Hmm.

[schmevil]

Do you think it's disgustingly petty to be tempted to remove a user from your flist, based on the fact s/he admires someone you think is an unspeakable moron and a hateful little insect in need of immediate vivisection?

I'm tempted.

Comments

[tinderblast.livejournal.com]

Like when you see that someone esteems Anne Rice and you just blanch? It's petty, but understandable.

*wonders, egotistically, if you mean me, which would be pretty amusing*

-brodie

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

Like when you see that someone esteems Anne Rice and you just blanch? It's petty, but understandable.

God yes. I've ended friendships over bad literary taste - I just lose all faith in their intellect. *shudders*

It's not you but that would be snicker-worthy.

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

btw: love the icon.

[aelita.livejournal.com]

Of course it's petty! it didn't stop me from refusing to friend someone who had an icon of someone I despise

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

Oh, me too. I removed someone from my flist for overuse of the colour red in her posts. I removed someone for poor spelling. I removed someone for using annoying slang.

Increasingly petty with each passing month. *revels*

[oktober-ghost.livejournal.com]

Definitely petty but also your perogative (at least we do retain our petty freedoms).

I suppose I should feel fortunate since I don't know who/what the fuck loads of icons are/mean. Ignorance is bliss.

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

Sadly I can figure out most icons. It's a sign of how much time I'm wasting in fandom. ^_-

[taricorim.livejournal.com]

Petty is it me?, but when does that ever stop anyone?

*tries to list the people she admires*

[thornsilver]

Sure it's petty. Isn't LJ about petty?

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

Yes, which is why I posted this in the first place, of course.

Is it Bush?

[vulgarweed.livejournal.com]

IF so, you're more than justified.

(Don't know why I jumped to that conclusion. Maybe it's because whenever anybody says "an unspeakable moron and a hateful little insect in need of immediate vivisection" that's the first person who comes to mind.)

Re: Is it Bush?

[tinderblast.livejournal.com]

*tries to imagine anyone 'admiring' Bush, fails*

[boniblithe.livejournal.com]

Hell no. I do it all the time.

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

Love your icon.

I do it more often than I should. I find I miss out on things because I'm so easily annoyed. ;)

[niqaeli]

Hell, no. It's only good sense.

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

But this is fandom. Sense has no place here. *points at your icon*

[lasultrix.livejournal.com]

WAH IT'S ME ISN'T IT WAH!

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

It like, totally is. You SuX0rs and your little flist too.

(*shakes head* I can't even get a single line of plebe-slang right. Woe.)

[katshakespeare.livejournal.com]

Petty, sure, but it's up to you. I would. And I have.

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

Naughty!Kat. *spanks your wrist*

[acadine.livejournal.com]

OH NO IT IS ME *SOBS* ANGEST PANE HORRER.

I'd say the petty depends on how loud, drooling, and frothy-fangirly they're being about the admiring.

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

I'm noting those mispellings down for future use.

It's not all that loud, but even the most casual mention of this person has me breaking out in mental hives. I just want to track him/her down and claw out his/her eyes.

[tanzy.livejournal.com]

Who cares if it's petty? It's goddamn annoying to see someone fawning over a person you dislike every day on your friends list. ;D

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

Hell yeah.

Hell yeah.

Somehow I knew I could count on you to get to the meat of the issue. *cough*

[kay-taylor.livejournal.com]

Hey, that's what filters are for. Effective defriending without the politics.

Also, it creates a lovely 'LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU' effect. Like being six again.

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

Ha! That's actually a good idea, especially if I could somehow leak out the shape of my filters... Of course that would kind of defeat the purpose of eliminating the politics. *g*

[faith-accompli.livejournal.com]

Yes, MHC. It's revoltingly petty, shame on you!

But do it. It's your list, innit?

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

Oh the unbearable guilt.

*prepares to drop person*

[aylapascal.livejournal.com]

Er, it isn't me is it? Anyway, petty as it may be, it is still your choice.

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

No, it's not you.

[endofhistory.livejournal.com]

You will be a saner person for defriending them. Trust me, I had the ultimate CC fangirl friended and she drove me nuts. So I finally defriended it.

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

I don't think I have any CC fangirls on my flist, though I do have some friends of hers. That doesn't particularly bother me. There is however, a person in fandom whose very name makes me want to stab out my eyes. Someone on my flist likes her. Talks about her. Eugh.

[reposoir.livejournal.com]

No.

There are some people on my list I'm also tempted to get rid of for the same reason.

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

Doooo it. We can be not-petty together.

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

Nope. It might be petty to do it... although I often keep a mental note of 'transgressions', and use that as an eventually excuse for a prune.

[schmevil.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I don't think I've done that before, keep a list, I mean. Generally I just have a nagging feeling of badness and my itchy finger deflists before I notice it.