Another thing that I hate is sites that limit the size of the image in their feed. Often, I use the image as a quick way of determining if I’ll be interested in the post, so when I can’t see the image, and I have to judge based on reading each headline, it makes me want to unsubscribe almost as much as a partial.

Thanks for the reminder though; It is about time to do a RSS Spring Cleaning! [Webomatica is staying ]

Ads in the feed are also rather annoying. And the partial feed situation make the ads even more glaringly obvious.

Phil – It seemed like a good idea at the time I might reconsider my last hastily decided-up0n rule. Maybe I’ll up it to 6 months rather than two. In any even it doesn’t seem like my big problem is people posting too little, it’s too much senseless stuff.

My tip would be, if you use a home page like iGoogle, is have the news items coming into widgets on there. You never have to read them, they don’t build up, but they are all at your disposal and available every time you open up your browser so you’re not out of the loop.

It’s definitely a good idea to have rules for your feeds too, though wiping out ones that don’t post doesn’t seem that great. They’re not getting in your way by being there, but they may return with even better content than when you subscribed.

Like you I really dislike partial feeds and while I realize that they are being provided free I still feel like I am being connec or ripped off. What is even worse though regardless of full or partial feeds are those bloggers who post one line posts and the ads take up more space than the useless tidbit we are bing tossed. They might just as well say “We’re posting something useless just so we can get the ad traffic”

Yup .. time to go through and do some cleaning .. but unfortunately with the revamp of Braincell Soup almost done I’ll probably be adding as many as I get rid of LOL