On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Hot Tramp wrote: > Again, what happened to just defriending/unsubscribing? If > someone consistently posts in a manner that makes you > uncomfortable, stop reading their blog.
Why the binary logic? Is this how you operate in the real world--if someone is doing something that annoys you a lot, you just drop them, even if it's only about certain issues? If everything someone says is annoying I won't friend them in the first place, but if I've friended someone, there's something there that I like. In the offline world, there are plenty of friends that I have that I am friends with and enjoy and love and go out and spend time with, but we just don't talk, for instance, about Israel, or abortion, because we'll fight, and we shouldn't have to, and people who like us both don't need to be subjected to it. Why should I have to only friend people who post ONLY stuff that doesn't make me uncomfortable? Being able to block certain tags will do a lot for allowing people with different values to interact, which is pro-diversity. But the "I WILL MAKE YOU READ THIS BY NOT LJ-CUTTING" is in my opinion complete dumbassery. I don't get the logic behind it because even if I agree with the person's politics or whatever, the effrontery of them deciding for me that I am going to look whether I like it or not gets my back up. YMMV, I suppose, but if I *like* someone as long as they're not talking about $TOPIC, I see no reason why I shouldn't just avoid those posts or images. I've long thought that if LJ-cuts were automatic for posts above a certain size or image size, a lot of stupid arguments would never, ever happen. 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
