Right now if there is a certain topic that we're not interested in reading we either unsubscribe from the user or put up and shut up.
Not everyone wants to tell people their posts about their pets are annoying them and really, its just a reading preference. What you find annoying, others may enjoy like hell. So having the option to hide/collapse/lj-cut posts on command or via a default keyword filter would be useful. g On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 09:57:19 -0700, Aileen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
