Auto lj-cut?

[jspazzer.livejournal.com]

This community wastes a lot of time yelling at each other about posts that need an lj-cut.  Is it possible to avoid this problem by automatically inserting an lj-cut on all new posts longer than a certain length, or even all new posts period?  We could then get back to the more important business of yelling at each other for legitimate reasons, like whose burritos are better.

Comments

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

I think we tried that, and I think there is a rule...but new people don't know about it, or don't know how to lj-cut, or whatever...or people think "oh, MY post isn't too long!" or they just ignore it.

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

It would be nice, though, if there were a way to automate it, rather like the new adult content cut thingum.

[ron_newman]

Unfortunately, LJ does not give moderators the power to edit posts in any way, including adding or removing LJ-cuts. I wish I did have the ability to do this.

[ruxxell.livejournal.com]

can you put this under a cut?

[xuth.livejournal.com]

I think we should just have a full scale Balkanization of the community.

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

I think it's a problem of subjectivity. I've seen people request cuts for things that are too short to merit one in my view.

Oh, and Chipotle is terrible.

[ron_newman]

Adding to my earlier comment: this is not necessarily a bad suggestion, but LJ provides no way to implement it.

[douxquemiel.livejournal.com]

WIN.

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

Damn. Beat me to it.

[mperrotti76.livejournal.com]

In Sovete Davis, LJ cuts you.

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

TACOS LUPITA!!!!!!!!!!!

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

It must be a slow day for parking, weather or airplanes.

[ron_newman]

And snow. Not to mention that this kind of thing is better discussed in davis_meta rather than here.

[ron_newman]

Libana's coming to Cambridge and Lexington, but not until March.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

tl;dr

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought too, but hey.

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

NTICT.

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

Not that I care though?

Damn, I'm getting good at these things.

ANIMGBTIP

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

FAIL.

Next Time I'll Cut This.

I'm not even going to try to translate yours. It's far, far too long.

[ron_newman]

is that a stock symbol?

[jspazzer.livejournal.com]

Well, exactly my point. Who follows the "rules" of the Internet? If a rule is too unfamiliar or arcane or difficult to follow or arbitrary, people won't follow it, like it or not. Until you require an lj-cut competency test in order to post here, you are always going to have to deal with this problem. New people come to Davis every day. So you either figure out how to do it automatically or you just keep bitching about people not using lj-cut "correctly"

[bombardiette.livejournal.com]

Too long to be a stock symbol.

[anomie666.livejournal.com]

And now I must go back to internet porn.

[ron_newman]

There is no way to "do it automatically". The davis_square mods do not control the LJ software, and any automatic solution has to be implemented there.

Some blogging platforms, such as the one Universal Hub uses, automatically insert the equivalent of LJ-cuts, and also allow the site owner to edit posts and to add and remove cuts. LJ does not do this. You should redirect your suggestions to the folks who run LJ.

[cos]

... but can we lj-cut autos?

(and then talk about the parking issues associated with lj-cut autos, of course!)