I couldn't vote on the poll, but put me down as a "use extended entry link." Especially for Graves' and Mudede's nonsensical ravings about visual theory, the personality of architecture, poetics, existential philosophy, vagina-themed art, and etc.

I'm sorry, I stopped reading after the word "divided." What was the question?

They're just fine the way they are. Don't mess with a good thing.

About 20-25 lines, then go to extended.

I'm for the "continue reading" links, for sure.

if it ain't broke, don't fix it.

It is broke.
You need to re-format the whole slog.
Posts slide off the bottom far too quickly as if you all have JADD (journalist attention deficit disorder.)
You need a format more like Arts & Letters Daily. (Google it.)

All I ask is tha Charles keep his incoherent blatherings down to only a few thousand words.

The length is great- I hate clicking on things and having another entry in my company's internet log. But it would be nice if the main slog page didn't have a hundred thousand ten posts. I would be in favor of hiding youtube objects and those super gay pictures dan posts underneath a jump thing.

SmartFilter blocks the slog comments, but not the slog. Maybe if you had a continued function you could include the comments with the post.

I think it depends on a number of things. I read the slog on my laptop mostly, and it has a 14" screen @ 1024 x 768 resolution. I'd really like the entire post to only fill one screen, so that stands at about 25 lines. I'll scroll down a bit, but something that goes 75+ lines needs a jump.

Zach's on the right track: It's all about the scrolling. I say "two-clicks max." If you have to click three times to scroll through the entire post, it's too long, and the author should have used the "continue reading" option.