Recently there seem to have been a number of nodes posted that contained much code (good!) and were very interesting (good!) and got front-paged (of course!) and because of their length made it kind of hard to skim over the Monastery Gates to see what was going on in Poetry and Obfu (oops). The same problem (more or less) arises in some of the other sections, too, generally when somebody (frequently AM) submits a node with lots of code and no <READMORE> tag.
This suggests an obvious solution: if a node is over a certain length (not necessarily very long) and contains no <readmore>, the Preview page could contain a note saying "By the way, this is fairly long, you should add this tag" or some other somewhat more lucid explanation of the uses of the tag.
For extra points, one could require the tag before submission was accepted (not so good, I think) or simply automatically insert one in what seems to be an appropriate place on submission if there isn't one already.
This might, of course, get annoying for the more experienced monks (especially if the size limit was less than they thought it should be), so perhaps that aspect should be limited to Anonymonk postings. But I think a "this is long, consider a <readmore>" reminder wouldn't impose too much of a burden on the author, and might actually be considered helpful by some somewhat prolix types. :-)
What say my fellow monks?
In reply to Auto-READMORE feature? by ChemBoy
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