Planning my first poll.

[randomness]

I have some questions for my friends list with regard to breaking my food listings out from the other posts. But before I post the poll, I have a general question about blogging options.

I've come up with some options for segmenting my blogging, and I'm wondering if I've forgotten any.

--leave things as they were before I stopped food blogging, with the posts mixed in with all my other posts
--tag the food posts, and potentially, all my posts
--lj-cut the food posts, with a short description as the cut tag
--start an opt-out food filter
--start an opt-in food filter
--start a separate LJ for food postings
--start a separate blog, on another blogging site, for food postings, potentially syndicated back to LJ
--continue my self-imposed suspension of food listings

Please help by commenting on options I may have forgotten.

Comments

[agrimony.livejournal.com]

Tags could help, so could LJ-cuts, or an opt-in filter. I liked the food posts. :)

[frotz.livejournal.com]

Does tagging belong in the list? Are there actually methods of reading livejournal which make it possible to filter on such things?

It would help to understand the problem you're trying to solve. What exactly was wrong with the old way? How has the new way helped or hurt?

[ladybird97.livejournal.com]

I liked the food postings, and would be happy to read more if you start doing them again!

If they're long, I'd prefer LJ-cuts, but I at least don't feel like you really need to separate them from the rest of your blogging that much.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

Are there actually methods of reading livejournal which make it possible to filter on such things?

Dunno. I'm trying to be complete.

Some people thought the food posts were long and distracting. The new way has no food posts, which certainly fixes that problem, but introduces others. :)

[and-be-blue.livejournal.com]

Another option could be a food 'community' where not only you but other people could also post about their favorite restaurants and whatnot, and then people could chose to be a part of it or not - and you wouldn't have to log in and out of this journal when you want to post about food.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

No, that's a good idea. It was going to be a multiple question poll.

[r-ness.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought of that!

(I still need to think about whether I want to take on the job of moderating such a community, but it's a good idea for the poll.)

[donnad.livejournal.com]

I like the food posts, But Lj-Cutting them would be nice.

The way I look at it is if I don't want to readit or feel like it at that time, I can always scroll past and come back later when I feel like it.

Lj cuts are good for the long ones or ones with photos.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

Really, I'd say --tag the food posts, and potentially, all my posts
and leave it there.

2nd choice: --start a separate LJ for food postings

3rd: --start a separate blog, on another blogging site, for food postings, potentially syndicated back to LJ
(but the syndication back here is vital. I don't read sites I can't aggregate through LJ, lame as that may be.)

If you filter them, you make them friends-only.
If you cut them, they're more of a pain to click through.

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

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The food posts were fabulous and I miss them.

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

Mix all the posts, please.

[(Anonymous)]

You could also adopt a multiple options approach. Create a new account r_ness_food and a new account r_ness_notfood, and then post the food posts to both r_ness and r_ness_food and the non-food posts to r_ness_notfood. This makes it very easy for people to get the right posts on their friends list.

However... it's not clear to me that you can automate this, so it makes posting a big pain. And it can screw up your efforts to read people's friends-locked post (if you're logged in to the wrong account). So mostly I think this is an inferior version of the separate LJ for food; presumably you would read others LJs logged in as r_ness, and they could subscribe to r_ness_food as they see fit, without screwing up your reading, and there's no need to double post things. (It does have the mild annoyance of having to log out and back in to switch accounts, but that's not too bad.)

--Adam

[emilymorgan.livejournal.com]

FOOD. FOOD FOOD FOOD.

[cathyr19355.livejournal.com]

I think you should leave things as they are. I like your food postings.

[dianec42.livejournal.com]

So that would be a "no" on being able to read everything BUT a particular tag?

(I don't mind skipping stuff; I'm just being difficult.)

[amarysta.livejournal.com]

i'm good with a mix, but tags would be nice too

[jbsegal.livejournal.com]

I interpreted "possible to filter on such things" as "provide a way to find them" rather than "find a way to avoid them".

The LJ coders are geeks. there's got to be some way to filter OUT by tag. :)

[the-rookery.livejournal.com]

Please make it easy for those of us who like to read the food posts but don't want to work too hard to get them (yep, I'm a lazy foodie). So I would say keep as was, lj-cut or filter (in which case count me in), with a preference for lj-cuts. Whatever you do, bring back the food stuff!!!