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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

The recent Now polls have been total blockbusters in terms of comments - and lots of votes too. This runs us up against the technical limits of LJ, i.e. that an over-50 comments thread is a chore to read, and a 2-page one requires particular dedication even beyond that. Not much we can do about that, other than pass the thematic ball forward more often (i.e. start new threads).

So why's it happening? Well Poptimists is bigger now, and this is a period we all remember, and a lot of us were online then and fighting various crucial ideological pop battles (ahem) and so there's an urge to either defend territory hard-won - or complicate history by asking questions which Pop Fervour made us less likely to pose at the time.

It's interesting* that there's a definite hard kernel of a 00s Pop Canon there - after poll after poll with winning scores in the 70s, Britney, Kylie, S Club, Destiny's all post scores of 90%-ish, and I can think of a few more tracks that are likely to do similar. (Obviously a lot of this is a quirk of demographics - we've set up a community where ppl who like that sort of thing can wander in.)

*especially cos of the relative lack of majority-votes and high-scorers for the current month polls stevem runs - has pop got worse, or just more diverse?

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[juliet]

NB: anyone who uses Firefox, there's a Greasemonkey script called LJ Thread Unfolder, which on (most, but not quite all) journal styles will give you an extra link entitled 'Unfold'. Clicking this unfolds the thread in place, rather than opening a new page.

Another useful Greasemonkey script for navigating LJ comments:
http://pw201.livejournal.com/54000.html
This one changes the 'X Comments' link into 'X comments (y comments new)', & when you open the page, allows you to hit 'n' & 'p' to navigate to the next/previous unseen comment.

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

gah, this sounds lovely but as most of my ljing takes place at work, no chance of firefox :(