Owl's blog: "Life as a Freakonature"

This one's quick. I promise.

Want to find a quick way to annoy me? And I mean, quicker than camping my cash flow in fuMafia every hour would, or quicker than shouting me with urgent questions when my status indicates I'm not here or even logged in?

I know Fubar is all about rating people and getting rated back. Why do people feel it is necessary to comment "rated" or "fanned" or "re-rated" as a status comment as though I cannot read my bar tab?

If I'm here, and you rated me, it's in my bar tab. I don't filter those out. I will get back to you. Maybe not immediately (especially if my status has the letters "BBL" in it), but it will happen. There's no need to remind me by leaving me a status comment telling me you did -- hell, I'll take shoutbox over that any day. At least I don't have to look at the annoying yellow text saying "You have a new status comment!" and get my hopes up that someone cared enough to say something profound.