Ha! I hadn't thought of it that way, but I think you just persuaded me not to try the codfish sperm. Or at least not try it if it's raw.
Regarding the backbiting/linking issue, I don't think there's a generally agreed-upon set of rules for that. Some people see their journals as a private space and don't want other people popping in to argue or go off on tangents, especially if they're lurkers and hence strangers. Others prefer to keep all the discussions in the same room. Still yet others are using LJ solely because it's user-friendly, and have the policy, common in many blogging circles, that no notification is necessary to comment upon someone else's post as long as you link and credit properly.
But now that I know how you feel, if I am ever again prompted to riff at length on one of your posts, I will post in your journal to tell you so and provide a link. (If my comment had been short and a direct response to your original post, rather than lengthy musings on a related theme, I'd have posted it in your comments in the first place.)
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Regarding the backbiting/linking issue, I don't think there's a generally agreed-upon set of rules for that. Some people see their journals as a private space and don't want other people popping in to argue or go off on tangents, especially if they're lurkers and hence strangers. Others prefer to keep all the discussions in the same room. Still yet others are using LJ solely because it's user-friendly, and have the policy, common in many blogging circles, that no notification is necessary to comment upon someone else's post as long as you link and credit properly.
But now that I know how you feel, if I am ever again prompted to riff at length on one of your posts, I will post in your journal to tell you so and provide a link. (If my comment had been short and a direct response to your original post, rather than lengthy musings on a related theme, I'd have posted it in your comments in the first place.)