Re: Set up LiveJournal community?

Jonathan L Cunningham <spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't think it will. LiveJournal just isn't anything like as good as
Usenet for discussing things. I see it's function as rather different.
Neither better nor worse, just different.

So, since nobody has yet answered Christopher Wright's question: what
is it for? (Unless Catja's comment was a (partial?) answer.)

I answered the "why have this particular livejournal community" rather
than "why have livejournal at all."
Since you seem to want the second, I will try for that.

I like livejournal. I like having some idea of who is reading my online
journal (I had a blog for nearly two years before I signed up for
livejournal, because, well, the software was free and it sounded like
fun.) I like reading the journals of other people, and livejournal is a
conveniant way to do so. It's a more people centric and less topic
centric enviroment than newsgroups.

If you think you would like to get to know certain people that you have
met here better, then reading their livejournals would probably help
accomplish that goal. If you don't want to, and you don't have any
burning desire to post a journal yourself, I see no reason why you
should get a livejournal account.



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