I am not qualified to write such a thing, but I agree that it would be awesome. ... reverse-engineering something almost like an old message-board, but not quite. Right?
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Aileen <[email protected]> wrote: > ...Okay, the ability to collapse a post with one click would actually be > really cool. I'm still firmly against automatically cutting or collapsing > anything, but the idea that if I were scrolling down my reading list and saw > some monstrosity of a post, I could just click a button and smash that thing > down to its subject line? Sweet. I can also imagine people using it to mark > a post as read. It would be even more useful if it persisted across sessions > so someone could easily find where they left off on their reading list. > Anyone feel like writing a script to see if it's possible? > > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:02 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> 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 > -- http://www.squidge.org/~foxsden/ http://darthfox.livejournal.com/ "I think I'd like it if he could be wicked, and wouldn't." ~Anne of the Island
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