Cut tags should stay cut (even when on single entry pages)

[libitina]

Title:
Cut tags should stay cut (even when on single entry pages)

Area:
entries

Summary:
Currently, the cut tag affects pages that could have more than one entry. I'd like to suggest that cut tags apply to the entry view as well

Description:
Original request (entered as support request #2218):
Is there an html necessary reason why cut tags only work when viewed through a filter?

For example, http://libitina.dreamwidth.org/311800.html (IMO) should take me to a page with a cut tag, and only http://libitina.dreamwidth.org/311800.html#cutid1 should take me to the complete entry.

So, sure, my friendslist is a filter, so it stays nicely uncluttered, but it'd be nice to go to an entry with multiple cut tags and be able to navigate from the 1st one to the 5th one without the gymnastics of finding an easy filter for that page so I can read the text of the cut tags OR remembering the order of the cut tags so I can slip the right number into the URL.

Additional request:
And if you can make this work, I would love for it to be flagged to go upstream for livejournal. Thank you.

<user name="ysobel">'s reply:
Cut tags were originally created so that the content of one entry wouldn't necessarily affect other entries on the page. For example, if someone you subscribe to posts a large image, that will stretch out all of the entries on your reading page, but if they put it behind a cut tag, it won't cause problems.

Because of this, the cut tag affects pages that could have more than one entry. This includes reading pages, your journal page, the tag page if the entry is tagged, and the day page (http://libitina.dreamwidth.org/2009/07/14/). The entry/comment page, because it only has one entry on it, displays the full content.

If you'd like to suggest that cut tags apply to the entry view as well, please see the FAQ referenced above, which describes the process for suggestions.

My response -
Yes, please! I would love this as an improvement.

Poll #857

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Should be implemented as-is.
1 (1.6%)

Should be implemented with changes.
27 (42.2%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
34 (53.1%)

(Other: please comment)
2 (3.1%)

flagging/tagging entries as "important"

[ciaan]

Title:
flagging/tagging entries as "important"

Area:
entries, reading page

Summary:
A new kind of categorization metadata: separate from tags, separate from the adult content rating, separate from access filters: rate things on an importance scale when you post. Also be able to filter reading page to show only high-importance items.

Description:
How many times have you seen this on your reading/friends page, or posted something like it yourself?

"I haven't been reading for the past two weeks due to vacation/internet borked/final exams/cat tied me in the basement. Link me to anything really important that you posted!"

Or maybe you haven't been reading for two weeks and skip=5,000 scares you, so you look at some of the most recent entries and leave an inane comment to one agreeing that watermelons are yummy. Then the next day you go back further and notice that person just lost their job or had a parent die and you realize you must look like a jerk for not leaving any sympathy before you yammered on about fruit. Or you only have ten minutes a day to read your whole page.

Well, in some programs (like Microsoft Outlook, which is a tool of the devil but I have to use it at work) things can be marked "high importance." So if people used that on posts that were really major (those "comment if you want to stay friended" posts or announcements of birth/death/marriage/moves/name changes or whatever else they especially wanted people to read), then when you had missed a long period of time you could filter your page to only show high importance posts, and that way you could catch up on what you really needed to know from the past two weeks or whatever easily and then go back and maybe read other stuff later. It could also be helpful when you were short on reading time and wanted to skim.

Could possibly be a binary system, with most posts normal and some marked "important" or could be a multi-level system where posts could be given one to five stars, say, and then you could filter your reading to only five stars, or three and up, or whatever you wanted.

Drawbacks are that obviously some people would never use it on their posts anyway, and some people would mark absolutely everything as super-duper important, but oh well.

Poll #868

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Should be implemented as-is.
13 (37.1%)

Should be implemented with changes.
3 (8.6%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
18 (51.4%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.9%)