Alert blog-readers may have noticed that many blogs, including this one, use a “cut” or “more” tag on longer posts, so that only the first few paragraphs show on the main page, and to read the full story one needs to click on a link that usually says “continued” or “read more”. The text used to anchor such more-links is fully customisable according to a webmaster’s whims.
On Shakesville, they have a few playful habits, one of which is having their posts on the main page use a “more” link which says “Open Wide” to read the full post, and then a link at the end of the opened version which reads “Shut Up!” so that the article can be closed to the shorter version again, with the web-browser remaining on the main-page the whole time. (This is different from the way that more-links work on this blog, which is to take the reader’s web-browser to a separate single-post page. ) That more-link/close-link pair appears on every long post that a Shakesville author wants it to appear on, but it does not appear on every single article there.
So how does an experienced blogger like Glenn Sacks quote “Open Wide…Shut Up!” in his post about one of Melissa McEwan’s article as if those words were actually part of her post instead of part of the blog’s main-page architecture?
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