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

[jdbakermn.livejournal.com]

Cuts are silly unless the content of the cut isn't necessary to the post. Example, a recipe for a dish that was great at a recent dinner party. I really dislike following links to get the actual post. Tirinian has done that occasionally at it's annoying.

In this case, the entire post is a book review, and if you put the reviews behind cuts, that's just silly.

Of course, I *like* book reviews, so maybe I'm biased.

Ditto

[kirisutogomen.livejournal.com]

I vote for what he said. Cuts are hyperlinks, and you use hyperlinks for hypertext, not text.