I’m getting faintly irritated with the number of blogs I follow that post screencaps of their replies.
It just seems like a bizarre decision. It must take more effort than copy/pasting, surely? You’ve got to screencap it and then upload the screencap and then remember to get rid of the useless photos on your hard drive, instead of just doing a couple basic keystrokes (and possibly clicking “update HTML” to get rid of autoformat, if you’re like me and a bit twitchy about such things).
Furthermore, it’s a) needlessly inaccessible, b) often difficult to read even for those of us not on screenreaders, and c) fails to provide a link back to the original post, which c/ping does automatically and is often necessary for retrieving context if said post has already slid off the dashboard (as they generally have by the time replies are being answered).
I just don’t understand what drives people to do it and I’d really appreciate it if they’d reconsider, especially because it takes very little effort to change. I’ve gotten to the point where I scroll straight past most posts with a reply screencap at the top, since they’re basically a big flashing sign saying “this is going to take too much effort”.
Relatively few of the blogs do this, actually, but this is still a good rundown of some reasons to reconsider.
Or if you do it, at least consider typing out a transcript of what was said?
