Quickie question...

[ash48]

Do you think having a graphic, as in a banner, enhances a fic or vid post? Do you think a banner makes a difference as to whether you would read or watch something?

Just curious..

Also. Not sure why. Lost and Gillian's Island. Just a thought.

Oooh and an art rec while I'm here: The Dicks It's ok. It's safe for work. :D It's fab art of the angels in SPN. Love it.

Comments

[barkley.livejournal.com]

I do not like them for vids. They are just cluttering up my flist since I have all graphics over a certain size turned off. It's especially bad if the only link to the vid is in the banner because I can't click that right from my flist (that will just take me to the plain picture.) And to make me go through an extra click is extra annoying. *g*

For fic, I tend to click on everything in the newsletter anyway (and have very few fic communities on my flist) so I get the full size banner right away. Once it made me read a story because the summary sounded stupid, but the banner put a different image to the characters than the summary implied to me.

[ash48.livejournal.com]

Hi. That's interesting. I didn't know you could turn certain sized graphics off. And yes I can see how that would be an issue for banner only links.

A few people have mentioned "not for vids", but "yes for fic". Hmm...

I don't mind a small banner for either, but those really big graphics can get annoying, especially if they've been posted to a number of communities at once.

Thanks for your input.

(Hee! Icon. That's funny - I spent a while the other day looking for footage of that very scene on YT. It was the song I was after - still didn't manage to find it),

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