[more inside]

July 14, 2006 7:30 PM

Sorry if this is a stupid n00b question, but I have looked and not found. What is the "more inside" code for an FPP so I can break up my post and not hog blue space? I'm working on a lengthy FPP and I don't want to be more of an ass than I usually am.
posted by persona non grata to MetaFilter-Related at 7:30 PM (18 comments total)

There isn't one for the blue. Just write everything in the box and preview it over and over. When you've got it right, cut out the "more inside", make your post, and then paste the text you cut out as the first comment in the thread.
posted by dobbs at 7:32 PM on July 14, 2006

If you want it to be a link you need to see which post # is coming up next by copying the URL of the current top post and incrementing by 1, and hope no one makes a new post in the mean time.

Just having [more inside] as text is fine, it's just one line below where everyone already knows to click on the coments to see the [inside] part.
posted by Space Coyote at 7:33 PM on July 14, 2006

Jeeeezuz you folks are quick! But I knew that already. :-) Thanks.
posted by persona non grata at 7:35 PM on July 14, 2006

No problem. Now that that's answered, let's move on to more important questions: why am I home alone on a Friday night?
posted by dobbs at 7:37 PM on July 14, 2006

So you could help a n00b? God decided that, dobbs. My FPP is up so thank you and Space Coyote. That's a nice halfhazard aspect of MeFi that I hadn't noticed as a lurker. You gotta hurry to complete your post!
posted by persona non grata at 7:45 PM on July 14, 2006

You're welcome. And to continue your education, the word is haphazard. ;)
posted by dobbs at 7:49 PM on July 14, 2006 [1 favorite]

Yup, but this cheap Italian red wine has me not caring a whit. :-)
posted by persona non grata at 7:54 PM on July 14, 2006

Wow. looks like persona non grata is being diseponysterical. Cool.

*dedicates this thread as the Mefi oldbie-newbie love thread*

Nice post, by the way.
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 8:16 PM on July 14, 2006

dobbs writes "Just write everything in the box and preview it over and over."

Safer to compose your post and MI in a text editor, you never know when the server is going to get the JRuns or something.
posted by Mitheral at 8:24 PM on July 14, 2006

that was a really nice post.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:28 PM on July 14, 2006

No problem. Now that that's answered, let's move on to more important questions: why am I home alone on a Friday night?

Warming up for that blogathon, nerdo.
posted by cortex at 8:33 PM on July 14, 2006

where are pot and kettle when you need them?
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 9:15 PM on July 14, 2006

In the kitchen.
How come your shoes are on?
posted by yerfatma at 9:23 PM on July 14, 2006

Oh no you didn't. Breeder.
posted by loquacious at 9:34 PM on July 14, 2006

That's two weeks away, cortex. Does that mean I'll be home again next Friday night? How's yer song coming?
posted by dobbs at 9:37 PM on July 14, 2006

I can't belive that it took 39000 users before we got a true "persona non grata."
posted by eyeballkid at 9:49 PM on July 14, 2006

How's yer song coming?

Splendidly. I hope to start writing it soon.
posted by cortex at 10:04 PM on July 14, 2006

I can't belive that it took 39000 users before we got a true "persona non grata."

I'm as surprised as you.

Please close this thread!
posted by persona non grata at 10:10 PM on July 14, 2006