Minor nuisances....

[kyrielle]

I'm really not pleased with that new LJ toolbar. Largely because it allows people to "enforce" it on their journal. I find it annoying and useless and a waste of space on my small laptop monitor, but when I go to read what's behind the cut-tag, there it is. It's clutter, like an ad-bar, not useful, to me.

So I'm curious, since some of my friends are doing this. I understand why people would want to turn the bar on for themselves as they browse the site - it's useful to them. But why is it an option, and why have some of the people I read chosen to use that option, to force the rest of us to see the aggravating thing? What is the goal? Because I really don't understand what the benefit is to you, to have that bar up there for others.

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[kyrielle]

Yeah, I realize they use it for that. But that's not what it's called and it still confuses me after all this time - it has to be even worse for newbies to try to find those things. Putting the two together just seems to make very little sense to me. I'm sure it'll stay there and I'll have to cope, I just find it illogical.

And no, you don't have the bar on yours for anyone else. I can see why someone might like the bar - I don't, but I can see why some would. I just can't yet figure out why anyone would want to force it on all visitors to their journal.... I'm trying to figure out what they gain by doing that. *wry*