Question/poll

[sholio]

So, LJ people ...

Do you like the little text that says the post has been crossposted to DW, or do you wish it'd just go away? (Now that I'm crossposting a lot of stuff, I'm trying to figure out how to set up my settings.)

[Poll #1614756]

Comments

[ladycat777.livejournal.com]

I particularly like the notice of how many people have commented on the other pages. That's useful, whereas the anything beyond a "comment here" link is inoffensive, but unnecessary.

[sholio]

*nods* Yes, I really like that, too! :D

[roga.livejournal.com]

Same for me. That way if I see 0 comments, I know I don't have to click on the link to read comments, and if I see 20 comments, I know there might be an interesting discussion going on.

[trobadora]

Yes, the comment count is incredibly useful!

[zillah975]

Useful! I like it! That said, it IS your journal, and I will not be distressed if you decide to take it away. :)

[sholio]

Hee, thanks! I think the thing is, I definitely find it useful on other people's posts (I just figured out how to get the crosspost text on the DW end as well, so now it goes both ways!) but I also find it visually cluttering and sort of annoying when it comes to my own posts. So I am torn! And I was wondering how many people actually use it, versus how many people are just vaguely annoyed and ignore it.

[wneleh.livejournal.com]

I like to know when there are comments on DW; otherwise, I don't care.

[sholio]

Makes sense!

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

I like it: as someone else said, when it tells you how many comments are on the other post. That way, if I'm interested in the subject and there's a lot of DW posts, I can go over and read that conversation. If it's 0...I can move on.

[sholio]

Yeah, I find the comment count links very useful too!

[michelel72.livejournal.com]

I find it useful; but it's your journal. So ... both? Heh.

[sholio]

Heh! Makes sense!

[starwatcher]

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If comments happen both places, I like peeking in to see the different views.
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[sholio]

*nods* Ditto! I've actually been a little annoyed sometimes to discover there were crossposts on an entry that I didn't know about; it felt like I was missing half the conversation!

[nonniemous.livejournal.com]

It's entirely selfish of me, but since I'm posting at DW and directing comments there, I like to know that I'm not the only one.

[sholio]

Hee! I think that makes perfect sense. No one wants to be the only one. :)

[ratcreature]

I find this link useful, but only because you don't post all content in both places, so I can see which is crossposted. If content is equivalent in a journal, I only follow on DW, and know that I can remove the LJ from my default viewing.

[sholio]

*nods* Yeah, that makes sense to me, since I don't crosspost everything.

[auburnnothenna.livejournal.com]

It's your journal. That said, I like it. I like seeing if there is a conversation going on at the DW side and if I see someone is basically cross posting from DW all the time, then I can follow them there rather than on LJ. At which point it becomes kind of moot... But most of all, I believe what you put on your journal, how you structure it, etc is your choice.

[sholio]

Heh, yeah, I know it's my choice, but I seem to feel differently about my own journal than other people's -- that is, I normally like the crosspost text because it's useful, but on my own entries, I keep feeling like it's cluttering up the place! So I was curious if I was just annoying people with it, or making it useful to them ...

[astridv.livejournal.com]

I find the links to the mirror posts useful because oftentimes I like to read the comments on the other post as well.

[sholio]

*nods* Yeah, I like peeking into both conversations myself, when I'm browsing other people's journals. Especially before commenting and perhaps repeating what's already been said at the other post.

[frogspace.livejournal.com]

I like the versions where it just says at the bottom of the post Crossposted here (X comments) but I remove everyone from my flist who says that the entry was originally posted somewhere else and please comment there with OpenID. Mostly because the text clarifies that the journal owner would prefer to be read on the other journaling service, I have an OpenID reading list there, and I dislike zombies on my flist (I can't help it! These journals look like the undead to me! /o\).

[sholio]

Well, in fairness, the OpenID text is the default -- if you just enable crossposting and don't edit it, that's what it says. (At least it used to; not sure if it still does.)

But, yeah -- hearing this is useful! :D I don't want my journal to be undead, even if we're moving towards Halloween!

[flingslass.livejournal.com]

No problem, it just means I can look at DW or LJ. I don't like all the stuff a bout linking to FB or Twitter et al so I found a code that made it go away. I'm happy now! :D

[sholio]

Yay for helpful scripts! (I'm kinda just ignoring the new little buttons. I thought they'd drive me nuts, but I've actually found them easy to ignore.)

[tielan]

I'm ambivalent. I don't tend to post the little comment-y thing to LJ, although I keep a record of crossposts to LJ on my DW. It's convenience from DW to LJ, more than anything else.

Sometimes I think it would be nice to have the "this post has so many comments"...but my 'so many' is usually 0, and most of the people I'm personally invested in are on LJ and show no sign of upping and moving to DW, no matter what's done here at LJ...

[sholio]

Yeah; I don't see myself migrating from LJ anytime soon, because so much of my flist is firmly in place on LJ and not going anywhere. And for my part, I don't really care where I am; I just want to be where the people are. (At the same time, there are definitely people on DW that I want to stay in touch with as well; hence my presence in both places. And I love being able to make a full DW backup of my journal! I would frankly not put it past LJ to make itself so unusable in the end that it's impossible to stay here, and if that ever happens, it's comforting to know that moving full-time to DW would be just a matter of a few mouse clicks, rather than a giant traumatic hassle.)