Fic Rec, recipe request, comments

[neadods]

Fic rec: The title says it all: Sullivan and Jones, Medical Mysteries Our Specialty Rated R, so don't read at work.

Recipe Request: I succumbed and bought a half-pound of smoked pork neck at the Amish market and now don't have the faintest idea what in heck to do with it. Please post your favorite corn chowder or baked potato soup recipes.

I see that LJ has added little orange flags so that trolls who want to make trouble can click on posts for being "offensive." Countdown to this being used to harass the other side in a fan war in 5... 4... 3...

And yet, based on a Post article today, 6Apart is still doing better than FaceBook or MySpace, which have decided to turn all their members into unpaid endorsers by flashing up news announcements of everything else they're doing/seeing/buying on the web. One guy's Christmas surprise wasn't much anymore when right after he bought a ring, FaceBook told all his readers exactly what he had bought and where. (And we won't even go into what it probably did to his marriage when his wife asked him why he was buying jewelry and he was all "what jewelry?")

THAT is seriously friggin' creepy!

Comments

[neadods.livejournal.com]

Such a tiny little flag is going to cause so much wank

I'm sure that vigilante group is already going through Pornish Pixies and clicking on every post.

[fyrdrakken]

There was a discussion in another friend's post on the flagging function in which someone was suggesting going hogwild with the flagger to clog up the moderation queue with ridiculous complaints, and someone else raised the hope that the Moral Majority idiots might save us the trouble of doing so. Given that it was also pointed out that people who make a lot of unjustified flags are going to have their own flags no longer counted towards the quota for sending a thing to the moderation queue, I think it's a good thing if they shoot themselves in the feet straight off.

[--kali--.livejournal.com]

The FAQs for it are rubbish too. I'm going to have to submit a support request because as a mod, I have a ton of queries.

[neadods.livejournal.com]

I have been seriously amused by the number of people who are protesting by flagging the announcement post as offensive. If that doesn't make the point, nothing will!