Cut-tag photos?

[firecat]

Historically I've used a cut-tag for all photos posted in my journal. Now that I have a high-bandwidth connection I find that I tend to prefer seeing other people's photos in the main entry rather than under a cut-tag. So I am trying to decide whether to change my policy, and therefore I'm creating a poll about it.

Note: I try never to post photos that are bigger than 500 pixels wide; if I did post a photo that was wider, I would definitely cut-tag it so that it wouldn't make people's friends pages really wide. So this poll is about photo file size rather than photo size.

[Poll #404413]

Comments

[jodawi.livejournal.com]

I don't care about the data size, just the pixel size. More than 600 wide might stretch out my page farther than is comfy for reading.

[supergee.livejournal.com]

What he said: Cut-tag wide photos.

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

I don't know anything about pixel sizes, but I hate it when people don't cut-tag images that happen to be wider than what my window is currently set at.

-J

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Since they're not going to be insanely wide, it matters to me not at all. I have my browser set not to display off-server pictures anyway, so I'll be clicking something whether it's cut or not.

[nolly.livejournal.com]

I prefer not cut at all, as long as they're not wide, but feel like by answering the poll, I would be attempting to guess at what would make everyone happiest, and it's been so long since I was on dial up that I've no idea.

[firecat]

I'd rather you answered the poll because the overall results will help me determine what would make everyone happiest ;-)

[saluqi.livejournal.com]

Depends if there is more than one photo, it's a layout rather than bandwidth question for me. One 50K photo I don't mind uncut (hee!), more than one and it starts to clutter up my friends page.

[wild-irises.livejournal.com]

Ah-hah! I'm not alone!

[zebraartist.livejournal.com]

well...the way I went about this issue in my journal

I posted a warning - what size images I post, and how many I post without a cut tag. Seems fair enough - I've had just a few complaints - but, I don't feel responsible for keeping my journal work safe for others!

What ever it is you decide - post as you wish, and I'll be happy I get to see the photos - cut, or not :-)

[syzygy.livejournal.com]

I do that thing where it hides images behind a little link thing, so it doesn't make much difference to me.

[lysana.livejournal.com]

I'm another one with the width brigade.

Re: Cut-tag photos?

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

i'm now cut-tagging all photos because of loading issues (lj's pics seem to be terminally slow at times).

other than that, width concerns me more than bandwidth. and if i never see another bad jpg again (too highly compressed) it'll be too soon.

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I don't mind if people post one photo on the main page (don't care about file size) if it's not humongous, and then put a "click here" link for the rest. I have friends who post eight or ten in one entry without a cut, though, and that's aggravating.