In the case of LoudTwitter specifically, I might like reading all the rest of that person's posts, but don't like LoudTwitter.
Likewise for other things - I might have a friend who posts a lot of great content a lot of the time but once a week or so goes off on an obnoxious tear with things that are not LJ-cut. It seems like what Azalais suggested is a good compromise between "wanting to read x but not y of this person's content" and "cutting altogether." Lassarina Aoibhell Webmaster, The RPG Place http://www.rpgplace.net On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Hot Tramp <[email protected]>wrote: > Again, what happened to just defriending/unsubscribing? If someone > consistently posts in a manner that makes you uncomfortable, stop > reading their blog. > > - HT > > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Azalais Aranxta <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > dw-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss >
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