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firecat (attention machine in need of calibration) ([personal profile] firecat) wrote2004-03-25 02:31 am

Moo

Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] pleonastic I am now a member of orkut, using the name stef maruch.

It has a Usenet community. That is...just wrong.
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[personal profile] snippy 2004-03-25 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
Um, yeah, that seems wrong.

[identity profile] jodawi.livejournal.com 2004-03-25 07:50 am (UTC)(link)
ne'er heard of it

[identity profile] jodawi.livejournal.com 2004-03-25 12:17 pm (UTC)(link)
To nod conspiritorially to Biscuit, with half-smile.
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Re: Moo

[identity profile] pir-anha.livejournal.com 2004-03-25 07:56 pm (UTC)(link)
my favourite bit was how they all immediately bitched about the interface, until somebody wisely said "why in the world are we still discussing this here? lets go to a newsgroup." and off they went.

what strikes me as totally weird is that it has a community each for LJ support and LJ abuse members. say what?

my theory is that a lot of people are simply using communities as they would use interest keywords on LJ -- to indicate conveniently what all they're interested in. since the interface does in fact suck, that's not a bad subversion.
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Re: Moo

[identity profile] pir-anha.livejournal.com 2004-03-27 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
So is there an alt.orkut newsgroup

no, but there should be!