Why I dislike long posts

[Toasty]

The only "long posts" I read are Vrylakas' posts, because I know they're worth my while.

 

[Cilpot]

Originally posted by Toasty
The only "long posts" I read are Vrylakas' posts, because I know they're worth my while.

Agreed. Though I'd like to add Fred to that list.. And also the posts by Sultan Bhargash.

 

[nihilistic]

Originally posted by Pontiuth Pilate
Well, I suppose my recent post in the Better Economy thread is an offender against the short-post feeling:

http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?postid=1418822#post1418822

But on the upside, it's well worth reading!

Oh yes, I wanted to mention this for a while now. The quotes you include in your posts are quite difficult to read. The italic font isn't always ludic, and someitmes it is quite difficult to tell whether you are trying to empasize something or you are quoting something.

 

[Eastern Knight]

Originally posted by Toasty
The only "long posts" I read are Vrylakas' posts, because I know they're worth my while.

Tru.

All the other long posts (most of them) are just a waste of time to read.

 

[Superevie]

I'm sooo sick of very long posts. I start reading them, but they are so boring I don't finish. They just ramble on and on and on like I'm doing right now. It doesn't make the poster smarter or more interesting...just more verbose.

 

[funxus]

I seldom read long posts, unless I continue with the posts after and they all contain -remarks referring to the long post.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

I also dislike long posts, for many of the reasons mentioned above. Why is it that some people feel that the more words they add to a post, the more informative it is? It is entirely possible to comunicate an idea with one or two sentances without droning on and on and on ad nauseum, repeating the same things over and over and over again barely pausing to include proper punctuation in their urgency to vomit words all over the screens of countless numbers of people who most likely do not even have an attention span of sufficient length to properly peruse a menu in a fast food outlet that purveys such mundane common everyday items such as hamburgers and french fries and soft drinks when simply glancing at the aforementioned menu would be all that is necessary to instantly digest and absorb all the information found therein because all of us already know perfectly well what sorts of comestibles are available in this type of establishment, having been subject to many visits over the course of our lives which are much to short to waste time on such meaningless claptrap that it boggles the mind that anyone would be so shortsighted to even ponder such an absurd notion with a straight face and avoid laughing hysterically until people became concerned and summoned a doctor who know doubt inject some sort of opiate into ones system so that the gales of insane laughter would finally cease and one wouild collapse into a quivering heap sobbing and sobbing till repeated smacks in the face were required to end the interminable horror of the entire affair that anyone with half a brain would know perfectly well could have been easily avoided by simply ordering a cheesburger and fries although in this day and age we aware that these sorts of things in our diet are extremely harmful and very often need constant infusions of medicine to alleviate the massive accumulation of cholesterol and other harmful fatty substances in the blood stream that will most likely result in a slow never ending agonizing death which will leave ones family members bereft and hard pressed to provide the funds required to dispose of ones disgusting fat flabby corpse in a cemetary far far away from them and would compell them to drive for hours and hours for the simple matter of returning one to the dust from whence one came???

 

[Superevie]

Originally posted by Dumb pothead
I also dislike long posts, for many of the reasons mentioned above. Why is it that some people feel that the more words they add to a post, the more informative it is? It is entirely possible to comunicate an idea with or two sentances without droning on and on and on ad nauseum, repeating the same things over and over and over again barely pausing to include proper punctuation in their urgency to vomit words all over the screens of countless numbers of people who most likely do not even have an attention span of sufficient length to properly peruse a menu in a fast food outlet that purveys such mundane common everyday items such as hamburgers and french fries and soft drinks when simply glancing at the aforementioned menu would be all that is necessary to instantly digest and absorb all the information found therein because all of us already know perfectly well what sorts of comestibles are available in this type of establishment, having been subject to many visits over the course of our lives which are much to short to waste time on such meaningless claptrap that it boggles the mind that anyone would be so shortsighted to even ponder such an absurd notion with a straight face and avoid laughing hysterically until people became concerned and summoned a doctor who know doubt inject some sort of opiate into ones system so that the gales of insane laughter would finally cease and one wouild collapse into a quivering heap sobbing and sobbing till repeated smacks in the face were required to end the interminable horror of the entire affair that anyone with half a brain would know perfectly well could have been easily avoided by simply ordering a cheesburger and fries although in this day and age we aware that these sorts of things in our diet are extremely harmful and very often need constant infusions of medicine to alleviate the massive accumulation of cholesterol and other harmful fatty substances in the blood stream that will most likely result in a slow never ending agonizing death which will leave ones family members bereft and hard pressed to provide the funds required to dispose of ones disgusting fat flabby corpse in a cemetary far far away from them and would compell them to drive for hours and hours for the simple matter of returning one to the dust from whence one came???

That is the funniest thing I've heard all day. See, this actually looks the same as those "real" long posts. They are so boring and some people are so arrogant and annoying that it is just paragraphs of crap.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Originally posted by Superevie
That is the funniest thing I've heard all day. See, this actually looks the same as those "real" long posts. They are so boring and some people are so arrogant and annoying that it is just paragraphs of crap.

I was hoping nobody would think of doing it before I had the chance

 

[Dell19]

Originally posted by Toasty
The only "long posts" I read are Vrylakas' posts, because I know they're worth my while.

Can you see the problem here? How can you judge that other long posts will not be worthwhile you reading and also doesn't this limit your ability to make an informed decision as you are only getting a detailed account from one source? (excluding other media...)

 

[SanPellegrino]

also I don't like long quotes, when posters pick on one or two sentences but thrash the page with a long quotation

 

[Simon Darkshade]

I have often written some truly lengthy posts/comic gems, and always do the author the courtesy of reading what they have spent so long writing.

 

[Superevie]

Originally posted by Simon Darkshade
I have often written some truly lengthy posts/comic gems, and always do the author the courtesy of reading what they have spent so long writing.

You have... but your short posts are always the best. They are usually the most entertaining and biting posts.

 

[Bozo Erectus]

Dont say 'biting' in front of SD, you dont want to tempt fate.

 

[Knight-Dragon]

I do not have a problem with long posts - I just tend to ignore them.

It's tiring to read things fr the monitor for longtimes...

 

[Simon Darkshade]

Ye should see my annotated collection of highlights, ranging from the beginning of 2001 to this day.
Available for just $49.95 (plus five quarts of potato blood, nineteen and a half cubits of blessed cedar plundered from the naughty cinema underground in the Vatican, half a Fenian (freshly nogged), a sack of splinters from the True Wine as first regurgitated by Albert of Josephamathia at Worms in 1143, an antique palfrey as gundy for the day and three frightened flint flying ferrets from Fotheringay's Festering Falangist Ferret Farm, 555 Ffoots Flat, Fendergobyln, Florida) from a shady booksellers operating out of a brown suede briefcase disguised as a painting of a pair of mad woman's trousers in that dingy ally next to the disused child refinery in Santiago, Chile. For a limited time only. Ask for Emil. Got nothing to do with the book, but you should see his most interesting collection of skin disorders - you'll never look at the words 'pustule' or 'cancre' in the same way again.

 

[willemvanoranje]

if you can't avoid posting something long...please use paragraphs and not one big long pile of words....

 

[WildFire]

Originally posted by Dumb pothead
I also dislike long posts, for many of the reasons mentioned above. Why is it that some people feel that the more words they add to a post, the more informative it is? It is entirely possible to comunicate an idea with one or two sentances without droning on and on and on ad nauseum, repeating the same things over and over and over again barely pausing to include proper punctuation in their urgency to vomit words all over the screens of countless numbers of people who most likely do not even have an attention span of sufficient length to properly peruse a menu in a fast food outlet that purveys such mundane common everyday items such as hamburgers and french fries and soft drinks when simply glancing at the aforementioned menu would be all that is necessary to instantly digest and absorb all the information found therein because all of us already know perfectly well what sorts of comestibles are available in this type of establishment, having been subject to many visits over the course of our lives which are much to short to waste time on such meaningless claptrap that it boggles the mind that anyone would be so shortsighted to even ponder such an absurd notion with a straight face and avoid laughing hysterically until people became concerned and summoned a doctor who know doubt inject some sort of opiate into ones system so that the gales of insane laughter would finally cease and one wouild collapse into a quivering heap sobbing and sobbing till repeated smacks in the face were required to end the interminable horror of the entire affair that anyone with half a brain would know perfectly well could have been easily avoided by simply ordering a cheesburger and fries although in this day and age we aware that these sorts of things in our diet are extremely harmful and very often need constant infusions of medicine to alleviate the massive accumulation of cholesterol and other harmful fatty substances in the blood stream that will most likely result in a slow never ending agonizing death which will leave ones family members bereft and hard pressed to provide the funds required to dispose of ones disgusting fat flabby corpse in a cemetary far far away from them and would compell them to drive for hours and hours for the simple matter of returning one to the dust from whence one came???

Master of redundancy

 

[bobgote]

@ Dumb Pothead: Would best have been finished off with a disparaging comment about neopolitan ice cream, or daylight savings.

 

[Silverflame]

I hate long posts, and I hate making long posts. It's annoying when I realize my post is too long and I try to shorten it. I also hate it when people glaze over the long post but argue with them anyway. Happens a lot on GameFAQs.

Anyway, how long does a post have to be to be considered long?