state of the giant flist
Sep. 20th, 2007 01:54![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
piranhai made several filters, all for the real people (as opposed to the communities and feeds) i read. the divisions are not arbitrary, but also not done by using an instrument such as "trust" or "closeness"; they're simply determined by how i know people -- through PLATO, soc.singles{.moderated}, alt.polyamory, LJ abuse, smut reading, rasfc/writing, or the ever so originally named catchall, "other". people who'd fit in several groups i moved into the smaller one.
it's working remarkably well, much better than i would ever have thought (i used to think this was a stupid way to filter which is why i never did it; this is a desperation measure). i can now quickly move through the day's posts in almost every list, and it fits in between doing other things. no longer do i fall behind and lose track because livejournal doesn't have a good sequencer but just throws more and more new posts at me.
except the alt.polyamory filter is too large. ideally it would be about half the size, then i could get through it while having breakfast or during similar breaks. as it stands i got hung up several times and felt more and more behind again.
i don't know how to split it. the only thing i can think of is "people with whom i actually interacted a lot on alt.poly" and others, but that might make two really uneven groups, not sure. can anyone think of a better way?
the "other" group also doesn't make me quite happy. there are some people in it whom i read religiously, and other people whose LJs i added because they're interesting, but i am not always in the mood for that kind of interesting. so i probably need to split that filter as well, and maybe add the people i read religiously into one of the tiny groups, like lj abuse or plato. oy, that hurts the classification person inside. :)
it's working remarkably well, much better than i would ever have thought (i used to think this was a stupid way to filter which is why i never did it; this is a desperation measure). i can now quickly move through the day's posts in almost every list, and it fits in between doing other things. no longer do i fall behind and lose track because livejournal doesn't have a good sequencer but just throws more and more new posts at me.
except the alt.polyamory filter is too large. ideally it would be about half the size, then i could get through it while having breakfast or during similar breaks. as it stands i got hung up several times and felt more and more behind again.
i don't know how to split it. the only thing i can think of is "people with whom i actually interacted a lot on alt.poly" and others, but that might make two really uneven groups, not sure. can anyone think of a better way?
the "other" group also doesn't make me quite happy. there are some people in it whom i read religiously, and other people whose LJs i added because they're interesting, but i am not always in the mood for that kind of interesting. so i probably need to split that filter as well, and maybe add the people i read religiously into one of the tiny groups, like lj abuse or plato. oy, that hurts the classification person inside. :)