This is starting to sound spookily like LJ's April Fool's joke re: auto-cuts after 140 characters. Is this seriously a road DW is interested in going down? Because it seems to me that a lot of these options we're discussing are just a passive-aggressive way to avoid telling someone that their posts are annoying.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Lije Carpenter <[email protected]>wrote: > The other issue with auto-cuts is that any default cut text is likely to be > uninformative, if it starts from the beginning of a post. There are one or > two people of my acquaintance who cut almost everything they post with the > same nondescriptive text, and that is not inviting to readers. > > Maybe an auto-cut would work if it cut anything after the third paragraph, > like posts on blog sites often do? "Click to continue" or "More after the > cut" or the like? > > Technically speaking, though, it wouldn't make much sense to start cutting > based on line breaks, because the three "paragraphs" I've just made are > certainly no sort of lengthy screed. Perhaps an auto-cut after X characters > would work (cutting at the next word break)? > > > Alexis Carpenter > principia at Dreamwidth > principia_coh at LiveJournal > > > ----- Jackie Lee wrote: > > | Images I could see, or quizzes, but a limit on more than three > paragraphs? I personally feel like the LJ/Dreamwidth is for text. If > people aren't interested in what I have to say, however long-winded I might > be, then all they need to do is take me off their read-list. I wouldn't > want my text cut off of my friends' read lists just because it happened to > contain more than three paragraphs! > > > | > --- > mystickeeper > > > > > _______________________________________________ > dw-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss >
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