Yeah, I agree.
I was going to post something about this a while back,
but the server died or a router puked and I never
got around to it.
My thought was to add a User Setting for the max
number of characters shown for each node listed on
the section indices/home pages. I prefer keeping this
sort of control in the hands of the reader; a lot of
SOPW posts don't even have descriptive titles, and I'd
hate to think what those same posts would have for
a "concise" (á la Ozymandias' idea) question.
But then I suppose there could be a problem with
closing HTML tags....
Well, at any rate, put me down for "Yes, I would
like a way to shorten index listings."