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[pez]

Along the theme of reddwarfer's rant on dear mods you have my permission to delete my post if this isn't allowed... I know I've ranted about this before and, goddammit, I now see my own flist doing the same thing. So those of you who do this, please, enlighten me:

( fake cut to my journal hahaha I'm so smart 8D )

What exactly IS the appeal of making a fake cut and then telling everyone that it's fake. In fact, WHY MAKE A BLOODY FAKE CUT? WHY? What has a normal hypertext link ever done to you to make you hate it so??? The point of a cut is to shorten the post, so that people can read in more detail if they choose to. A fake one defeats the purpose. And those who don't know it's fake may be taken from a community to god knows where. It creates confusion.

Please tell me, PLEASE, why do you do this? Thank you.

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[ele5.livejournal.com]

Actually, incredibly good question.

I use the text "Fake cut" but I don't even make it look like a cut... I haven't thought anything at all, just made the link.

I'm sure people can't get more stupid than this.

Thanks for waking me up.

[ele5.livejournal.com]

Somewhat seriously... Those "fake as..." annoy me a lot, but otherwise I don't even read the texts, except the information where it leads... So, the standard "Fake cut to my journal" doesn't matter me at all. Of course, in the way I've been using it, ie. omitting all the signs of a cut and keeping it looking like a link, makes it stupid, but it's not something I look at.

Perhaps I don't concentrate on right things, but basically I'm happy as long as people don't post pictures (big pictures at least, icons don't matter), especially, big pictures with nc-17 stuff without cutting or linking or such. Once I've found uncut gay sex on my flist. I really felt like ripping the poster into pieces. If that had been cutted or linked, I would have forgiven any text on the link.