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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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[evaporate.livejournal.com]

... Aesthetics. I am borderline neurotic and prefer if (a) all comments are on the same page if I need to quickly look up what someone said [and so that Gmail can properly stack the comments and I don't have a heart attack when it says I have 16 unread emails], and (b) links that function vaguely as lj-cuts look like lj-cuts.

To provide for (a), I have to tell them that not only is it not a real cut, so please stop scattering comments everywhere rargh, but that it goes somewhere else, so please stop scattering comments everywhere rargh. To provide for (b), it has to look like a cut. If it's an unformatted hyperlink, I tend to think that it leads off-site, and those I refrain from clicking on before checking the URL. If it's formatted, at least I know (or trust) that I'm still going to be somewhere in the bowels of LJ if I click.

"Fake cut!" doesn't really bother me unless it's a normal hyperlink, because that's stupid, or if it's strangely colored/font-faced, because that's stupider.

... I'm compulsive over the oddest of things. Sorry.

[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.

[elyndys.livejournal.com]

*gnashes teeth* I totally agree! Fake cuts are totally pointless, and take far more work than an *actual* cut or a plain link. >:E What's also inexplicable is when people just post a link and say it's a fake cut. Er? -_-

[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

[lpatobe.livejournal.com]

Because one person did it and the rest are sheep? Fake cut jokes are almost 100% guaranteed to persuade me *not* to click on the link.

[lina-lau.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think fake cuts just look better than a link. :x It might just be me, but it kinda fits in with the rest of the lj friendspage more, and it just doesn't look as... empty and insubstancial as a link? Might just be me though. I usually warn and say something like "Linked to my fanworks journal" or wherever it is in the linky bit though. >.>

But yeah, I get annoyed by jokes about the fact that the cut is fake sometimes, but it doesn't bother me all too much, since I tend to check the address that links take me to anyway, whether they warned me that it will take me off site or not. XD;