On cut-tags

[figmo]

I've been admittedly using them less lately.

I like them for memes and went back and added them to one meme.

I dislike them for posts about what's happening with folks because it's an extra click I have to make to see what's going on with them.

Just my $0.02.

Comments

Re: Cut-tags depend on the situation

[keristor.livejournal.com]

For me the limited functionality of cut-tags is not so minor. There are many times where I don't want to see the rest (or at least not at that time), and I have wanted to do a post (OK, a rant) which needed multiple levels of cutting (rant summary, and "only go here if you are really prepared to deal with nastyness"). The same with squickness, someone could post with several cut-tags allowing those who wanted to skip to do so, those who wanted an overview to look at that without the details etc.

If I find a post which is too long when I'm skimming, I'll likely skip it altogether and then not go back. Whereas if it is sensibly cut-tagged (not all of it but enough so I can see what it's about) I can mentally mark it (or even open it if I think it's important).

This would be made easier if another feature someone mentioned were implemented, "expand all cut-tags by default", as a switch. Then you could see everything always expanded and I could click on them as I wanted to do so.