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Jul. 24th, 2006 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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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.
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: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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Date: 2006-07-24 08:10 pm (UTC)( Text here. )
I tend to trust that it's an lj-cut or something that functions like one, because people who link offsite (DA, FF.net) are usually people who aren't familiar with LJ, and therefore don't realy know how what a formatted LJ cut looks like. And if they are familiar and can figure out the html, they probably wouldn't be dumb enough to link offsite that way-- does that make sense?
Firefox has been loading really, really slowly as of late, so I can usually tell whose journal I'm being flung at before I actually get there anyway. So, as for the NWS journal styles, if it's a journal name I'm not familiar with, or if it's a journal name I recognize to have a layout that I personally don't like, I click stop, add "?style=mine" to the link and go from there, since I keep the default comment style on my journal at all times. [And of course, if I wasn't fooled by awesome formatting, I copy/paste the URL into a new tab and edit it there]
... Somehow I don't think that/I made any sense. D:
I don't deny that people go "lol this cut is so fake" or "fake like Michael Jackson's nose!" are incredibly and insanely annoying, and I wish to slap them across the face every single time they do it because it drives me absolutely bonkers.