I read your posts because I like you, and I like what you have to say.

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I read this post because you were the one who posted it. most of what you post tends to be, if not relevant, interesting. that's how I decide what journal to read.

when it comes to visual submitions I look at everythign that shows up on my submissions page. as for stories, I'll usually save all of them and try to read them when I'm offline

I read/look at most things, but not at everything.

With pics, it's really just... whether it looks promising, I guess. Which depends on the artist and the rating and my mood and how busy I am and so on.

(Aside: all else being equal, I'm more likely to look at a pic with a full thumbnail than the one that's been artistically cropped to only hint at what's in the picture. In fact, partial thumbnails kind of annoy me; it's like, what, you think my tastes are unreliable, so you have to basically fool me into clicking to inflate your pageviews? Screw you. (But note this does not apply to thumbnails for extreme content, where the normal thumbnail has been replaced by a safe image with warnings on it -- those I appreciate.))

Stories are like pics, but moreso. And I'll be honest: if it's not in plain text that I can read on the site, the odds I'll download the file and fire up Word to read it are almost zero. With a story, skimming the text *is* the thumbnail.

Journals I read to learn more about the person behind them. I almost never read posts about commissions or cons, and I try to skip the drama of the week. Beyond that... *shrug*. People are interesting. Some of them more than others.

I remember you from the old school Furnation days. You rarely post anything, so I was happy to read this journal.

I like cuddly scruffy hypermasculine guys, I like that juxtaposition of hard exterior with soft interior, so I look for that in my furry porn thumbnails. Check my favorites.

I skip at least 80% of everything that enters my inbox.

I hate missing streams because I was a few hours too late getting the message.

I like your art and that is why I pay close attention to your journals when I can. I do this for few other artist I will always look in on and see if I want to read it or comment on them. All others I pick by what the subject title is about. If it gets my attention, I will save it to read later. But in doing this sometimes I might not get back to them for weeks at a time and my limit to read something is just one week. So anything past that, I will delete unless its an artist I want to keep up with (like you), or some others who title still peck my attentions still.Out side of those two things, I delete everyone that I don't have time to read in my long list of journals. As of right now I have 1,299 journals to look over do you can bet I will be deleting most of them.

As for submissions, I will look at anyone right off the bat that is in color over b/w first. Next anything with a minotaur in it, any large looking furry and some hot sex going on in them. That is both couple or solo. Most comics and the few things that get me all work up.

I tend to +watch people for a few reasons: they are someone I know, they are someone I admire, or I really like their art. And as I have a relatively low amount of people I watch, I try to at least take a glance at everything that comes up in my submission box. You always have interesting journals.

I read most posts that don't start with COMMISSION INFO! Aside from that I look at things that strike me as interesting.

I watch far too many artists to read every journal they write, but I always try to read anything that looks like it has a point. And as for someone's gallery, I actually do look at every flippin' image they have in there. There's always room to surprise me and I wouldn't want to miss it.

I read this journal because it didn't seem to be about commissions, Cons, Livestreams, or movies I have no interest in, -and- because I generally like to read -your- journals because you have stuff I like to keep up on.

Art, I just go through my backlog and open up everything that looks even mildly interesting. It tends to get backed up until I spend a day clearing it out, but there's always fun stuff out there.

I potter around. I tend to read Journal entries when I stumble on profiles. I may even end up reading past Journal entries! I sometimes look in whole galleries (thumbnail-only, though)...

I have a problem with deferring comments. /5,840 new messages/