The purpose of a livejournal cut is to make it easier to skip a post. There are times when I want to make it easier for people to do that- when I write something that may offend people, I want to make it easier for someone to skip it if they know it might hurt them. When I write a post that is a review of a work by an author of color, on a community devoted to reviews by authors of color, I do not want to make it easier for someone to skip the post. I don't see how scrolling 5 screens or being 13 paragraphs long has anything to do with rudeness. It's not my job to make it easier for you to ignore my post. I don't understand why it should be made easier to read short posts than long posts on this community.
Furthermore, by curtly writing "cut-tag, please" without explanation, they made it harder for me to tell if I had in fact unwittingly said something offensive or hurtful, which might have prompted me to do more than cut-tag but consider editing my post. I interpreted it as a demand because it came without justification.
I invoked the mods because the community has no rule requiring me to cut-tag the post because it's too long, while it does have rules requiring me to cut-tag the post if I think the post might trigger someone.
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Date: 2011-07-14 11:14 pm (UTC)Furthermore, by curtly writing "cut-tag, please" without explanation, they made it harder for me to tell if I had in fact unwittingly said something offensive or hurtful, which might have prompted me to do more than cut-tag but consider editing my post. I interpreted it as a demand because it came without justification.
I invoked the mods because the community has no rule requiring me to cut-tag the post because it's too long, while it does have rules requiring me to cut-tag the post if I think the post might trigger someone.