(I didn’t downvote, but here’s a guess) I enjoyed what there was of it, but I got really irritated by “This is not the full post—for the rest of it, including an in-depth discussion of the evidence for and against each of these theories, you can find the full version of this post on my blog”. I don’t know why this bothers me—maybe because I pay some attention to the “time to read” tag at the top, or because having to click through to a different page feels like an annoyance with no benefit to me.
I think this would have been mitigated by something at the beginning saying “this is an excerpt of x words of a y word post located at url”, so I can decide at the outset to read here, read there, or skip.
Is the reason you didn’t put the entire thing here basically blog traffic numbers?
(I didn’t downvote, but here’s a guess) I enjoyed what there was of it, but I got really irritated by “This is not the full post—for the rest of it, including an in-depth discussion of the evidence for and against each of these theories, you can find the full version of this post on my blog”. I don’t know why this bothers me—maybe because I pay some attention to the “time to read” tag at the top, or because having to click through to a different page feels like an annoyance with no benefit to me.
Thanks for letting me know
Glad to, thanks for taking it well.
I think this would have been mitigated by something at the beginning saying “this is an excerpt of x words of a y word post located at url”, so I can decide at the outset to read here, read there, or skip.
Is the reason you didn’t put the entire thing here basically blog traffic numbers?
At the top it says it’s a link post and links to the full post, I thought that would make it clear that it’s a link post not a full post.
It’s difficult to keep three versions in sync as I fix typos and correct mistakes, which is why I prefer to not have three separate full versions.
That’s fair. I guess I’m used to linkposts which are either full, or a short enough excerpt that I can immediately see they aren’t full.