Feedback request

[hasimir]

I've received a request to stop my new site's automated daily Twitter updates from being cross-posted to LiveJournal. It seems like a reasonable request to me since the posts will still be available on my site, as an RSS feed and a syndicated account (adversary_orgI could just make my decision based on the above, but it seemed like a good basis for a poll. So

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[p_cat]

I'm still an advocate for people using their LJ for whatever the hell they please :)

[hasimir]

Yeah, I'm with you on that.

In this case it's only been running for three or four days and I've already had one request to stop it and one person unsubscribing (I'm assuming it's related). Since I've got the WordPress thing going and the syndication account, I'm less inclined to get ornery over it if it really annoys people. On the other hand I don't mind skimming over ozgenre's similar posts.

[longi]

So am I but I'm also a big supporter of "if we don't want to be on twitter dont get offended when you get unsubscribed en-mass when you cross-post it everywhere else" :)

[p_cat]

It's only a daily digest, so I don't mind - it's not like double posting Twitter to FB. Now that drives me crazy!

[lirion]

Would you mind putting them behind a cut?
Best of both world, people who want them can find them, everyone else can more easily skip them, particularly if the cut text/post title is clearly labelled that they are your daily tweetings.

I know it's doable so it seems a not bad compromise?

(none of the above poll responses seemed applicable)

[lokicarbis]

Doesn't always help - biggest shitfight that ever happened on my LJ was because people apparently didn't have the willpower to not click on the link that clearly stated that it led to the tweets that they didn't want to read in the first place.

Not that I'm, y'know, bitter or anything...

[hasimir]

Wow, people can be silly sometimes. I'm glad I asked this fairly early on.

[hasimir]

Neither the Twitter Tools nor the LJ-XP plugins have an LJ-cut available for these posts, which is why I didn't include an option like that. The LJ-XP plugin does have methods for handling HTML More tags to be converted to LJ-cuts, but they can't be inserted into the digest posts which are automatically generated.

[aphephobia]

Your journal, your business.

And it really ain't that hard to scroll past. Furthermore, you're definitely not the only person who does it, and your tweets are actually interesting.

[hasimir]

Thanks, but I think the opinion is very much against it. You might want to subscribe to the syndicated account I linked to in the post because I think I know where this is going.

[bunnikins]

I clicked 'I don't care' because I wouldn't say they were exatly annoying the crap out of me, but I don't read them. Not even remotely interested in Twitter.

[hasimir]

Yeah, fair enough. I didn't get the whole Twitter thing for a while, but then I got sucked in. I think it was crazyjane13's fault (via Q&A).

[penguin2]

Wot lirion said. Because I find people's tweets generally incomprehensible, but as you generally post interesting stuff anyway, it'd be good to have the option to eith ignore or click on the cut :-)

[hasimir]

It's not possible with the system I've got. Well, it might be with some serious customisation of the plugin, but I don't know PHP well enough to do that.

Anyway, it looks like the consensus is to remove it. You can still add the adversary_org syndicated feed to get the lot on LiveJournal.

[penguin2]

Sounds like a reasonable solution all round :-)