02.20.07
Just. Shut. Up.
A good friend of mine asked me why I continue to go to sites that piss me off. Specifically he mentioned Digg and Slashdot, two sites that have had news I’ve been interested in for a while. My rationalization has always been that I like the news that the sites offer, but not the commentary from the vast majority of the trolls populating the ranks. Of course, this doesn’t exactly hold water because it’s very nearly impossible to read the news on the site without naturally gravitating to the trolls.
Which makes my decision much, much easier.
No more Digg. No more Slashdot. Both sites are now blocked from my browsers. Headlines are going to be read through RSS only and through Google Reader at that. If the City of Heroes dev tracker was available by RSS I’d add that too; it’s not, so I just closed up all of the CoH forum blades except Development. I need to find a good, commenting-minimal source for tech news, so I’m open to suggestions.
The big idea is to reduce the amount of stress I accumulate while I’m ostensibly trying to relax. Hopefully this will work as well as I want it to. It’ll take some time to get used to but eventually I should be free of the influence of idiots with agendas, even if that agenda is nothing more than to piss me off.
Ismail Saeed said,
02.20.07 at 3:42 pm
Hmm… that comment sounds suspiciously familiar.
On the other hand, when dealing with blog news, it’s sometimes the “comments” that provide the corrections to some initially uncertain facts or corrects shoddy reporting.
Still, I imagine CoH development isn’t subject to interpretation as such and blogs that post corrections or clarifications would satisfy that need.
Elynn said,
02.20.07 at 5:05 pm
Howdy :) Found you through technorati and I’m feeling a kindred spirit here on the whole CoH/CoV forum thing. I don’t know why I even GO there, since all it does is make me want to smash things (especially my mouse, which now cringes when I open the page in my browser, I swear.)
Why the heck DON’T they have a RSS feed for the forums? It’s 200-freakin-7 :) Remind me to go harass them about that.
Mike said,
02.20.07 at 5:15 pm
http://www.unseen.net/coh/dev/dev.xml
Dev digest in xml form