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[which_chick]

Because I am the sort of pedantic shit who does things like read the FAQ, I humbly (yeah, right) offer the following, ripped directly out of the FAQ:

LJ-CUT
This can be used in a journal entry to hide all or part of an entry. When the entry appears in your journal or on someone's Friends page, everything after an lj-cut tag and before a closing tag will be replaced by a link to the Read Comments page. The Read Comments page always displays the entire entry and any comments made on it.

Right. A close reading (and I've determined through years of FAQ reading that a close reading is the best kind -- you can get a lot more out of the FAQ that way, especially if it's a well-written one) of this snippet of FAQ, particularly the line The Read Comments page always displays the entire entry and any comments made on it. should lead us to the not-entirely-intuitive (the intuitive option would be what sara_merry99 expected to have happen) conclusion that one may not place a cut tag on the comments page. See, a cut tag is supposed to hide stuff until you GET to the comments page, whereupon you get everything the cut tag was hiding. It is NOT an endlessly recursive thing, this lj-cut feature. It works once, to hide stuff from the main page, and that's all it does.

Hope that this clarifies any lingering confusion without making anyone want to bash my head in with a two-by-four. That's such a fine line...

Comments

[sara-merry99.livejournal.com]

Ah! I just read enough to figure out how to do it! :) Well, all right then. So is there any way to sort of hide what you're saying in comments page?

[which-chick.livejournal.com]

There's always Rot13 (http://retards.org/projects/rot13/). That should stop all casual non-geeky readers. I don't personally know anyone who reads Rot13 on the fly, but gung qbrfa'g zrna fbzrbar bhg gurer vfa'g qbvat vg. Gur jbeyq vf shyy bs trrxl crbcyr.

[not-your-real.livejournal.com]

There's also the old "white text on white background" trick, which works only for folks with normal graphical browsers, and lets them display the hidden text simply by highlighting it with the mouse.