January 29, 2012
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Time Stamps
I check Xanga 2-5 times daily (depending on the kind of day I’m having) and have noticed that some older posts keep bouncing back up to the top. Like this one.
If your post isn’t getting enough attention, do you turn into a time stamp whore and adjust the date and time so it pops back up to the top of your friends’ lists?
(Note: If you are offended by the word whore after time stamp, then I can assume your answer is yes.)
Comments (12)
I must admit I don’t even now how time stamp works?
@Dippity - When you edit your post, there is an option to change the time stamp to the current time/date or any time date you specify.
No, once I enter it there it lays unless I find an error and need to correct it. I do confess to pre-stamping a post when I know I am going to be gone and without a computer. Then when the date comes up, it posts all on its own.
@thirtythousanddays - Yeah, but that’s not the same and updating the time stamp so it will float to the top of everyone’s list after it has dropped off.
I’ve never done this. I don’t write for the attention; I figure if I haven’t gotten comments nobody is really interested. I only figured out how you could post entries from previous days and in the future about a month ago (but I did know about updating time stamp).
The practice annoys me, because if I see a post at the top of subscriptions that I’ve read before, I’ll assume that I’ve seen everything else, when that might not be the case.
I do error correcting and based on the comments above maybe that changes the time stamp. I can’t believe the typos I make and don’t catch until the 3rd or 4th read through.
I’ve never done it. But I’ve seen people who do, and yes, it irritates me. Of course, I’m not here for the kudos from others.
I’ve never done it either, that I recall, unless it was years ago. Since mine are all protected, they don’t show up in the regular subscription feed anyway, so updating the time stamp probably wouldn’t make much difference. But even if it did, I don’t see the point. I’m not that much of an attention whore
@SherylM - thanks, that’s interesting, especially for posts that you want to delay when you’re going to be away from Internet.
@LonaMay - You have to actually tell it to update the time stamp. (There may also be a setting for this.) Otherwise it keeps the original date/time during an edit.
@AmyinVA - LOL – I keep missing your posts because they don’t show up in the feed. Maybe I ought to look at subscriptions instead.
I do it occasionally, like if I post in the am and want friends who are night owls to see it. I don’t mind others who do it frequently either. The whole point of writing here is to communicate. The big sites, dan and Paige, have a lot if readers so they’re just making it easier to read. Without time stamp, I’d miss a lot of cool stuff.
@AgainstTheWind1 - Good point