St. Arbirix's Journal: Scrameustache

This person responded to a comment of mine and I, as I occasionally do, looked up some of his comments. Yep, they were all pretty funny. Then I saw their journal and laughed. I too am a Firefly fan. Then I saw the near 30 posts this person has made in the 6 days after December 25th and I new this was someone I could get along with.

It really throws me for a loop when someone makes me their friend and I have no idea why. Was it that historical rant I went on? Was it that joke I made about killing kittens? Was it because my sig talks about Go? I cover such a wide and random path (I've been off Strattera for a year now) that I have no idea why someone thinks I'm worthy of being their friend (Concerta was a sucky medicine for me too).

Once I get a new fan though I immediately look them up and check out what kind of posting history they have. With any luck the record is full and I can peruse their higher marked posts and judge whether or not I like this person. Usually though, they're near ghosts on Slashdot passing silently befriending people like Caspers on the net.

I know it's a bit uncomfortable for some people, but there should really be a "Why?" text entry box next to the "Change Relationship" dialogue just so such feedback is useful. I suppose I'm doing fairly well on /. but I'm not quite sure where. Sometimes I make some extremely stupid and obnoxious remarks that I quickly wish to distance myself from, what if these people are befriending me because of that? It's just disconcerting and I hope people only consider me their friends after reviewing a few of my other comments.

And what's up with my one freak? This ezzzD55J person made me a foe a good while back and even then I had no idea why. My one foe, nathanh, was an ass to me and (I checked just to be sure) still a jerk in general.