On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Andrea Nall wrote: > So you are saying Dreamwidth should special-case Loudtwitter? > How about every single meme, quiz, test, or any spam entry, or > anything that some magical algorithm determines is "meaningless > content"? > > There has to be a line somewhere, but Dreamwidth doing things to your > entries seems a bit "evil" to me.
I've never understood why people think this about lj-cuts. Blocking, sure, but lj-cuts? Frankly I think lj-cuts should be forced for any post with images or larger than 3 paragraphs. And if I could put that in blinky text with a marquee, I would. (Because this is important <-- just kidding!) Particularly given that DW allows people to post much longer entries which will be that much more annoying if not lj-cut and of an annoying nature. I started to feel this way because of Very Political People who think that not lj-cutting images of torture victims, images of abused animals or 20 paragraph screeds about the latest Cause "because this is important, and I'm going to Make You Read/Look At it (and I don't care if you have your three year old in your lap, are at work, or are visiting your elderly parents)" will force me to actually look at/read all of it instead of scrolling like mad, AdBlocking the pictures etc. The dumbest phrase ever used on LJ has got to be "Not cutting because This Is Important" and I think the reaction of nearly everyone who sees it has to be "well fuck, the likelihood that I will actually pay attention to THAT's just gone down by about 300%." (In fact, if you are on my flist and you do this a lot with disgusting images, I adblock your whole photobucket.) Anyhow, LoudTwitter is outside content, unlike memes which people actually do post in their journals; blocking it entirely would be evil, but lj-cutting it, not at all, and allowing readers to opt out of seeing it doesn't seem to me to be any worse than allowing readers to opt out of seeing any other type of outside content they don't want served to them. Also, most of the vocal defenders of LoudTwitter I'm seeing here that are on my flist are actually LoudTwitter users. *g* I don't mind LoudTwitter but I can sure understand why other people do, and if you are serving more than a few tweets, it ought to be cut. (I don't use LoudTwitter, but if I did, I'm sure people would find it obnoxious. Nobody wants to know what I have to say to Pete and Ashlee Wentz--who don't read it either--or the SPN and MadMen RPers on Twitter unless they actually care about those folks.) Azalais :) **************************************************************** Azalais Aranxta (~malfoy) ataniell93 on LiveJournal and Vox http://groups.yahoo.com/group/malfoymadness "I know the true world, and you know I do. But we needn't let it think we all bow down." --Christopher Fry _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
