Phil Ringnalda asks Why do you tease me so?:

I love to hear everything you have to say. I do everything I can to be sure that I never miss a word you say, to find out what you think as soon as you want to tell me something.

I know you are beautiful. Remember, that was how you first caught my eye: you said something that caught my attention, I turned to look, and couldn't look away. I still think you are lovely. Every time you say something about a new look, I examine every detail. Whenever I say something to you, I look right at you, drinking in every detail while I speak. I don't really mind too much if you don't want me to have your pictures: just tell me when you have new ones, and I'll come over and look at them at your place. I understand, I don't mind at all.

But lately, it's started to chafe a bit, the way that you have to have everything your way. You just give me the tiniest hint about what you're thinking, and expect me to figure it out from that, and you say that if we're going to talk, it'll be at your place on your schedule, or not at all. I do what I can to accomodate you, but I've got a life and a schedule of my own, too.

So why the hell do you only give me a twenty word excerpt instead of the full post with the HTML in your RSS feed?

I'll tell you why. Laziness. Okay, not quite laziness. At least with Movable Type, the problem lies with the default setup. It is one of the few things that bugged the crap out of me with Movable Type. All the RSS feeds only have excerpts. I quickly went through and put in an RSS 2.0 template that had the full articles (and other RSS 2.0 goodness like links to the comments). The problem is that lots of people out there just don't know enough about all this to easily go and tweak it. I've really only just started seeing more and more mention of RSS over on places like ScriptyGoddess.com. I wonder if we can hope to see better support for this stuff in MT in the future.