How about this?

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

I propose the following rule, which I put in the comments section on the post concerning dykeprincess's posting of the poster for the clothing drive.

We are a community and it is not unreasonable to have rules. I think ALL pictures, regardless, should be placed behind a cut. Those that could be considered non-workfriendly should have something outside the cut indicating it as such. Anyone who violates this gets a warning. A second violation and that person gets banned, which hopefully wouldn't ever happen. We are all adults here.

And just a sidenote- I had set up a community before- somervillemass. Feel free to join.

Comments

[neitherday.livejournal.com]

It is excessive, because it targets every image. It is annoying, because one then has to click on every other post to read them. Look back at the posts in this community. A good number of them contain uncut images. I'm glad their uncut, I don't have to open another window or use the backbutton to look at them. If you don't want to see them, use image placeholders.

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

Fair enough.

[protogeek.livejournal.com]

I second this

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

Look back at the posts in this community. A good number of them contain uncut images.

In fact, I just did. It was 4 out of 60, which (at just under 7%) I personally consider to be a fairly small number.

[being-homeless.livejournal.com]

I agree. for the exact same reasons. I'm on dial-up and it's faster to let the image load and see it on my friends page then to have to wait for LJ cuts to load.

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it's no surprise that I agree with you and I appreciate your letting my original post stand. Part of the reason I didn't cut it is that I made the image into a clickable link; I didn't want that behind a cut otherwise people might not have been likely to click it.

I also agree that having to click over every time someone posts an image to see if it was something that I needed to see (i.e. something that was critical to the announcement) gets to be a pain when I'm trying to catch up on lots of posts.

Furthermore I think it's tacky to propose authoritarian (the act of proposing was not but the text of the proposal was) policy when we have a perfectly capable moderator to set policy and then slip in a promo for *your* community as a way to say "if you're with me, ditch *this* community."

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

I think the rhetoric has gotten a bit overblown here.

We are a community. Someone commented that your post was inappropriate for work. You might not agree, but this person clearly did. A debate ensued, policies were questioned, alternatives offered, and the rules clearly set down. Some are not happy with this but they can choose to accept it or go elsewhere. For those who do, I offered my community as an alternative. And lest you think this is a case of taking my ball and going elsewhere because I wasn't happy, look closely at when I set up the community. I did this long before this issue came up.

[on-reserve.livejournal.com]

i'm not questioning when you set your community up only that I think the promo'ing was a bit tacky. I'm allowed that opinion even if you disagree with it.

[sonofabish.livejournal.com]

touche'

tacky, perhaps, but relevent.