[cgk]

Excerpts annoy me. I understand when they're necessary (NYT, WashCOMpost), but for articles like this - it seems to be more out of haste to post than anything.

[walford]

An excerpt was posted to encourage people to go to the site, where there are other articles of interest. Therefore, I don't appreciate having it placed in its entirety in the discussion thread. Why use FR's bandwidth to hold an article that is already contained on another website?

[EggsAckley]

I feel the same about excerpts. If I want to look at the source for other information, I'll do it on my own, not because someone forces me to.