Why do blogs do this?

NathanE

NathanE

NathanE

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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.
 
If a blog links to another blog, it leaves a comment on there automatically if it's set up. It should have a link to their website if you click the commenter's name or something.
I might be thinking of something else though.
 
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.
 
codec said:
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.
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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 :p
 
NathanE said:
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.
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It's an assumption that you know the rest.

I do it a lot.

IE, i assume that if you can't fill in the blanks you are an idiot.

Not being personel just telling you as it is.
 
NathanE said:
http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/rest-apis-must-be-hypertext-driven

See comment numbers 36 to 39. There are a few others too.
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yhack said:
If a blog links to another blog, it leaves a comment on there automatically if it's set up. It should have a link to their website if you click the commenter's name or something.
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Yeah, this is why.
When a blog links to another blog, it 'pings' the blog and adds a comment linking back to the blog with the link.
It's pretty good because you can find similar blogs from this.
 
moremoney said:
It's an assumption that you know the rest.

I do it a lot.

IE, i assume that if you can't fill in the blanks you are an idiot.

Not being personel just telling you as it is.
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Getting RESTive : business|bytes|genes|molecules says:
October 25, 2008 at 11:27 pm

[...] words come from the man who put REST on the map, one Roy Fielding in a bit of a rant against what people call REST today. The post is worth reading for anyone who is into the REST architecture (or [...]
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what comes next then genius?
 
moremoney said:
Does tefal get an email everytime i post?

Why does he hate me so much?.
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You think far too much of yourself if you think I hate you.


But you assumed anyone who couldn't fill in the rest of the posts an idiot so i wanted to see if you could :)
 
isnt this due to the text limit ?

the comment will have a 100 character limit (or whatever)

so when the commenter gets past this, it just cuts it off with ... ?
 
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