The other issue with auto-cuts is that any default cut text is likely to be 
uninformative, if it starts from the beginning of a post. There are one or two 
people of my acquaintance who cut almost everything they post with the same 
nondescriptive text, and that is not inviting to readers.

Maybe an auto-cut would work if it cut anything after the third paragraph, like 
posts on blog sites often do? "Click to continue" or "More after the cut" or 
the like?

Technically speaking, though, it wouldn't make much sense to start cutting 
based on line breaks, because the three "paragraphs" I've just made are 
certainly no sort of lengthy screed. Perhaps an auto-cut after X characters 
would work (cutting at the next word break)?


Alexis Carpenter
principia at Dreamwidth
principia_coh at LiveJournal


----- Jackie Lee wrote:

| Images I could see, or quizzes, but a limit on more than three paragraphs?  I 
personally feel like the LJ/Dreamwidth is for text.  If people aren't 
interested in what I have to say, however long-winded I might be, then all they 
need to do is take me off their read-list.  I wouldn't want my text cut off of 
my friends' read lists just because it happened to contain more than three 
paragraphs!


| 
---
mystickeeper



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