Clarify/revise Account-Display style=mine option

[kaigou]

Title:
Clarify/revise Account-Display style=mine option

Area:
backend, user account area

Summary:
Revise the Account-Display option to clarify its use in overlaying one's journal style *on *all* journals* and not just your own.

Description:
The option currently says: "View comment pages from your Reading Page in your own style." This isn't clear, but especially for users coming from journaling sites where a basic/free account means you see a fancy style on everything but the "read post and view comments" page, which left as a generic unstyled plain page. Even if you are LJ CSS-savvy, "comments page" isn't even a class (as opposed to page-reply, page-read, etc), so I doubt I'm alone in figuring that the "comments page" is shorthand for the "view single entry and read/reply to all comments page".

The result is that the option reads as though it's actually saying, "View your single-entry-and-comments page in your own style instead of that really ugly generic unstyled plain-font page that just screams you've got an unpaid account." (And the "from your Reading Page" part doesn't even make sense, given that assumption of what "comments page" means, because it sounds like this won't apply if you open the post from, say, your Archive page or your list-of-tagged-entries page.)

I'm sure discussion will provide the best phrasing, but here's two ideas as starting points. (Secondary help text on 2nd line.)

- View *all* post pages in your own style, including other journals.
// Select this to apply 'style=mine' when reading individual entries in other people's journals.

- Overlay your style when reading other people's posts.
// This option does not affect your own journal's presentation.

Attempt #2's help text is a mangled try at reassuring the unfamiliar user that "Turning this option off will NOT remove or nullify your style in any way", which was the impression I'd gotten when first setting up my account -- that to *deselect* meant I was actively choosing that ugly de-styled post+comments page.

(If help-text isn't possible, then at very least insert a [?] icon that links to a FAQ page about the style=mine option, because that's still better than no explanation at all.)

Poll #1749 Clarify/revise Account-Display style=mine option

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 21

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Should be implemented as-is.
5 (23.8%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
4 (19.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
6 (28.6%)

(I have no opinion)
2 (9.5%)

(Other: please comment)
4 (19.0%)