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Sorry about that last post. I pasted in the excerpts and then realized that even those were too long, so I put them behind a cut tag.

I know some folks hate cut tags. Moreover, it seems remarkably awkward to have a cut to excerpts *and* a link to the full article. I'm not really satisfied with the result, particularly as a rather sharp observation on gender and conversation is now hidden behind the cut.

Feh.

Edit: Aaargh. Actually, that observation is the second cut tag. What's now hidden is the hilarious conversation between the writer and Stefan Alfsson, an ex-trawler captain, ex-banker.

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well, i read it

Thanks. It's good to know I'm not driving *everyone* away with my fumbling. :)

People hate cut tags?

Yes.

I mean, given most any imaginable thing, you can find someone who hates it; conversely, you can also find someone who loves it...but in the case of cut tags, I have heard from various readers who really, really dislike them, so I try not to use them very much.

Then there are cases like this, where my excerpts are way too long.

Odd.
I'm relatively fond of them as a mechanism for concealing the bulk of a long post... say, posting a paragraph or two, followed by a cut.

If one has a slow connection and relatively high click-through overhead, cut-tags are a pain -- it's preferable to have all the content load at once.

It's not an issue for me anymore, but at my old job it was -- slow connection + a browser without tabs made cut-tags a pain. It made me pretty cranky when people would insist they were the only polite choice.

Again, no longer an issue for me -- tabbed browsing changes everything. But it was really annoying.

That makes sense.

Me, I'd be lost without the Firefox add-on "Livejournal Addons", which has a cut-tag expander (along with "Instant Comment").

I love those so much that I'm ignoring even trying Safari 4 because I won't work without those.

That's stunning to me. I prefer them so enormously that I find it difficult to imagine feeling differently.

Good to know.

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I use the comment link to send long posts to a new tab.

I use the cut-tag link to send a cut post to a new tab.

Pretty much anything I'm interested in dealing with in some way other than a quick read is sent to a new tab.

If I had no tabs, I'd use new windows.

Gosh, I HATE the lack of cut tags. And I have slow internet, too.

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