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Mx. Aria Stewart

@dx Cosigning this so hard. I lose my place completely and it's among the most intrusive things people do to text.

Alex

@dx ok first off how dare you also I agree

pasta la vida

@dx "I have to find where in the article this is said in context, instead of it just being in bold"

Rich Felker

@dx Even better when there is a subtle difference in the pull quote... ๐Ÿคฌ

Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:

@dx agree! On my blog I have paragraphs with an outline, a bigger font and a different color, but they are just part of the text.

Joshua A.C. Newman

@dx
In my publications, I put โ€œpull quotesโ€ inline so you read them as you go.

europlus :autisminf:

@dx @rgb except at abc.net.au, where you have to read them to read the whole article.

Not sure which I hate more: the convention, or one worthy site going against it.

Sandhu

@dx I have trained myself to ignore them.

Geoff Mackenzie

@dx agree 100%. By the way, there is a typo near the start of the alt text. Well, not exactly a typo, looks more like a steno mis-stroke or (maybe more likely) speech to text error?

ChalkLlate

This is my tiny
"This is my tiny hill I will die on."
- @dx

hill I will die on.

Transdisiplinรครคriseksi

@dx this is the reason why my mind has learned to skip all pull quotes.

but then sometimes pull quotes actually contain information that is not mentioned in the body text, and then i miss it completely.

you lose both ways, i hate them.

hanntac

@dx joke's on you, counting the alt text I read it thrice

Kat

@dx Doubly so when it's the headline, so you wind up reading the same sentence three times.
Unless it's on DW, in which case they insist on making it four times, just to be certain.

Like, I got the idea the first time I read it. Is there any more information to go with it, or are you just padding out column-inches here?

fedops ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿ’›

@dx thank you for giving these horrible things a name. I hate having these things break up the text. Especially since they tend to be xits (is that what tweets are called these days?), giving away poor source selection.

Jack

@dx Yeah, I hate this.

I think maybe they work if they're SUFFICIENTLY pulled they look like part of the global layout not part of the flow of that part of the story

Calyo Delphi

@dx OH SO THAT'S WHAT THOSE THINGS ARE CALLED

Yes, they're fricking insufferable because of the unnecessary repetition and redundancy. >..>

mercurial thingy

@dx@social.ridetrans.it rightt if you want to emphasize it just, idk, make the actual thing itself much bigger?

jn

@dx i do think they can be done well (i.e. a lot unlike the example provided), but quite frequently they are exactly as terrible as the example, so i completely agree

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