somehow a Friend of a Friend, as well.

Re:Huh

[dswensen]

That happens to me all the time, too.