Journal danharan's Journal: Why I might be your friend 2
If I'm you're fan, I probably don't know you, but I read a post of yours that seemed good enough that I wanted to see your next posts.
Someone posted the idea in their sig, I thought it was a good idea although I can't remember who it was.
After 2 weeks of using this strategy, I have started noticing some patterns. My "friends" continue to post interesting comments- it wasn't just a fluke. Their friends generally post interesting comments too, thought that's more hit-and-miss.
Overall, it works, and I would like more of my friends to do the same, so I can read more interesting stuff (what their friends write) and less predictable stuff like M$ bashing. I know they're evil already, let's improve the signal/noise ratio.
If more people used such a strategy the trolls would hardly ever get read, which is fine by me.
Kudos to whoever put in these features.
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Hi there...
I noticed you in my fan list and popped over to read your journal. Adding interesting posters as friends sounds like a good strategy to me, and I certainly don't mind having another name in the Fan column. :)
I wouldn't take offense to having people pop up in my Freak list too--my sense is that, here on /., most people add someone as a foe not as a criticism but as a compliment--someone who you don't agree with a lot, but who is interesting to read and debate nonetheless. (What else could it