Why do blogs do this?

[NathanE]

I read blogs a lot. Very often I find that when I'm reading the Comments section following the main blog entry that someones comment has been cut off and there's just a few "..." in the place where the rest of their comment should be.

There is never any hyperlink like "Read more" or whatever.

There seems to be no consistency about it. Some comments will be there in full, and sometimes very long. Other times the comment will just have a couple sentences before being cut off.

It is really frustrating.

 

[NathanE]

Got an example?

http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven

See comment numbers 36 to 39. There are a few others too.

 

[NathanE]

blogs... I'll never understand them.

People set them up to their personal preference right? if it were me I'd have 250 character limit then a ajax "read more" button to drop down the rest. hate scrolling through reels of text I'm not interested in. That's why I don't read many blogs.

They're just sources of information and opinion.

In the darker ages of the Internet they were called "text files" rather than blogs.

I'm not talking about the "today I walked my dog and it was fun" type of blogs