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

[mijven.livejournal.com]

I tend to cut for other people, in part because of the long-ish factor but mostly because I'm ranting about something stupid or rambling on about the kids which I assume is something not everyone wants to read about.

That said, I do think it's silly to have cuts. :) Unless it's an icon community like fireflicons where people put "how I did this" and full songs of lyrics used behind the cuts.

[mijven.livejournal.com]

Oh wait - I should have posted the above with my new, firefly inspired, icon! ;)