Question for Discussion...

[freetrav]

As you probably know, Livejournal allows you to append ?style=mine or &style=mine to a LJ URL. Doing so causes the LJ page to be displayed in the style of the viewer's LJ (if the page admits of having user styles applied). This may (probably will) be different from the style that the page's author (i.e., the owner of the LJ) chose to present his/her journal in.

Question the first

: How do you feel about using this when you are viewing someone else's LJ? Why do you chose to do it?

Question the second

: How do you feel about others using this when they view your LJ? Why?

This is deliberately not a poll, just an open question; comment and discussion is invited.

Comments

[pauamma]

I don't usually do it on others' journals as such (as in, http://freetrav.livejournal.com/), because when I look at someone's journal, it's more often than not to troubleshoot something, and I need to view it as they would. (I will do it, however, if I'm reading someone's journal for content and their own style makes it hard to read for me.) I did, however, set my viewing options to append it automatically to links to individual journal entries from my friends page. I have no qualms against doing either.

As to others applying their own style to my journal? I couldn't care less, and my style is definitely unadorned (I don't even bother to specify an icon, a mood, a music, or a location to my entries), so it's not like they would be *removing* elements of my design, because there's nothing to remove.