Should we delete insanely long postings?

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Girolamo has posted about a million words of Proust on For Lazy Proust Lovers (WARNING - Random act of online violence). Good words of course, but it strikes me as malicious when he could have simply provided a link for anyone interested. Then again, it didn't take that long to download even on my steam-driven connection, so maybe it's just not worth it. I'm not sure if we have a policy on this?

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 27 June 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm irritated with almost everything on ILX lately, but I have this to say: it *really* makes the blog view of the new answers almost impossible to read. A link would have been nice. Seriously. Or else a short question in the first post, details in the second, so that I could see a nice, concise blogged new answers screen, and only get the full text if I choose to...

But, like I said, I've got a short fuse on ILX annoyances lately. I'm on a dialup and it takes forever to download anything. :-(

― He wants to be me (kate), Sunday, 27 June 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

What Kate said. It seems so completely and relentlessly without point or merit that any reason to delete it seems to cancel the other side out.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 27 June 2004 22:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm really not interested in ILX becoming a content mirror. Quoting news articles is useful, especially when some publishers require 'free registration' to view them, but quoting massive slabs of text when a link would easily suffice is just stupid.

I've deleted such posts in the past, and will continue to do so.

― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 27 June 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

By 'deleted' I mean 'snipped out the huge slap of text'.

― Andrew (enneff), Sunday, 27 June 2004 22:55 (twenty-one years ago)

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