However – the reason I prefer partial for news and full for blogs is because of the difference in approach to writing posts.

When you write for news you construct your story like a pyramid – with the basics of the story being told within the first paragraph and the meat of the story within the first four – anything after that is just padding or extra info.

So with this you only need a partial feed as you know what the story is about within a couple of paras anyway.

Whereas with a blog post – the feature tends to be more like a book, short story or magazine feature where the article builds to a conclusion.

This is why with a blog you need a full feed to get the story and read the conclusion.

I know sploggers can be a pain in the rss but it’s as much of a fact of life of blogging as comment spam – something you’ve got to sit back and accept.

The content can always be scraped pretty much trivially anyway, the argument for full feeds is one of providing for your readers. Arguing from the angle of “I don’t want my content messed with” is occasionally a problem and frequently hypocritical.

You’ve not been a victim, then When your content has been used to promote a porn site, you might think a little differently. You become associated with bad behaviour and Like Ollie, I don’t want that. A partial feed makes it that much more obvious that it is stolen content. The copyright notice is something I tried, but eventually dropped.

Generally, I am in accord with Bill. I like partial feeds (and, yes, yours is partial in Bloglines). As a taster it sends me to the original post for a full read. I find myself skimming full feeds.

We are all different…