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Topic: do you read long posts
stephanie_chicago Joined Sat 02/12/11 Posts: 146	Sat 03/12/11 11:47 AM
lately i have seen posts on here get longer and longer. does anyone read long posts all the way through? i tend to skim them till my eyes glaze over. i think if you want someone to read your post, keep it short and to the point.

msharmony Joined Mon 08/31/09 Posts: 61041	Sat 03/12/11 11:49 AM
lately i have seen posts on here get longer and longer. does anyone read long posts all the way through? i tend to skim them till my eyes glaze over. i think if you want someone to read your post, keep it short and to the point. it depends upon if its long because of quoting or if its long because of ONE person posting a book of opinion and information it also depends upon how well the grammar is and what the spacing is like. see, I tend to need breaks in between to help me SEE more clearly as opposed to words all run together one after another for half a page,,,lol but basically, no, I dont read those ultra long posts, I basically just skim maybe a sentence or two of each paragraph

thewaterbearer Joined Sun 10/25/09 Posts: 19759	Sat 03/12/11 11:50 AM
I don't read long posts, don't have the patience for it, if I wanted to do that I would just read a book, I normally just stay in the games thread, short simple and to the point.

LexFonteyne Joined Thu 12/07/06 Posts: 32131	Sat 03/12/11 11:56 AM
Depends on what the subject is and who did the post. If it's a topic I'm interested in, I'll read just about anything. If the post is from someone I know, same thing. But there are some people whose posts are generally incomprehensible, regardless of length. Of course, I am from the "more information is better" school, which is why my profile is 1498 pages long.

Down2earthdebbie Joined Tue 12/05/06 Posts: 6097	Sat 03/12/11 12:29 PM
lately i have seen posts on here get longer and longer. does anyone read long posts all the way through? i tend to skim them till my eyes glaze over. i think if you want someone to read your post, keep it short and to the point. NNNOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

Down2earthdebbie Joined Tue 12/05/06 Posts: 6097	Sat 03/12/11 12:30 PM
lately i have seen posts on here get longer and longer. does anyone read long posts all the way through? i tend to skim them till my eyes glaze over. i think if you want someone to read your post, keep it short and to the point. I DO AGREE!

Totage Joined Sat 10/13/07 Posts: 24210	Sat 03/12/11 12:32 PM
lately i have seen posts on here get longer and longer. does anyone read long posts all the way through? i tend to skim them till my eyes glaze over. i think if you want someone to read your post, keep it short and to the point. Depends, sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.

soufiehere Joined Sat 10/24/09 Posts: 45351	Sat 03/12/11 12:33 PM
Like Lex, I will read anything :-)

fireflysgirl Joined Mon 10/18/10 Posts: 2957	Sat 03/12/11 12:36 PM
mostly NO, but if someone writes well and has a point worth listening to then I surely will read every word! Heck I probably read at least half of Lex's profile once-LOL:)

BettyB Joined Tue 01/29/08 Posts: 31912	Sat 03/12/11 12:40 PM
No...I hate long posts and long profiles too.

eileena9 Joined Fri 04/13/07 Posts: 28211	Sat 03/12/11 12:47 PM
If it hurts my brain to try and read it because of all lower-case or all upper-case letters with no punctuation, no....I will skip it and won't make a comment about the subject because just taking a guess on what it was about and then trying to make a judgment, in my opinion, looks like you are just trying to run your post count up and not really helping the OP.

Torgo70 Joined Fri 06/27/08 Posts: 27387	Sat 03/12/11 12:50 PM
The posts on this thread are too long. Shorten them.

eileena9 Joined Fri 04/13/07 Posts: 28211	Sat 03/12/11 12:54 PM
Bite

eileena9 Joined Fri 04/13/07 Posts: 28211	Sat 03/12/11 12:55 PM
me

eileena9 Joined Fri 04/13/07 Posts: 28211	Sat 03/12/11 12:55 PM
Torgo

LexFonteyne Joined Thu 12/07/06 Posts: 32131	Sat 03/12/11 01:00 PM
mostly NO, but if someone writes well and has a point worth listening to then I surely will read every word! Heck I probably read at least half of Lex's profile once-LOL:) Did it give you a headache? They won't let me make it longer....!

DTHRomeo Joined Wed 06/20/07 Posts: 43387	Sat 03/12/11 01:02 PM
No...I hate long posts and long profiles too. Yea me too!

BettyB Joined Tue 01/29/08 Posts: 31912	Sat 03/12/11 01:12 PM
Sorry about that

Jeanniebean Joined Wed 01/30/08 Posts: 40028	Sat 03/12/11 01:40 PM
In the world of fast skimming of the Internet we just don't have the time to waste... blah blah blah...etc etc. NO.

sweetestgirl11 Joined Fri 09/12/08 Posts: 30087	Sat 03/12/11 02:35 PM
Depends on what the subject is and who did the post. If it's a topic I'm interested in, I'll read just about anything. If the post is from someone I know, same thing. But there are some people whose posts are generally incomprehensible, regardless of length. Of course, I am from the "more information is better" school, which is why my profile is 1498 pages long. it is???