My Opinion

[neitherday.livejournal.com]

As moderator, I do agree non-worksafe material should be <lj-cut>. However, I do not believe this post is non-worksafe. All the "inappropriate" bits are covered up. I've seen nudity (barring certain specific areas of the body) in magazines in waiting rooms in offices so many times, that I don't see a problem with dykeprincess's post.

Comments

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

I disagree with your judgement. I think in many offices the viewing of that picture would be considered inappropriate. Would it have killed dykeprincess to put it behind the cut? No, and instead, when requested to do so for very valid reasons, she takes it personally and insults people.

Just the fact that she didn't post a bandwidth-sucking pic behind a cut is annoying enough. I think it should be a rule of the community that all pics- worksafe or not- should be behind a cut and anything that could reasonably be considered non-worksafe labeled as so in the main post. C'mon, we are all adults here. Let's behave as such.

And if we are going to nitpick on technicalities here, the pickup point is in Boston, not Somerville, and therefore has absolutely no bearing upon our community.

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

Excellent point, actually.
While I enjoy the luxury of a cable modem, not all do; that's a rather large photo.
Neverminding what it's of for the moment, it would have been more polite to put it behind a cut.

However, given the poster's responses to the requests that it be cut, I'm thinking perhaps politeness isn't high on her agenda.

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

Since this is a community and there should be standards, if she violates the standards agains she should be banned. As should anyone else who violates them. There's enough places on the internet for this sort of thing.

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

I am in three communities; in two it is standard protocol not only to lj-cut all photos, but all really long posts as well..."be kind, put it behind" or something...

Yeh, I just made that up. I'm lame.

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, but you still make an excellent point. ;)

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

The thing is, though, is that there ARE standards, which are set by the moderator -- neitherday -- and you just don't happen to share them. She has no problem with the image that was posted. (As it happens, neither did I, but that's neither here nor there.) This is a journal set up and moderated by one person, AFAIK, and if she decides that no standard was violated, well, I'm sorry, but I think anyone who disagrees pretty much gets to suck it up and deal (or not, as they so choose). That's the beauty of a pull medium. If you have your own community and you moderate it, you can feel free to set such standards there and enforce them.

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

The pick-up is for the Boston-area. At my home. In Davis Square. I don't see how it could be any more regionally appropriate.

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

This was not explained in your post or on the poster. One would have had to write you to find that out. Point taken.

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

Right. But I thought (and perhaps the assumption was too much on my part) that it would be fairly obvious that I wouldn't be posting in the community journal if my announcement had no connection.

It was basically a call for anyone in the Boston-area that I am putting myself up as a drop-off site, being in the Davis Square area, I thought people in this community might be *particularly* likely to be able to drop stuff off (proximity and all).

Next time I'll try to be more clear. I'll admit I was in a bit of a hurry to get the news out since I need to have everything dropped off by the 18th so I'm sorry if I missed some details.