I'm thinking more of the technical aspects of this thing, where automatically cutting anything (and I'm assuming this would all be on the viewer's end, because anything else is evil) would require some sort of filter that wouldn't be guaranteed to work all the time. There would have to be all sorts of options regarding whose posts you wanted it applied to, when, and where, and it would get messy and out of hand pretty fast.
Will DW have the problem LJ had about subscribing to tags, where it only picked up on the tag if the user specified tags while posting instead of while using the "edit tags" function? Because that screwed up the tracking feature on LJ for me big time. Finally, if someone is actually posting things that approach the post limit without cutting them, that's bad netiquette, right there. If they're ignorant of that guideline, someone should inform them, and if they're doing it on purpose then they're rude and their readers will have to come to terms with that. On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Azure Lunatic <[email protected]>wrote: > This "force-cut" concept: how are people envisioning it working? > > There are two ways it could work, and one of them is evil and one of > them is not. > > The evil way, is that it edits the original poster's text, so a cut is > stuffed in there for everybody looking at it. (This would only be evil > for personal journals; I hear it's planned that a community > administrator will be able to do this to a community poster's post if > they deem it necessary.) > > The not-evil way is so that it displays cut either only on the friends > page of the person who has asked for it to happen, or only when viewed > by that person, or only when viewed by that person on their friends > page. > > If "collapse" becomes an option, what about "automatic collapse"? > _______________________________________________ > dw-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss >
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