[Reader-list] User interface on LiveJournal

[Kiran Jonnalagadda]

On 01-May-05, at 9:51 PM, Kiran Jonnalagadda wrote:

> 4. The <lj-cut> tag breaks a post with a link to where the  
> remaining text can be read. The LJ Friends page -- which is the  
> primary way to track other LJ users -- honours this tag. Since long  
> uncut posts will require uninterested readers to scroll too much to  
> get past it to the next post, there is a culture of pulling up  
> people who don't cut their posts, and a counterculture of people  
> refusing to cut their posts just because some readers are fussy.

The official explanation:
http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=75

A humorous take:
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/LJ-cut

Examples from the Bangalore community. Notice the comments demanding  
the post be cut:
http://www.livejournal.com/community/bangalore/213138.html
http://www.livejournal.com/community/bangalore/198975.html

And from an avowed anti-cut user. Notice how it develops:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/beatzo/75599.html?thread=892239#t892239
http://www.livejournal.com/users/beatzo/76180.html (post and commentary)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/beatzo/76602.html (last-but-for-one  
paragraph)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/beatzo/84942.html? 
thread=1088974#t1088974

-- 
Kiran Jonnalagadda
http://www.pobox.com/~jace