Best LJ filter names

[resonant]

Most people name their LJ filters in a pretty straightforward way: by fandom, say, or one for communities and another for individuals. But some people get creative.

I myself have one filter called "art_only" and another called "commsrecs," but the rest of the journals I read are broken up in a way that makes sense only to me, and named accordingly.

If someone comes to my site from an LJ filter, I can see the name of the filter in my stat counter. So I've made a collection of the ones that amuse me:



cabal
no_drama
nonapod
schnell
everyone_but_you
workingnow
if_you_must
noicons
larkin
extra-crunchy time crunch
playground
borderline_rl_peeps
sanity_protection


Also, once I got two hits side by side, one from a filter called "communities" and another from a filter called "no_communities."

I'm proudest of the no_drama one. I've never really had life goals, but if I did, one of them would be to be on everyone's no_drama list.

Comments

[sociofemme.livejournal.com]

my favorite there is the extra-crunchy time crunch. Hee!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I know! I love that.

[helleboredoll.livejournal.com]

Henh. My fave filter names of my own are 'little magic box', 'tight', and 'Non-Con'. I like to think of the positive impression it must give ppl of me when they see them. :)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Hee! Those are great.

[calathea.livejournal.com]

My personal favourite filter that someone came through on to my website?

"whydoireadthis"

I was like: good question! feel free to stop at ANY TIME!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's cold!

[cathexys.livejournal.com]

my favorite one i've seen myself in was scoobygang :)

but yours are very cool!!! cabal, eh?

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

scoobygang is funny!

And cabal, if I remember correctly, was from someone with whom I'd had little or no contact. But then all our cabals are varying degrees of imaginary.

[celli]

I didn't know other people could see the filter names! I'm glad mine are all innocuous. Although I agree, the no_drama one is clearly a high compliment. *g*

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if they've got a stat counter and they're embarrassingly vain, they can see what site the link was found on, even if the "site" is a page of someone's LJ friends list.

[ngaio]

If you ever get 'not the kitchen sink' then that's probably me!

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Huh! I don't remember seeing that one. It's cool, though.

[azephirin.livejournal.com]

Wow, I didn't know that it was possible to see filter names, either! Luckily mine are all very innocuous, though now I kind of want to rename them things like "crazy-ass crack hoz."

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

That would be good!

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

borderline_rl_peeps
sanity_protection

are also pretty good.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

They are. I love reading these things.

[beadattitude.livejournal.com]

I like the "everyone but you," and "extra crunchy time crunch." Hee!

Also, "If you must." Dying to know what THAT's about.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

The way I imagine it, "If you must" is sort of, "You're not allowed to do personal internet at work, but if you must, use this shorter list." But who knows.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Uh. That playground one looks familiar....

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Is that you? I've been writing these down for months, and I didn't write down the username with them. "Playground" is very clever.

[springwoof.livejournal.com]

the "sanity_protection" one sounds like a compliment to you as well... :-)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I guess it is. Unless it's short for "in need of."

[rhi]

::grins:: nonapod is for the days when the Astronomy Picture Of the Day has a picture more than twice the width of my screen display.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Bwah! Man, I was way off. I was thinking, "Nine feet? Maybe it's a poetry reference ... or maybe biology ..."

[eledhwenlin]

"schnell" is not quite as amusing to me (it's German for "fast"), but

extra-crunchy time crunch
borderline_rl_peeps
sanity_protection

are cool. :)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I didn't know that in german. That explains why I have a mental picture of someone shouting "Schnell!" at sled dogs.

[amalthia]

i had no idea other people could see your filters. for me anyone that made my workingnow filter it really is a compliment.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

It surprised me, too; I'm glad I had seen how they showed up on a stat counter before I created and named my own filters.

[swanswan.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. People can read those? Can people *not* on the damn sanity_protection filter read them? Because the drama would kinda defeat the purpose of the filter in the first place.

(and yep, you should take it as a compliment!)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Well, here's how I found them. My stat counter tells me where each hit comes from. So if you're reading along off of a filter, and you click on one of my stories, my counter will read that as a hit from, you know, you.livejournal.com/friends/the_only_ones_i_really_like.

So, hypothetically, if I weren't on the_only_ones_i_really_like filter, and someone who was on the filter posted a link to one of my stories, and you clicked on it, then I could see that you clicked from that filter.

Of course, this depends on me being vain enough to haunt my site statistics. Not every writer even bothers to have a stat counter.

But this is why my filters mostly have mysterious names.

[isilya]

I found out I was on a filter called "medicated". And of course, if you post a picture from your webspace, you'll get hits from everybody's filters, regardless of whether they click on any links or not!

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

*helpless little sound*

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

You're on my 'people who haven't pissed me off yet' filter.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I love the 'yet.'

[maggiebloome.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, crunchy! My filters are terribly boring. They say things like "people" and "fandom" and "misc" because everybody needs a misc box. Actually I should rearrange them because I usually read them in the same groups of four (apart from people) so really I just have too many filters.

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking maybe I have too few; my main one is so big that it encourages me to skim just to get through it.

[rhiannonhero.livejournal.com]

Hee! You're on my "no_communities" filter, so that was likely me! :D

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

[waves at you from stat counter]

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

*g* My filters are "everyone I care about" and "everyone else". Guess which one I never ever read? ;)

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

hee!

[axiom_of_stripe]

i used to have a filter called ha_ha_resonant_i_made_you_look, but apparently you never looked! *cries*

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Well, clearly you are not spending enough time hanging out at my site venerating my every syllable!

[skuf.livejournal.com]

How does that work, coming from an lj filter??

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Your LJ-filtered-friends-list gives you a page whose url is something like http://you.livejournal.com/friends/stupid_people_to_mock. If you click on a link to my story from that page, and I happen to look at the stats for the story page, I'll see that url as the "referring link."

everyone_but_you

[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

everyone_but_you

*snorfle* How was that, It's not paranoia if they're REALLY out to get you?

sanity_protection

My flist IS that filter. & ;-)

Re: everyone_but_you

[resonant8.livejournal.com]

Mine too!

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Heh, I have always wondered what your filter names mean. At least, the ones I've been on.

Mine are boring, I'm afraid.