the comment meme

[kip_w]

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I've been seeing the meme about how many comments different users have put on my LJ. It lays it all out in graphic form. I went and deciphered the cryptic instructions and got the results and pasted them here, and you know what? They were too bleeding depressing. I've made over 300 more comments in my own LJ than the next person in line. Some of my best friends turn out to have only found me worthy of comment once or twice in over a year of posting here. The evidence indicates I am of interest to very few, and not very much of that. I'm not so sure any more that this is the best use of my time.

I must think about this.
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Comments

[alces2.livejournal.com]

I read your LJ. I enjoy it. I would miss it. I don't make enough comments but sometimes I just think, gee, this is great, there's no way I can add anything that would make it better. ;<)

Actually they need a counter for the number of times your lj is viewed (maybe they already have that) and possibly they need a little button that people can click that says, I read this, I enjoyed it but I have no comments. I probably get fewer comments than you do but there are other reasons I do it, including it's a tad therapeutic (it could be more therapeutic but then I would surely get myself in trouble.) and sometimes it is a good place to go back and see, oh yeah, I did that on such and such date. I need to add more tags though. Also I actually talk more on-line and via emails than I do in person.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

Yeah, a counter... well, I'd probably find a way to feel bad about that too, but it's still a good idea.

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

I have an only moderately successful experiment in which I made small pics, sort of like icons, bigger but mostly under 35K. The idea was to use them for RAEBNC, so I could do a short reply but make it more clever or amusing. I still don't manage to get myself to USE them regularly.....

Richard made me this one:

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

If you have Photoshop access, you can make pictures really, really teeny for the web. "Groktor," for instance, comes in just under 5k on the setting I used most recently, and could probably go even smaller. (It's the "Save for Web" option in the File menu.)

[neonnurse.livejournal.com]

I have PaintShopPro 7, but I don't know how to make it do much, as I don't find it a very intuitive program. Is that some kind of compression algorithm, where the size stays the same but the data gets sorted or something so there's not so much of it?

I kind of like the larger physical size, because I can barely read some of the icons people have made with clever sayings on them. And some I can't read at all!