LJ cuts--do you care?

[nancylebov]

I just got lightly thwapped for posting longish pieces to my lj without using cuts. Is there a consensus about cuts for length being desirable?
Do you care personally? If so, how long is too long?

Comments

Thwapped?

[fixx.livejournal.com]

More than 5 paragraphs, more than a page, etc. I *tolerate* all sorts. Newbies tend to make longer posts. Depressed and Suicidal people tend to make longer posts. I tolerate these people more than seasoned, programmer types whose LJ accounts are more than a year old, and who I believe ought to know better.

I've been trying to tune the use of my LJ cuts to comply with whatever I find annoying when I am the one reading. Scrolling through my "friends" is to me like reading the front page of the paper; I'm more interested in the gist of "the news" and then when I have more time, turning to "page C-5" for the rest of the story. While I have a broadband connection, I try to be considerate of those who do not. I know that longer posts increase the amount of time it takes for a page of 25 full entries to load. It is my impression at least that 25 entries with sufficient use of LJ cuts take less time to load.

In my opinion, hearing someone is going to a convention is news. Contact info pertaining to said trip is also news. A plea of some sort related to that, such as your plea for "slogans" that curse out spammers is at least timely. A long list of "new" slogans, *double*spaced* though entertaining and of potential interest to shoppers, is not news, perhaps advertising, and were it *my* entry, I'd have placed it on "page C-5".

Although I cannot be sure that you were referring only to my comment, on your previous post, given that mine is the only comment visible, I'm going to assume that it is mine you were referring to. "Thwapped"? I guess, I didn't mean it like that. Lightly" ? I'd say very lightly, My comment (http://www.livejournal.com/users/nancylebov/4289.html?thread=18369#t18369).

May I add that when I have put as much time into NAGGING someone to join LJ as I have done with you ( nancylebov ), I feel a slight responsibility to try to get them off to a good start, which occasionally means clue-ing them in on such subjects as LJ-cuts, helping them make or acquire icons, edit existing entries, post links and LJ names... in fact as others have done for me when I was the newbie. I made my comment after looking over your short posting history and though it does not appear that you make long posts often, it does appear your long posts are getting longer, and NEVER include LJ-cuts, hence my comment. To be fair, I saw only your PUBLIC posts as I am not in your friends list, so for all I know you have been using LJ-cut and I just don't know about it.

Please note, I have not as yet removed you from my list of LJ friends. My intent was to prevent the need by bringing the method to your attention and offer you some helpful instruction.