Cadbury's Creme Egg - how do you eat yours?

[pez]

This is purely out of interest, and randomness.

How do you read your flist?

Me, at least once a day I would scroll down until I see the last entry I've read before, and then scroll down a bit more... probably a day's worth or so, and see if there are new comments to those entries, if there are marked edits/changes to them, and read the comments depending on what post it was. Once I've done that I go back up to read the recent ones until I reach the newest entry.

But I don't think that's how other people read it... seems like some friends read from the top ie the most recent one, and they don't bother checking for edits and comments? Probably depends on how large your friends list is, I suppose...

Comments

[thirdshade.livejournal.com]

I read under a filter of journals I'm interested in (because I also have loads of people I've only friended to give them reading acess, but their LJs bore me). From top to bottom, so sometimes I see posts about the previous post, which I haven't even read yet. Never check back on edits or comments unless it's a thread of comments that really really catches my eye. Even so, I may end up forgetting to check back. ^^;

[mirichan.livejournal.com]

Somewhat similar.

I start by going down to the last entry I remember reading... Usually, depending on the time I have I either go lower down and check back on some of the entries I was interested in (to see what else has been discussed BUT not really for edit in the original post itself UNLESS it's obvious. I rarely look at the entry itself... it's the comments I'm interested in).

If I don't have time... I just go down to the last entry I read then start reading my Flist new entries... from bottom to top. I never read top to bottom...

[ina]

I read the newest ones first and read from top to bottom till I come to the one I read before. Then I go down more to read new comments or just specifi journals for more comments.
Sometimes I comment before I have catched up with all the old ones, but that is very seldom. Mostly I do that when I go up again.
Strange method, I know.

[moffit.livejournal.com]

I do it the second way, just going to where I last read an entry before moving on to something else.

[shallowesque.livejournal.com]

I read almost the same way you do, although I only go back if I know there was something really interesting a bit back that I'd like to see the comments on. Mostly I keep interesting entries in tabs (I usually end up with a good 15, 20 tabs open after a while ._.) so I can check them when I remember.

That, and I skim a lot. Too much stuff on comms and such that I'm not interested in ^^:

[scribblemoose]

I'd love to do it your way, but I just don't have time. I have two filters I check every day, one of which I check morning, lunchtime and evening, the other probably less unless I've more time. The third filter I check weekly at the weekend when I can and skim-read - they're mostly people who've friended me but whom I don't know (i.e. they've never commented or emailed me or anything).

If there's an entry on either of my 'main' filters that is of particular interest I'll bookmark it to go back and re-read later for comments.

And all that takes me far more time than I really have! But it's fun. And a great way of keeping in touch... even if don't comment as much as I should.

[lina-lau.livejournal.com]

I read randomly and spastically whenever I have time, so I just scroll from the very latest comments down, and go back until I get to the last entry that I had stopped at before. :/ (But sometimes, I run out of time, so never actually get to finish reading all posts XD;) Though, I never go back to posts before, unless they're really interesting, and I wanted to see what other comments had been left, etc, but even if I do intend to, I mostly end up forgetting. XD;

I don't tend to use filters and stuff, but I do have a filter of only people with no communities, and I tend to check that one, if I have no time, and then go back to the communities filter later, if I find the time. Especially when I've not been on for a while, maybe a few days, my flist gets too unmanagable, and I don't have the time to read back, so I tend to go through peopel's journals whom I want to read about one by one then, which speeds up the process a little. XD

[sharona1x2.livejournal.com]

I have my PC on all the time, so I always have my LJ window open. When I get up in the morning, I look at the last entry posted before I went to bed, then I refresh my screen. I read back until I get to that last entry. I sometimes go back further, if I have time or if a specific post had me interested.

During the day, I keep up pretty much the same way, always going back to at least the last entry I saw posted.

I do have a couple filters to help me keep up with things. I have one for GW writers, one for other fandom writers, and one for comms. It's just something I do to make finding fic posts easier.

[farohji.livejournal.com]

i tend to always have my flist opened, so i just hit refreash in the morning and scroll to the last post i read the night before and work my way forwards. i scroll back during the day and see if there are new comments on stuff i care about, but that's about it.

i try and read the entries of people i actually care about, usually by throwing them into new windows and reading later. i skim alot of community posts and posts of people who friended me, but i don't care about their posts.

[verily.livejournal.com]

Depending on where I am and what mood I'm in, but for the most part, I scan through the beginning, and if something sticks out, I'll read that first though, and work my way back to the last entry that I read. Then I go back and re-read all those entries I've skipped in more detail and comment as well. ^^;; And I wish I knew how fliters work cause that would save me a lot more time, but I don't.

[tokkitsu.livejournal.com]

I usually read from top to bottom, and then back up again to make sure I haven't missed anything. Being that I usually check late, late at night, I usually do. So yup.

[ex-tremble707.livejournal.com]

I read my flist the same way, except that's probably going to change when I finish this filter list XD ♥

[chinawolf.livejournal.com]

If I have unlimited time, I start reading the whole flist from the newest entry backwards. I skip lots and lots of entries, though - many communities do not even get a glace unless a word (like 'nc17') catches my eye. I read a bit backwards when I have reached the last already read entry, but not very far - 133 friends plus 46 communities make for long skips if I've been sleeping for longer than six hours. I open every cut that I want to read in a new window, and I open every entry I want to comment on in a new tab. It varies whether I read/comment on them immediately or go through the flist first and then go through the tabs.

If I have limited time, I go through my 'core' group, which excludes many communities and includes only people that I usually at least glance over. That group has about 100 LJs in it. I move through it backwards until I hit the last few entries I already know, open cuts which I usually read but do not comment on.

I do not bother checking for comments or edits unless I commented somewhere anonymously which happens about once a year, or if there is a specific post which gathers a lot of comments which I may be interested in reading even two days after the post was made. That's what comment emails are for, and those do usually do their job after all.