use of the LJ cut

Here's how I feel the LJ cut should be used.

• Out of consideration for those with dialup, please use the cut whenever showing more than one or two pictures.
  
• Place adult photos and other non-worksafe material behind the cut. Breaking this rule is the one sure way to get yourself removed from firends lists.
  
• Please use the cut for extremely long entries.
  
• Feel free to use the cut whenever you have something to say that you don't care if anyone reads.
  
• It may be polite to use the cut if you have something to say that you think the majority of people don't care to read.
  
• Enough people care not to read quiz results that it is polite to cut them. And they're pictures, so it's also a bandwidth thing.

These are my opinions, but I think they're the most widely acccepted techniques. Other people have made recommendations for other things to be cut, but personally, I don't have a problem scrolling by things I don't want to read.

Keep in mind also, that when LJ is behaving badly, there is a good chance that people won't or won't be able to read what's behind your cut.

The code for the cut is <lj-cut>. The cut text will say, "read more." If you wish to change the text, use, <lj-cut text="your text">

There is a tag for ending the cut. This is </lj-cut>. This is for when you want to have only the middle part of your post not displayed on people's friends pages, rather than just the end.