{"id":371,"date":"2008-03-18T22:39:39","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T02:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/wordpress\/yes_i_will_link_to_you_just_see_if_i_dont"},"modified":"2013-11-17T23:41:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T23:41:19","slug":"yes_i_will_link_to_you_just_see_if_i_dont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/2008\/03\/yes_i_will_link_to_you_just_see_if_i_dont.html","title":{"rendered":"Yes, I Will Link to You, Just See if I Don’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chad Orzel has a complaint about LiveJournal culture<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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[P]eople in LiveJournal land have never really grasped the concept of the permanent link. Possibly because the default settings for the software make it fairly difficult to find the correct URL, or maybe because that have that little feature that automatically inserts a link given only a username. Whatever the reason, LiveJournal people tend to just link to the front page of whatever journal they’re pointing to, and it drives me nuts.<\/p>\n

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Why this particular behavior is so prevalent on LiveJournal, I have no idea. Regular blogs long ago got used to the idea of linking directly to archive pages, and while linkrot is still a problem (particularly since both Blogspot and Movable Type are prone to trashing site databases), they’re almost always good for a few weeks or a month. LiveJournal has never gotten the memo, though, and it’s maddening. If I go out of town for two days, I don’t even bother trying to follow links in most LiveJournal posts, because none of them go anywhere useful.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Hear, hear! And while we’re out saying mean things about the linking habits of LJers, allow me to air my<\/em> pet peeve about LiveJournal culture: what’s with the whole, “May I link to this please?” You just posted a page on the public Internet<\/em> for Pete’s sake. Linking is what pages on the public Internet are for<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The weirdest aspect of this little cultural tic is that unlike most other blogging systems, LiveJournal already offers built-in security settings, settings that enable you to mark posts as “private” so they’re unreadable and unlinkable for the outside world. Thanks to LiveJournal’s design, no LJ user ever<\/em> has to post on the icky public Internet if they don’t want to.<\/p>\n

Anyway. Asking “May I link to this?” is mousy and lame. Show a little testicular\/ovarian fortitude and just link<\/em> already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Asking “May I link to this?” is mousy and lame. Show a little testicular\/ovarian fortitude and just *link* already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goer.org\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}