Please cut your quizzes and memes....

[conuly]

There are some quizzes and memes which can break your journal/friends page. I don't mean like "they can force you to scroll" or "they can make you have to skim down over a lot of boring stuff" but like they can break your friends page or journal so all of a sudden your entries appear out of order, or you can't find the comment link for a certain post, or you have an annoying popup appear asking you to log in to roadrunner.net.

Very annoying, and the way to solve it is to always use the lj-cut. It's just polite.

This has been a public service announcement.

Comments

[thus-spoke-zara.livejournal.com]

Whoa. I've never seen one of those. What a shitty thing to program.

I'll cut from now on. Thankee for the heads-up!

[conuly]

They're not programmed like that on purpose, of course. They just contain bad code. Or, in the case of the "roadrunner" quizzes, an image which is hosted on a site that doesn't actually allow remote loading....

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

Well, the instructions for one set of quiz results did specifically tell people to delete the closing tag for an image or a link, I forget which. But that was the author's poor knowledge of HTML, not a malicious plan to break things afaik.

[conuly]

.....

Why on earth would she even suggest such a thing?

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

It wasn't intentional. It was a "delete this section" to just get the picture or just get the text. She understood function, but not structure.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

Thank God someone said this. What pisses me off is that this always happens in communities, and when you say "it broke my friends page" people call you a wanker and tell you to scroll.

....Uh. Yeah. Scrolling != broken. o.O

[conuly]

Well, to many people it does.

But seriously, even that. I shouldn't *have* to scroll to read my friends page. It's fucking annoying, and difficult. YOU should have the common courtesy to not post anything that is exceptionally large, and to check your code before you post something.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if it's just me, but when my computer hits a picture on the screen it scrolls really slowly-- like the Sinfest comic.

[ladydiana.livejournal.com]

Actually, depending on the coding and your hardware/software, it can actually make your browser completly unusable.

[celticess.livejournal.com]

Which ones were they? I admit I've not cut a few of my recient ones. But the people seeing those are only people that asked to see memes as I have a posting filter for them. *shrug*

[conuly]

Oh, I don't recall. Sorry, ducky.

[celticess.livejournal.com]

hehe I'm not sure why it is. Maybe it's because I'm sleepy but now I have the rubber ducky song in my head again since seeing you say ducky. :)

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Y'know, it's a little creppy that I always have to stlk you through LJ to get ahold of you. :-p

AIM me. Or neomail. Or something. Somehow I neomail IMMEDIATELY, and never got a reply, hmmm?

[thus-spoke-zara.livejournal.com]

Whoa. I've never seen one of those. What a shitty thing to program.

I'll cut from now on. Thankee for the heads-up!

[conuly]

They're not programmed like that on purpose, of course. They just contain bad code. Or, in the case of the "roadrunner" quizzes, an image which is hosted on a site that doesn't actually allow remote loading....

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

Well, the instructions for one set of quiz results did specifically tell people to delete the closing tag for an image or a link, I forget which. But that was the author's poor knowledge of HTML, not a malicious plan to break things afaik.

[conuly]

.....

Why on earth would she even suggest such a thing?

[bridgetester.livejournal.com]

It wasn't intentional. It was a "delete this section" to just get the picture or just get the text. She understood function, but not structure.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

Thank God someone said this. What pisses me off is that this always happens in communities, and when you say "it broke my friends page" people call you a wanker and tell you to scroll.

....Uh. Yeah. Scrolling != broken. o.O

[conuly]

Well, to many people it does.

But seriously, even that. I shouldn't *have* to scroll to read my friends page. It's fucking annoying, and difficult. YOU should have the common courtesy to not post anything that is exceptionally large, and to check your code before you post something.

[maladaptive.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if it's just me, but when my computer hits a picture on the screen it scrolls really slowly-- like the Sinfest comic.

[ladydiana.livejournal.com]

Actually, depending on the coding and your hardware/software, it can actually make your browser completly unusable.

[celticess.livejournal.com]

Which ones were they? I admit I've not cut a few of my recient ones. But the people seeing those are only people that asked to see memes as I have a posting filter for them. *shrug*

[conuly]

Oh, I don't recall. Sorry, ducky.

[celticess.livejournal.com]

hehe I'm not sure why it is. Maybe it's because I'm sleepy but now I have the rubber ducky song in my head again since seeing you say ducky. :)

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

Y'know, it's a little creppy that I always have to stlk you through LJ to get ahold of you. :-p

AIM me. Or neomail. Or something. Somehow I neomail IMMEDIATELY, and never got a reply, hmmm?