Nine Inch Heels
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If people keep pumping status updates like 3/4/5 times a day, I think these updates should either be "ignoreable" (meaning there isn't even an indication that somebody posted something), or status updates should be limited to a set number per week/day. The way it is now, I can consider myself fortunate, if I get to see something that is more than a non-content one-liner during "rush hours".
Sure, I can have a list of people whose status updates I best skip in my own interest, but that doesn't change the fact that potentially interesting stuff gets pushed away by "DWitterers", because the usual suspects just can't help themselves. I find this abuse, or rather overuse of status updates seriously frustrating at times.
Put non-content in a status update for all I care, everybody does once in a while, I'm guilty of that as well. It's also what they're there for I believe. Seriously though, non-content several times a day just isn't necessary, let alone interesting, or contributive.
Did people forget that "everything else" exists, or am I oversensitive here?
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@MrGlide, I'm not even against the idea of having non-content in status updates, on the contrary... I'm against the idea that people can crank them out ad infinitum each day, because it turns the sidebar into a mere display of white-noise.
If people like @Battle_Kirby take their time and write up relatively long texts, which may or may not be fun to read once in a while, it's kind of OK, actually. What's not OK is that for each new text, there's a new status update as well, and it's not just BKirby, there quite a few other ones here who also *have* to make themselves visible as much as they can. As if it's impossible to extent a previous status update by commenting on it.
One-liners, devoid of pretty much everything, several times a day, is plain spam that can't be ignored or filtered at this point in time. Sure, I can decide not to look at these, but it doesn't change anything about the fact that this spam pushes the "non-spam" away.
What I don't like is that instead of putting the next non-content right under the first one that was made the same day, maybe even a few hours ago, people always create a new one, just because why not... That's when other things like Mordeth's blogs, or KMX EXII's reviews, which actually revolve around the game for a change, get pushed away quickly. This actually "defeats" the purpose of these small blogs to begin with. It's like people can't even be bothered to think about how to keep their stuff compact, for whatever reason. That's why I am in favour of limiting "new" status updates to one per day, for example.
However status updates will get reworked, as long as non-content spammers push relevant content "into the void", because they think the world revolves exclusively around themselves or whatever, there's a problem. That's how I see things.
Oversensitive or not, the spam is objectively there, and said spam objectively reduces the exposure of actual content to the community. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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