Dynamic minimal gives you a list of headers. You have no idea of where the photos are. So you have to click painstakingly comment by comment to see what will be revealed. The Wednesday Photo Blog N° 1 currently runs to well over 100 comments.
Great will be the enjoyment for those on lower bandwidth than others.
People can help by using descriptive comment titles.
If I may quote you from Wednesday's thread, As far as I'm concerned (and I'm not, in this photo blog, though I like to post pics elsewhere) ... frankly you can all do what you fucking well like. Oye, vatos, dees English sink todos mi ships, chinga sus madres, so escuche: el fleet es ahora refloated, OK? — The War Nerd
Your suggestion is one possible way but there are others too. I'd far rather find a decent compromise that works for as many people as possible.
People could use descriptive comment titles but I know I usually forget to do this and I think many do. Ad astra per aspera
As for my use of a rude word, it was sparked by the flippant attitude of those who appear to believe in open access, grassroots, bottom-up blogging... with lower quality for the technically (and possibly financially) less well-endowed.
I sometimes get annoyed like that. Must be my anarchist soul.
We don't have the information on accessibility and speed - apart from one or two people that we know have dial-ups. We were trying to find that out, and the concern about speed was mentioned several times.
This is about exploring possibilities, not making rules. If the alternatives cannot be discussed, then that is censorship and hardly anarchist ;-) You can't be me, I'm taken
If the alternatives cannot be discussed, then that is censorship
Is anyone preventing discussion? Is anyone preventing anything at all, in fact?
We are not going to give advance instructions here to any user or lurker that they must set Dynamic Minimal in order to access this or that diary.
This sounded preemptory... You can't be me, I'm taken
It should be obvious that we should not produce a dichotomy between technically-enabled users and others in their access to different parts of ET.
Neither do I appreciate your dismissal of a 'photography club' somehow operating within ET. There aren't Energy Clubs, Politics Clubs or Astrology Clubs. Visuals are part of today's discourse and there are a few people here (and I believe you are one of them) who think that visuals, (eg charts) can do things that text can't. Photographs, whether personal or from elsewhere, can also make text come alive. Some people are interested in improving their skills in this direction for the benefit of ET as well as their own communications expertise.
And last but not least, photos have a social role to play in this community. You can't be me, I'm taken
I didn't "dismiss" a photography club "somehow operating" in ET. I said we shouldn't create a separate club, particularly with different access conditions. I was simply warning against something I don't think would be a good development.
Obviously I agree on visuals, always have, and I think you know that.
Why are you attempting to paint me as a censor or a prohibitor? As someone who is intent on doing down photographers, who can't see that it's for the benefit of ET or can play a social role? When did I say anything to the contrary? As they say on the blogs, talk about a strawman...
A gnome giving an opinion in a thread doesn't equate to a new rule being laid down. Ad astra per aspera
Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
De toute façon, qui veut m'épeler "cimetiére"?
:-) Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
If the alternatives cannot be discussed, then that is censorship and hardly anarchist ;-)
You seem hell-bent on claiming that you are censored. Why is that? The site won't get better if you keep on doing this. You're just depressing me. And that's not a good thing. Not for me, and not for you. In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
In fact, you can set different display modes for different number of comments in a thread. At some point I was using Nested, Dynamic Threaded and Dynamic Minimal for increasing ranges of numbers of comments. Oye, vatos, dees English sink todos mi ships, chinga sus madres, so escuche: el fleet es ahora refloated, OK? — The War Nerd
