Meme

[dragon_moon]

Today ran the gamut from feeling half-sick, to feeling decent in the afternoon and then great tonight. In fact, heather and I met at Outback for dinner and it was fabulous. Our waiter was a riot, and their coco-berry drink is delicious. Mmm. I have leftover Alice Springs Chicken for lunch and life is pretty good.

The LJ news is still exploding with comments, but I don't have the energy to catch up on all the comments anymore. Things appear that they could be improving, but it could all just be talk too. Time will tell.

In the meantime, a meme created by tavalya_ra

"Interests I Don't Support" Meme
Let's try something.

According to Barak Berkowitz, CEO of Six Apart, listing something in your profile as an interest means you like or support that thing. I quote the CEO himself:

Both in the instructions for profiles and in other places on the site we make it clear that interests listed should be evaluated within the context of “I like x”, “I’m in favor of x” or “I support x”.

Well, Mr. Berkowitz, you're wrong. Interest does not mean support. In some cases, it doesn't even mean liking the thing. And prior to your statement, interest has not been interpreted to mean this. According to Mr. Berkowitz, the following statements are true of me:

I support claymores (which as we all know are gigantic killing swords)
I support lost souls.
I support harry dresden and harry potter (i.e. wizards are eeeevil)
I support werewolves.
I support vampires.

If you think this is absurd, go through your own interest list on your profile and state what Mr. Berkowitz thinks you support.

*sigh* Mine's lame, I know. I didn't even have two more to fill out the actual meme! Oh well. You get the idea. ^___^

Comments

[mojave-wolf.livejournal.com]

u *dont* support those things?

::saddened::

::cries w/disillusionment::

[dragon-moon.livejournal.com]

I think I got confused when filling it out after the first one (my interest is about the manga, not the claymore itself). lol. I was looking for stuff that some people might not approve of, and forgot the bit about not actually liking it myself. Oh well. Some days are just brain-dead days! ^___^

[flashfire.livejournal.com]

I think it's a silly meme. Even the quoted part is specifically clear that it's 'A, B or C,' not 'A, B and C.'

[dragon-moon.livejournal.com]

It's decidedly silly for me because I don't have any of the 'negative' interests. But there are plenty of people who list health issues and such that are legitimate even though they don't like them, aren't in favor of them, or remotely support them. So either LJ needs to know how people actually use the interests search, or notify people that it's for true "likes" only so they can adjust their interests form (and not get suspended).

*shrug* Some of it seems like the "friends" thing, just not-quite-right terminology being used for how a lot of people use their journals.