Third (and this may be just me), I keep wanting to use cut-tags for tangents, footnotes, digressions, parenthetical explanations, and "I wanted to make it look like I could be concise but I really wanted to say these other things as well" games.
Yeah, that's just you. :) I think LJ cuts are terrible for all those things.
The IMNSHO right way to use cuts is part-way through. If you're going to write a long post, have enough to have a hook, then cut away, and people who want to read the rest can, without having it flood their friends page. That solves most of the problems you're talking about.
Using it for anything where people might want to jump back into the flow is bad. If you want to make parantheticals and sidebars etc, learn to abuse the orthography like the rest of us. :)
"I think LJ cuts are terrible for all those things."
So do I; I really want the right tool for those to exist.
Hmm ... enough for a hook then cut away and let the reader decide whether to read the rest ... yes, I've seen that done, and it didn't register as something I needed to remember for this entry because it didn't seem wrong. Whoops. Yes, I should have mentioned that as an effective use of cuts.
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Yeah, that's just you. :) I think LJ cuts are terrible for all those things.
The IMNSHO right way to use cuts is part-way through. If you're going to write a long post, have enough to have a hook, then cut away, and people who want to read the rest can, without having it flood their friends page. That solves most of the problems you're talking about.
Using it for anything where people might want to jump back into the flow is bad. If you want to make parantheticals and sidebars etc, learn to abuse the orthography like the rest of us. :)
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So do I; I really want the right tool for those to exist.
Hmm ... enough for a hook then cut away and let the reader decide whether to read the rest ... yes, I've seen that done, and it didn't register as something I needed to remember for this entry because it didn't seem wrong. Whoops. Yes, I should have mentioned that as an effective use of cuts.