Not to play devil's advocate or anything, but I tell LoudTwitter not to cut my posts because I usually only tweet three or four times a day, which takes up the same amount of space as an lj-cut. If DW ever implements an automatic cut policy, I would want an opt-out.
(Also, whoever posted that killcode in the other thread, *thank you*. I'm going to go post that in my LJ so the people who whine to me about twitter can have it.) On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Lassarina Aoibhell < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > dw-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss >
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