Livejournal Flags

[dotinthesky]

There is one feature missing from Livejournal which I think would be very welcome: flags.

This would solve the problem I have at the moment: being unable to keep up with everyone's journals. I wanted to have loads of LJ friends, my wish was granted, and now I face the daily dilemma of choosing who I should read.

If there were flags, people could choose their posts' level of importance. Then, on a busy day, I could read my filter for "important posts". On other days, when I had more time, I could read the more average stuff.

Right now, I have to scroll back through various pages, scanning hundreds of posts in order to see if I'm missing anything, not really enjoying this thing anymore! I want to get back to enjoying Livejournal, but also spending less time here without feeling guilty I'm forgetting someone's birthday, etc.

Comments

[canudiglett]

Only trouble is that some people would think that all their posts were terribly important and flag them thus. And other people would be modest and say "Oh, don't mind me, I've only grown a second head and been selected to play football for England".

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

It would be helpful in letting users know who are the Drama Queens in their friends list, who are the modest ones, etc. Could be a new way to gain insight into people's minds.

[canudiglett]

I would probably be guilty of over rating my posts. I already try not to post things if they aren't at least vaguely important, and I'm sure some people could pick out recent posts of mine that they don't consider important in the slightest.

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

What I mean by important are posts which refer to jobs, pregnancies, deaths, etc. Those are the kind of posts to cause most offence if you miss them.

[canudiglett]

In that case, NONE of my posts are important!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

Doesn't mean you wouldn't be read -- you do have, after all, a really entertaining journal. :-)

Having a type of flag system would help in the sense of checking, when first logging in, whether anything "major" has happened before moving on to the business of reading people's journals.

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Knowing me, though, I'd probably only flag the entries that said "Hey! One of my stories is out! Go read it!" :)

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

And that would be cool! That would be genuine news for your friends, so a flag on that kind of post would be welcome. :-)