The warning seems easy enough to implement, but I wonder how many people would actually see it--unless it was presented in an annoying fashion (which could itself be problematic).

I'm not certain it would be easy to devise a workable way to automatically add <READMORE> tags. Sure, you could do it after the first couple of paragraphs, but you might not have a set of paragraphs in a row. Also, there are stylistic differences in posting. For example, I'm pretty careful to close my <P> tags (and I notice that you appear to be pretty careful in your use as well), but not every one does this. For example, a certain monk initially posted his (assumption) nodes initially posted using a fixed type style (e.g. <PRE>, <TT>, and so on). A simple count of paragraphs would not be sufficient for his nodes.

Put another way, the easiest nodes to automatically parse for appropriate <READMORE> tags are probably not the ones that need them.

So I vote for considering the warning, but not the automatic inclusion (unless we can determine a set of simple rules that will catch most of the problems).

In the mean time, you can always /msg the CB (or a janitor) if you see a node that might benefit from a well-placed <READMORE> tag.

--f