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As to why I've never cut them, it's down to poverty and the difference between 3-a-side and 6-a-side headstocks. Back in my impoverished gigging days I kept all my old strings as spares. If you cut a top e-string on a 3-a-side, there's no way it will stretch to the tuning head on a 6-a-side.
These days, it's puely down to habit that I do this.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
Unfortunately during a rehearsal his amp was not wired/earthed properly and as as he came close to me, I has the dubious pleasure of getting belted with an electric shock through the face as one of his errant strings brushed my cheek... My only solace was that he too was on the receiving end as the path to ground was made.
Vintage v400mh mahogany topped dreadnought acoustic FS - £100
My 69 strat has split posts where you insert the end into a hole...really intelligent design. I wish all non locking machine heads were made with that design, especially staggered posts where the short post makes it particularly awkward to wrap and thread the string through.
Leave them flailing and you'll have someone's bloody eye out and rightly be in line for a kicking if you do.
Cut them.
For Fender players Kluson style split post tuners are your friend for keeping the jagged end tucked away.