19 of 30 - Pranktime

[aggienaut]

   Okay it's Friday evening, and who are we kidding, no one is going to be on livejournal until AFTER all the scandalous entries of Friday night happenings have occurred. Either that or you're going to be playing nethack all night until you're delirious (lord knows that's what I'D be doing if I wasn't so keen on showing off my beer :D )


   The weekend is always the doldrums of livejournal. No one updates (which is weird because the lazy morning hours of Sat and Sun what else are you going to do? Why aren't the rest of you telling your scandalous entries of Friday/Saturday night happenings??), and if you update, no one will comment. (well there's actually a window around noon on Sat morning). So it's best not to waste an entry on a weekend. But.... then 30 in 30 comes along and hey I don't make the rules...

   And so I'm left with a particularly difficult dilemma. I want to make an entry that's interesting enough to qualify as worth reading (I think I may have accomplished that once...), but I don't want to waste an idea I regard as really good to the hopeless morass that is the blogosphere on weekends. So I find myself trying to dial in to a very very specific window of good enough to post but only barely.

   Two solutions I've though of other than writing purposefully crummy entries:
   (a) guest entries! that was fun no? nice change of pace for the weekend. I have the legendary shid (from 30 in 30 II or some such ancient times) lined up for one at some point. Any other volunteers welcome.
   (b) rehabilitate entries from more than ancient times that were already posted in this LJ. Being as some 300 or so of you are new to this lj this year (: I have plenty of entries that would be new to you if reposted... I mean, don't you want to know which US President had a dog named Sweet Lips? Or read my entry about experimenting with controlling substances? ;D


   Anyway, for now I'm whipping out a simple little story of a prank I pulled yesterday, with photographic evidence:

Behind those beehives is actually a door. The only door to a room in which my coworker Jeremy was at the time bottling honey.

...bastard denied me satisfaction by acting completely nonchalant when he opened the door to find a wall. ):!


Earthquake!!!
   In other news, while I was writing this I experienced an earthquake!!! Typical.

Comments

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

I'm curious why all those people that you think aren't reading or commenting on your livejournal don't catch up with it later. That's what I do. What, you think people say, "Oh, now it's Tuesday, I guess I'll read Tuesday's livejournal. But I'm not going to waste my time reading last Friday's stuff." If it's boring now, it'll be boring next tuesday. If it's exciting now, it'll still be pretty much exciting next Tuesday. Not that I'm reading anything that exciting on anybody's livejournal. Oh, except for the stacked beehives in front of the door thing. That was exciting, I gotta admit.

Explaining the Data

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Well it IS a fact that entries posted on weekends get fewer comments, the question is why. And any attempt to explain it is just speculation.

My theory is that while people might go back, they're possibly less likely to comment on entries that are further back, after fulfilling their urge to comment on the first few entries (this might also explain why, while more people update in the evening, entries made in the morning get many more comments). Really I don't know, but I do know there's a noticeable lack of comments.

(this even keeping in mind that it's possible I just POST more boring entries on weekends. I'm pretty sure I've posted equally boring entries at the respective times and gotten a lot more comments weekday mornings)

Re: Explaining the Data

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Hmmm.... inviting comment on how boring your posts are? ...maybe you should stay away form that topic.

Re: Explaining the Data

[onda-bianca.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a pretty thorough analysis of comments!

Re: Explaining the Data

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

:D

[awdrey-gore.livejournal.com]

There is nothing worse than going through all that trouble with a prank and the victim not even having the decency to react well.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Seriously. I thought it was not very sporting of him. Especially since HE is always playing pranks on people!

[nefariousvirus.livejournal.com]

Yeah I noticed that with weekend entries :/

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Yeah it seems people predominantly DO LJ only when they have better things they SHOULD be doing. I don't know where all these people work but I've always avoided lj at work because (A) I don't have time; and (B) I don't want people at work to find out I'm on lj!

[qweenkaren.livejournal.com]

I think the number of comments is inversely proportional to the number of distractions. Mostly I read at work, where there are less distractions than life at home or my social life.

Hence: it's harder.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Yeah that seems to be what most people do. I think the best time of all for comments seems to be during the lunch hour.

[xo-kizzy-xo.livejournal.com]

And dont' forget, too, that when summertime comes around, LJ participation drops off the cliff because everyone's outside. Or, in the case of a good portion of my FL (including myself), deliberately not spending all their time online.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

"Outside" eh? Tell me about this alleged "outside." :D

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Somehow I've managed to miss all these jobs where people have nothing better to do than LJ. /:

[heethen-crone.livejournal.com]

If you'd pulled that prank on me, you'd have been suitably rewarded with screaming. LOL What a bastard, all that work you went to and no response?

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I thought it was not very sporting of him. ESPECIALLY since he is always playing pranks on people himself!

The weekend is always the doldrums of livejournal.

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Livejournal: Powered by Procrastination!

Re: The weekend is always the doldrums of livejournal.

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

So true.

Re: The weekend is always the doldrums of livejournal.

[furzicle.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think how much people post is a testament to how exciting their lives are--in an inverse way.

[extoria.livejournal.com]

::shudder:: the claustrophobe in me just had a panic attack. lol!