Could everyone please not change the title to the threads? There are now several Twitter and a couple 'entry cut collapse/expand' threads going and they are the same topics.
I don't mind, but the thread police might. Thanks, Okwari On 4/16/09, Azalais Aranxta <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ dw-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dwscoalition.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dw-discuss
