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Oct 25, 2004 23:11

should I put all my posts in an lj cut to cut down on the clutter on other people's freinds pages?

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annodomini October 25 2004, 20:52:27 UTC
I wouldn't say all. If it's more than a paragraph or two, and you think not everyone will be interested in reading it, then put it behind a cut. But if it's just a paragraph, it's easy enough just to skip over. And if you put it behind a cut, say enough before the cut so we'll know what it's about, and know whether we want to read it or not.

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lucky_otter October 25 2004, 21:14:21 UTC
A cut is appropriate for a post over, oh, 300 words or so. For reference, of your recent posts, "Why me?" is 252 words, and "I am a young woman" was 575.

You may not want to cut all of it, just the bulky part, as annodomini mentioned.

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okay thanks gigusfox October 26 2004, 05:46:00 UTC
I'll start doign that as I don't want to be cluttering people's journals. What got me thinkign about it was a post by fireheart

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Re: okay thanks fireheart October 26 2004, 13:22:50 UTC
That's ironic. I hate cuts unless they are hiding meaningless LJ-memes or large images. The issue for me is the number of posts. I get 25 posts to a page, and LJ-cuts don't affect how many posts I see. On the other hand, LJ-Cut requires me to open an entirely separate page on my 28.8K dial up connection to read the rest of the post. I'd much rather have to scroll a little farther to avoid something I don't want to read than have to open a separate page to read something I want to see.

I vote NO on LJ cuts for in your journal.

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well gigusfox October 26 2004, 13:33:11 UTC
it wasn't jsut you but it sparked my looking around at other peoples views of it across livejournal. though considering you ahve such slow bandwidth I may just use it for memes and really really long posts.

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muzai_naru October 26 2004, 06:18:20 UTC
another thing that I think you do but I don't see other's doing is posting Meme's behind LJcuts. I don't mind one but any more than that should really go behind a cut. That's why Ididn't have Adam on my list for a long time. He had too many meme and not enough actual posts.

Anyway. Class.

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