On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Rachel Lee Cherry wrote:

> [significant snippage ahead]
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Azalais Aranxta <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Even if this [an automatic cut] is a reader option?
>
> If I cared about my readers, yes. Even if an auto-inserted cut is only an
> option, I need to write to that, because that's how some of my readers are
> going to see the post.

...I think you need to consider that people are going to stop
reading after the third paragraph if you haven't grabbed them by
then, regardless of how the content is served, but that's totally
off topic for this list.

> Which is why I'm in favor of the collapse option over the auto-cut option.

I don't see them necessarily as either/or.

> Not to mention the fact that a paragraph limit or a character
> limit might auto-cut a post with outside-the-cut descriptions
> earlier than the writer hirself actually added a cut!

Only if the limit was ridiculously small.

> What makes a 140-character limit a joke and not a 3-paragraph limit?

Logic.  Usability.

*shrug*
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