I've been thinking the exact same thing for years and couldn't put it into words.
The most annoying thing is I can never be sure whether the BIG TEXT CHOPPED-OUT is actually going to be repeated again later in the article. Otherwise I'd just happily ignore those big sections every single time. As it is now, I have to read it and then get mad when moments later I find myself reading the exact same thing. I wish there was a way to stop this.
The most annoying thing is I can never be sure whether the BIG TEXT CHOPPED-OUT is actually going to be repeated again later in the article. Otherwise I'd just happily ignore those big sections every single time. As it is now, I have to read it and then get mad when moments later I find myself reading the exact same thing. I wish there was a way to stop this.
edit: Thanks to those commenters who mentioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pull_quote - It's nice to be able to properly refer to that which I despise.