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Honestly, people..

Using cut tags is about respect for your audience. It doesn't matter where you're posting. It's entirely the poster's choice whether to use them or not, but personally, I would hope that people aren't so self-centered that they have no consideration at all for the feelings of those they're expecting to read their posts, particularly when most of them are supposedly friends.

I haven't seen anybody here demand a cut tag. All I've seen is polite requests. I will admit, that three requests right off the bat is perhaps a bit overboard (if I were going to ask for an lj-cut and I saw that one or two people had already done it, I might have been inclined to hold off, at least publicly), but that still doesn't amount to some sort of "force". The insinuation in several of these replies that friends, possibly good friends (I don't personally know), of the poster are somehow not allowed to make a polite request of them, ANY kind of polite request, seems to me to be the height of arrogance.

I personally don't consider myself a good enough friend of kyburg to make this sort of request on my own behalf, but had nobody else done so I might have been inclined to make the suggestion on the premise that I know her to be the sort of person who actually cares about other people and, knowing that this sort of thing can be rather annoying for some people out there, she might want to be nice and save her friends some annoyance (which in general I think everybody could do with less of).

If nothing else, it's arguable that it would have been beneficial to use the cut tag simply to avoid this whole (rather pointless) argument on the subject overshadowing the real point of the post (has anybody else noticed that of all the replies to this, only one (so far) has actually even addressed the content of the post?). This seems to rather undermine the argument that not using the cut tag somehow makes people more likely to read it, because even if that's true it seems pretty obvious it also makes it less likely people will pay attention to it because they'll be distracted by the whole cut tag issue instead.

Personally, I would have been far more likely to read it (I actually still haven't) if kyburg had said "Read this, it's important" followed by a cut, because I respect her opinion, and because I'm far more likely to respect the desires of somebody else if it appears they're being considerate of me too.

Really, can't we all just be a bit more considerate of each other and try to get along?

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/14/poll.rude.ap/