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

[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.