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Originally Posted by LSPoorEeyorick
You're right; I don't have to read anything I don't want to read-- but the concept of cross-posting rubs me the wrong way, whether it's from blog to board, or board to board, or anything else.
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To each her own, of course, but I completely disagree with you. I sometimes have things I like to share with people I only interact with here. Other times I write something I fully intend to post here and at my LJ, because not everyone I interact via the Internet frequent the same places. I can see the point of your reporter/newspaper article, but I liken cross-posting to film. Sometimes you make an independent feature you know will only reach a small and select audience, and that pleases you just fine. Other times you make a blockbuster that you want to see in wide release, for many, many people to enjoy. Same film, different audiences.
I certainly don’t post all my LoT threads to my LJ, but sometimes if it’s a little story about my day, I will share it with both because I want more people to read it and respond if they like. And I can totally see the point of cross posting a topic that’s being introduced for debate, because as others have already said, the debates will be different if discussed by various people, and I don’t know ¾’s of the people who post at MiceChat. There’s a LOT of people there, so I imagine the thread would be very differently received.