On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Ruth Gifford wrote: > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 5:39 PM, Stacia <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Nostariel <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> It's MY reading page, why should what you want take precedence > >> over what I find most accessible and usable? > > > > One could easily say "It's my blog, why should what you want on your > > reading page affect how I format/write/present my blog entries?" And > > that's the problem here, isn't it?
I think that there's a big difference between a social networking journal service like LJ and IJ and DW and a blogging site. Bloggers don't usually have reading pages, just feeds. And you get the content however they want to put it up there, as you say. > > Most everything on the 'net generally defaults to bloggers posting > > what they want, letting readers choose whether they want to read the > > content *as provided* or not. Those who provide content will be very > > much put off if DW has mandatory auto-cuts of their content. Readers > > should be able to configure their own reading page, of course, but NOT > > the content of other blogs. If I wanted my words on the web in an exact format I'd put them up on a blog or on my own site; by putting them on DW or LJ, I'm already agreeing to let people look at them in style=mine and avoid my lovely pink formatting, ask for image and video placeholders, be screened from adult content/concepts... a cut to keep pictures of all 93 of my cats from blowing up your fpage or to save your wrist from having to scroll past a long angry rant about a topic that doesn't interest you doesn't seem any different to me. (Note: I don't really have 93 cats.) > For example: there are times when I feel really strongly about > an issue and don't want to put my post about it behind a cut > tag even though my post may be a little long. If that ends up > with people taking me off their circles, well that's their > decision. Are you often convinced by people who stop you on the street and insist that you listen to them telling you about whatever they're protesting, even if you were going somewhere else or just want to window shop? I usually just cross the street. I am far more likely to ask for and read those leaflets protesters pass out if they are set out where I can grab one if what I see on the signs is of interest than I am if they're being shoved under my nose by someone who is intent on interrupting my train of thought. **************************************************************** 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
