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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.

Comments

[lechaco.livejournal.com]

yeah I tried the fake cut thing once but found it too troublesome to warrant another go. it's a waste of time. :\

maybe a "fake cut" psychologically makes people click it when it really redirects you elsewhere (where you might have to scroll through rants and other stuff that was outside of the personal lj's original lj-cut??). of course, it says that it's fake but maybe there is a psychological thing to it. like where you KNOW it's a scary trailer yet you want to click, kinda thing?

in other words, I don't know :D