b) It's been experimentally determined that a lot of people usually don't bother to click through, so if you actually care whether anyone reads the next paragraph, a cut is counterproductive.
That said, I appreciate the folks who cut quiz memes, large images, formatting that forces horizontal scrolling on small monitors, details that they know only a small fraction of their readership is interested in and that they don't consider important to their message, spoilers, entire reprinted articles, and really lengthy chunks of fiction. Now if there were a console setting that would leave those cuts in place but disable all the others, I could maybe be convinced to grant you that point.
At least this way the folks who do want cuts-for-length can get them without everyone else having to turn off cuts-for-other-reasons to avoid them.
a) subjective. I try not to make the reader scroll to because I got exhuberant.
b) Yes it has, but I'd wager that even more people don't make it to the end of long un-cut posts. I know I'm more likely to click through than read a long un-cut one. If it's long, I don't often have the patience to sit through it. If it's short and reasonably interesting, I will.
The answer is to write your cut posts with enough of a "teaser" before the cut.
I'd love to see a feature like this wind up in LJ proper with a mod=
You declare an over-under cut theshold. Say your over-under is 20/50.
This means that Uncut posts over 20 lines get a cut generated for them. Cut posts get some slack though. 50 lines of uncut text will be displayed before it is generated.
This way you'll get a better sense of what the authors intend, rather than get everything cut at 20 and have to get an RSI to read your friends list.
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b) It's been experimentally determined that a lot of people usually don't bother to click through, so if you actually care whether anyone reads the next paragraph, a cut is counterproductive.
That said, I appreciate the folks who cut quiz memes, large images, formatting that forces horizontal scrolling on small monitors, details that they know only a small fraction of their readership is interested in and that they don't consider important to their message, spoilers, entire reprinted articles, and really lengthy chunks of fiction. Now if there were a console setting that would leave those cuts in place but disable all the others, I could maybe be convinced to grant you that point.
At least this way the folks who do want cuts-for-length can get them without everyone else having to turn off cuts-for-other-reasons to avoid them.
(no subject)
b) Yes it has, but I'd wager that even more people don't make it to the end of long un-cut posts. I know I'm more likely to click through than read a long un-cut one. If it's long, I don't often have the patience to sit through it. If it's short and reasonably interesting, I will.
The answer is to write your cut posts with enough of a "teaser" before the cut.
I'd love to see a feature like this wind up in LJ proper with a mod=
You declare an over-under cut theshold. Say your over-under is 20/50.
This means that Uncut posts over 20 lines get a cut generated for them.
Cut posts get some slack though. 50 lines of uncut text will be displayed before it is generated.
This way you'll get a better sense of what the authors intend, rather than get everything cut at 20 and have to get an RSI to read your friends list.