To Cut or Not To Cut?

[firstfrost]

My book reviews, in general, are longish. It seems moderately common to put the entirety of such things behind a lj-cut, presumably to be polite, and I've done that in the past, too.

On the other hand, I'd rather just read everything in one friends view and not have to follow a bunch of links, so I end up deciding not to cut, more often than not. Is this differently irritating, to have a big long chunk of text that you have to read or skip? (but really, why does anyone read live journals at all if they don't want to read the text?)

Comments

[chenoameg.livejournal.com]

Currently I go back to my friends page occasionally to see if there are new comments on to a message I had commented on. In that case it's easier to scroll through the whole page if there aren't really long posts.

On the other hand, I always do click on the lj-cuts, so you make a good point.