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Filter post, round 1 (expect another round after launch)
I am in the process of recreating my access filters. To some extent I am adding everyone who was on them on LJ and gets an account here, but to some extent I figure, here's a time when stuff's changing, I'm meeting new people, reading lists are up in the air, might as well pose the question again of who wants to be on my access filters.
Habitually I lock all my content to my general access filter and only post publicly for completed fannish works or discussions I see as having some greater social merit. While dreamwidth is still in closed beta and my livejournal friends list has not all had the opportunity to migrate if they so choose, I am not locking my general content. Although I probably will go back and lock stuff later.
In addition, I use two more limited access filters: my whine filter, under which I whine about my personal problems, and my Loki filter, under which I discuss my spirituality.
Whine filter
My original description of whine filter when I first created it is as follows:
I am depressed. I talk about my depression under whine filter. I talk about my depression in a number of ways that intersect other areas of my life, such as academic, professional, and interpersonal relationships.
However I also talk about work and school primarily under whine filter regardless of depression content because my fannish identity could potentially be connected with my meatspace identity via that information, which I am not keen on. So whine filter isn't purely opt-in; I will also be making a determination of how much I trust you with personal information.
Loki Filter
My original description of Loki filter when I first created it is as follows:
Two years ago, with the aid of lidocaine and sleep deprivation (a fairly mild altered state, as these things go--it wasn't like it was mescaline or anything!), I received a visit from an eclectic incarnation of a trickster or chaos god who chooses to answer to Loki, when he chooses to answer to me at all. I had not previously been religious. I had previously been agnostic. Getting smacked in the face with a visit from a god sort of put paid to that. I say sort of because I haven't entirely ruled out the idea that I'm just plain crazy. My spirituality is a matter of struggle all around.
My Loki filter is where I talk about that.
Habitually I lock all my content to my general access filter and only post publicly for completed fannish works or discussions I see as having some greater social merit. While dreamwidth is still in closed beta and my livejournal friends list has not all had the opportunity to migrate if they so choose, I am not locking my general content. Although I probably will go back and lock stuff later.
In addition, I use two more limited access filters: my whine filter, under which I whine about my personal problems, and my Loki filter, under which I discuss my spirituality.
Whine filter
My original description of whine filter when I first created it is as follows:
Things likely to be on the filter:
--Nattering about school
--OMG I am the worst [foo] ever.
--Work is awful
--My interpersonal relationships are scary and make my brain fall out.
--When my personal issues show up in my fic and make Roy emo
I am depressed. I talk about my depression under whine filter. I talk about my depression in a number of ways that intersect other areas of my life, such as academic, professional, and interpersonal relationships.
However I also talk about work and school primarily under whine filter regardless of depression content because my fannish identity could potentially be connected with my meatspace identity via that information, which I am not keen on. So whine filter isn't purely opt-in; I will also be making a determination of how much I trust you with personal information.
Loki Filter
My original description of Loki filter when I first created it is as follows:
Okay, I'm feeling bizarrely superstitious about talking about Loki, ie, I suspect his hand in a lot of what-the-fuck lately, but I am not comfortable talking about it, like I'm not supposed to.
I also expect that my ridiculously literal belief in Loki is not comfortable for other people to hear about. It flies counter to most currently common belief systems, I think.
As it is apparently not clear: Loki.
Two years ago, with the aid of lidocaine and sleep deprivation (a fairly mild altered state, as these things go--it wasn't like it was mescaline or anything!), I received a visit from an eclectic incarnation of a trickster or chaos god who chooses to answer to Loki, when he chooses to answer to me at all. I had not previously been religious. I had previously been agnostic. Getting smacked in the face with a visit from a god sort of put paid to that. I say sort of because I haven't entirely ruled out the idea that I'm just plain crazy. My spirituality is a matter of struggle all around.
My Loki filter is where I talk about that.
Poll #39 Access filters
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 32
Which of my opt-in filters do you want to be on?
whine filter
31 (96.9%)
Loki filter
26 (81.2%)