- Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering?
- Uh, I think so Brain, but we'll never get a gorilla to wear trowsers!

I have been doing some podering of myself. Wouldn't it be cleaner if only the 1st paragraph of SOPW showed up? Sometimes fellow monks will post questions with code that are not of my particular interest, and I have to scroll through the post to get to the next one. No problem there, I'm not THAT lazy, but I only tend to look at the SOPW main page searching for a topic of my interest. If I like it, I'll enter and read what others had to say, and perhaps post something of my own.

If we all share this common behavior, I beleive that it would be more efficient to have only a descriptive first paragraph and more about the topic in its node page, á la /.'s read more. By using a similar method, we could have a clearer, more concise, easier loading SOPW (and other nodes even, if it becomes convinient)!

So now you have read this, and still have no idea of why I posted a P&TB quote? Since its the 1st paragraph, its a perfectly good example of what not to do. And I think Brain is sexy... :)

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