On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Rachel Lee Cherry wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Azalais Aranxta <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Can you imagine what a post that size would do to your > > reading page, uncut? Particularly if it was written by > > someone who was very angry about some controversial topic and > > wanted to MAKE YOU READ IT OMG? > > That's THEIR decision as the writer of the post. Not your decision as a > single reader.
The writer of the post is already, by posting it on a journalling service and not a blogging service, giving me the option of reading it in any colour, shape, form I care to, with or without images. Why is giving me the option to say that only the first 3, or 5, or 10 paragraphs will appear on my reading page (which is mine, not part of their journal), and I can then click the link to get to the rest, any worse than giving me the option to read it in pink text on a yellow background if I feel like it? I don't get this. > How hypocritical is it to say "Here, have x-thousand characters > of writing space, but your readers are only ever going to see > the first 140 characters before being forced to click a cut. > CHOOSE WISELY"? I don't quite get how that is hypocritical at all. I'm kinda baffled. (Most of the time, someone has decided whether or not they're going to read all of a post or not by the end of the second or third paragraph, anyway.) Particularly if people know it. I also don't think anyone was proposing a 140 character limit. People won't read all of it if they don't want to read all of it whether or not they have to click a link. The difference is that people who don't want to read all of it will not also be annoyed that they have to mouse and mouse and mouse to get past all of the stuff that they don't want to read. Since some people don't like having to click these links, having the option not to do that would also be good for them, that I agree with you on. **************************************************************** 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
