A poll on LJ-cuts that's LJ-cut.

[ambitious_wench]

[Poll #238903]

For perspective, take a look at this entry:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/theferrett/215473.html

Comments

[ambitious-wench.livejournal.com]

I like you too, Yonmei! I've come to view you as a sort of long-lost cousin in Scotland.

Edie

[yonmei.livejournal.com]

Could be! ;-)

[jupiterjuniper.livejournal.com]

after reading theferrett's comments, and furthermore on someone elses journal, i realize that i don't feel strongly enough about lj-cuts to pick an answer.

i believe that anything not work-safe [moreso images because they're "readable" at a much further distance, and much faster] should be lj-cut, for courtesy. i know vintage_sex has a lot of talk about this.

generally, an lj-cut to me means it's either MORE important, or MORE in depth, than a typical post. depending on how much time i have to read/reply, i either skip [based more on subject, user, or time restraints] OR read fully. i personally cut everything but the first picture [even non-not-work-safe images], and any long, involving entry that may not appeal to everyone.

[panacea1.livejournal.com]

I usually cut: a) things that are not-work-friendly and b) things that run on for more than one screen. And sometimes c) other stuff that suits me.

I prefer that other people cut: large images (especially those wide enough to cause me to have to H-scroll) and long URLs (for the same reason) and long, involved entries that I'm going to come back to later.

Except - several people on my friends' list use stylesheets that are incompatible with the browser I'm using, and when they LJ-cut, I can't read their entries at all without copy-pasting into another window and mentally parsing the HTML code with all the cute little images. If I stopped commenting in your journal when you changed style sheets, this is probably why.

*growls about backwards-compatibility*

[deor.livejournal.com]

Except - several people on my friends' list use stylesheets that are incompatible with the browser I'm using,

<mode="smug">This is why I like Opera. If I can't read a particular stylesheet comfortably - usually because someone chose absolute font sizes smaller than I can comfortably read - I can just switch to browser style sheet with one click.</mode>