Rollover preview (mild)

If you’re starting a thread, please remember that along with a descriptive thread title, the second most important thing is to have the beginning of the post, the part that will be visible in preview, give us a better idea what the thread will be about. This is especially true if the title was deliberately ambiguous for the sake of wit or a pun. (thread title: “My Cock”; thread message: “My bantam rooster, Joe…”)

Two things that are a complete waste of rollover:
putting a long, long link address in first (e.g. “[noparse]Longwinded.com might be for sale. Request the price today.”[/noparse])
And an uninformative preamble (e.g. “I decided to finally post about something that I’ve been thinking about for a long time, but wasn’t sure if I wanted to get into it because it’s really hard to explain but it isn’t that I don’t want to talk about it it’s just that if you really think about it you sometimes wonder if it’s all just in your head. Anyway…”)

Don’t mind me, just coming in to see what the fuss is about. I couldn’t tell from the preview.

Good point, Lumpy. Also, if you want to avoid a rollover spoiler, don’t put in a lot of empty lines; just make a second post.

I’m in here and still can’t tell what this is all about!

I think it’s about a new kind of salsa inspired by predictions of top-heavy SUVs. Weird, I know.

Or, encase your first post in brackets. Then there won’t be a mouse over preview at all.