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There's a post out there today of a "friend" (not someone I actually know that well) who has been out of touch with LJ.

He's asking for updates because, "If there's something you've been assuming I know because you wrote about it on LJ and in the past I've reliably read your LJ, you might want to point it out to me. Alternately, you can just regard me as the retard in the corner who never knows what's going on."

I find this metaphor infuriating and offensive, although I know that as with most such things he means nothing by it. What's the best response? Ignore? Post something publicly in comments? Send a private email? Write an LJ post of my own about how offensive I find it and hope someone reads it?

What do you think?

Edit - I posted what I hope was both a polite and firm comment.

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From:

lakeboy-55.livejournal.com

Grrrr..., that's yet another instance of my posting a comment and having it end up being "anonymous without my intent. Why does it do this in some posts and not others. It's driving me crazy! In some posts I have to enter my username and password, and type in the pictures words to leave a comment, even though I am logged in. What's up with that? It never used to do this. Sorry for the rant.

Just to make it clear, the "anonymous" comment was from me, Lakyboy_55.

From:

neogrammarian.livejournal.com

lj's been playing w/me that way the past week or so as well, fwiw.

From:

guppiecat

LJ stores your login credentials in a cookie. If you change computers, have your browser set to delete cookies or (as has been happening lately), LJ changes servers on their end, you have to re-login.

You can mitigate this to some extent by clicking the "remember me" checkbox when you login, but really, it's best to look at the login box whenever you first hit your friends page.

From:

lakeboy-55.livejournal.com

Hmmm, thanks, but there doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to when it happens, and it just started happening within the last month or so. I've been using LJ for about 5 years, and it never happened to me before. Well, just another of those irritating little bits of life to feal with.

From:

guppiecat

LJ moved servers in the last month or so. That's when I noticed the problem had gotten much worse. For me, it's been better in the last week, but then I have a paid account, so I'm likely using a different set of servers than some.