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[pizza.maircrosoft.com (from livejournal.com)]

I load LJ often enough that I might skim different bits of it over the course of however long it takes to go off the bottom of the page. I'm unlikely to read the whole thing unless it captures my attention somehow, and if it's long enough to make scrolling past annoying, I might comment if I'm talking with the person - probably not on the post itself.

[pm215]

[X] comment complaining about lack of lj-cut tag
[X] throw it in a tab to read later anyhow

[simont]

[X] Read it anyway because work is really boring that day

For a long textual post I'll either skip it or read it; content-free "tl;dr" might on occasion be useful for hinting to a particularly wordy poster that they should try in general to be less verbose, but in that situation someone else usually posts it anyway...

If it's a video, or some other highly media-intensive presentation, I might go as far as asking for a summary to give me an idea of how long it is, what it's about, and generally giving enough information to decide whether I want to watch it.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Depends on the content. If it's light entertainment what-I-did-on-my-holidays/look-at-the-clever-math I'd be inclined to skip it; if it's about some major life event I'd read it.

[songster.livejournal.com]

Read as much of it as I can be bothered to, skip to the final sentence and read that. And then launch fearlessly into the subsequent discussion because hey, who needs to [i]read[/i] what the other person's saying in order to rebut them?

[lnr]

Too long text is fine, I'll skim or skip. Loads of images is less so, they might be good to see once but you don't necessarily want to scroll past the several times while looking for comments. Too *wide* is much more irritating. Though not quite irritating enough to take Simon's approach and fiddle with LJ styles enough to solve the problem, because I don't understand them.