dba_afish said:
I feel like most of the time you see a "read more" or similar button at the end of a partial bit of text it expands out on the current page.

I second this. I haven't personally seen cases where "read more" with obstructed text leads to a new page instead of expanding it, it may be more common on other places like news sites or the like (I don't really frequent those). But yeah, when I clicked that button on e6, I expected the text to be revealed in full just like how it works on YouTube.

I guess what could potentially solve this issue is by making "read more" more obvious as a link and and not covering the text like it can be revealed, maybe by cutting it off with ellipsis instead.