Katie: We've started another thread to talk about it, but what I mean by collapse is that you could click on an entry and it would just display the subject (or the timestamp, or the username, whatever). It would be something you have to choose for each entry rather than something that automatically happens.
Azalais: Would the collapse thing work for you? It gets rid of the annoying long post, and the OP never has to know. On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Azalais Aranxta <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Azure Lunatic 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.) > > Azz, help me understand why you think this is evil. Because I'm > not seeing the evil here. > > It doesn't shut the OP up. It doesn't eliminate anything the OP > put in their post. It's all still there for anyone that wants to > look at it. It just keeps people from having to mouse and mouse > and mouse because someone has posted omg hueg images or 10-30 > single-spaced pages' worth of 12-point type and decided not to > cut it either because $THISISIMPORTANT or they never bothered to > learn how to cut anything. > > It does eliminate gallons of wank because someone says "LJCUTPLZ > I'm at work dammit" and the inevitable "you shouldn't read DW at > work" and "I don't wanna cut this BECAUSE THIS IS IMPORTANT and > if I could force beam it into your brainstem I would" replies > follow. > > (This is the reason I have typically always used strong language > to refer to the practise of refusing to cut because "THIS IS > IMPORTANT"; because the THISISIMPORTANT poster makes themselves > sound like they'd physically force the information into your head > if they had that option. Which is not the way I think people > should treat their friends, and yes, I am aware that this is a > value judgement.) > > Azalais > > **************************************************************** > 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 >
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