Well, as long as they weren't actively trying to rickroll me to their journal, whatever makes them happy.
It was more amusing to me than anything? (At least it seems that way now, in retrospect.) Like, you could see how we'd got there.
1. Someone wonders if they'd get more follow through to their journal by formatting a link like an LJ cut.
2. Other people: I guess this is how links are supposed to be formatted?
3. Complaints from people annoyed at being mislead by fake-cuts start circulating.
4. Oh no, messing with the audience's expected behaviour of things that look like LJ cuts isn't *actually* the point, better put in a "follow the fake cut!" warning (but still format them like fake-cuts because. Because? See #2??)
5. Now let's not even format them like cuts anymore, just have bare links with "follow the fake cut to my journal!" warnings attached.
Number 5 is my favourite because of all the different confusions that have to go into it all at once.
I'll admit I started bolding links more, at around the fake-cut trend. I agree the bare ones aren't very eye-catching.
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Date: 2014-07-22 05:20 am (UTC)Well, as long as they weren't actively trying to rickroll me to their journal, whatever makes them happy.
It was more amusing to me than anything? (At least it seems that way now, in retrospect.) Like, you could see how we'd got there.
1. Someone wonders if they'd get more follow through to their journal by formatting a link like an LJ cut.
2. Other people: I guess this is how links are supposed to be formatted?
3. Complaints from people annoyed at being mislead by fake-cuts start circulating.
4. Oh no, messing with the audience's expected behaviour of things that look like LJ cuts isn't *actually* the point, better put in a "follow the fake cut!" warning (but still format them like fake-cuts because. Because? See #2??)
5. Now let's not even format them like cuts anymore, just have bare links with "follow the fake cut to my journal!" warnings attached.
Number 5 is my favourite because of all the different confusions that have to go into it all at once.
I'll admit I started bolding links more, at around the fake-cut trend. I agree the bare ones aren't very eye-catching.