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Logical · 11:23 PM

EDIT: I am writing about thread responses in this message not the thread headers themselves.

I wonder if some of you realize how often you are writing dissertations rather than messages. I find myself avoiding reading some of them and not responding due to the number of combined messages in a single post.

I am not asking you to change.

I just hope you will realize you are diluting your message by mixing so many thoughts and concepts into a single post.

Again this is not a request for anyone to change, just for people to consider.

**jAZ** · 05-29-2006, 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Logical

I wonder if some of you realize how often you are writing dissertations rather than messages. I find myself avoiding reading some of them and not responding due to the number of combined messages in a single post.

I am not asking you to change.

I just hope you will realize you are diluting your message by mixing so many thoughts and concepts into a single post.

Again this is not a request for anyone to change, just for people to consider.

Logical: the product of the pathetic MTV Generation.

penchief · 05-29-2006, 06:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Logical

I wonder if some of you realize how often you are writing dissertations rather than messages. I find myself avoiding reading some of them and not responding due to the number of combined messages in a single post.

I am not asking you to change.

I just hope you will realize you are diluting your message by mixing so many thoughts and concepts into a single post.

Again this is not a request for anyone to change, just for people to consider.

I'll confess that I am probably guilty of this. Sometimes I just can't help myself. I go through stages where I commit myself to brevity but I always end up back where I started. Sigh......

Logical · 05-29-2006, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by jAZ

Logical: the product of the pathetic MTV Generation.

Nah actually I precede it. However, I surf a lot in short bursts at work and while I am doing other things in the evenings. I don't have time to read all these voluminous posts of late. Once in a while no biggie, but lately it seems like they dominate this forum.

penchief · 05-29-2006, 07:29 PM

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Originally Posted by Logical

Nah actually I precede it. However, I surf a lot in short bursts at work and while I am doing other things in the evenings. I don't have time to read all these voluminous posts of late. Once in a while no biggie, but lately it seems like they dominate this forum.

Lately, stevieray deserves kudos for keeping his smack confined to irrelevant one-liners.

**jAZ** · 05-29-2006, 08:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Logical

Nah actually I precede it. However, I surf a lot in short bursts at work and while I am doing other things in the evenings. I don't have time to read all these voluminous posts of late. Once in a while no biggie, but lately it seems like they dominate this forum.

I know, I'm just giving you shit. You are correct, and I am the same way. Both a sometimes lengthy poster and one who will often skip the longer posts if I'm in a rush.

listopencil · 05-29-2006, 08:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Logical

Nah actually I precede it. However, I surf a lot in short bursts at work and while I am doing other things in the evenings. I don't have time to read all these voluminous posts of late. Once in a while no biggie, but lately it seems like they dominate this forum.

You make a very good point. I don't come here and read anywhere near as much as I used to because so many of the threads are cut and paste articles with, at most, a few lines thrown in by the poster. The ones that aren't tend to read like manifestos created by revolutionary governments instead of political comments. Nowhere near as interesting as it used to be.

**banyon** · 05-29-2006, 08:36 PM

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You make a very good point. I don't come here and read anywhere near as much as I used to because so many of the threads are cut and paste articles with, at most, a few lines thrown in by the poster. The ones that aren't tend to read like manifestos created by revolutionary governments instead of political comments. Nowhere near as interesting as it used to be.

What were threads about in the good ol days if they weren't about current events and they weren't diatribes.

Pithy, eloquent statements and questions of political philosophy?

Was every poster basically like an internet version of Thomas Paine?

Eleazar · 05-29-2006, 08:41 PM

Yeah... realistically, if a post consists of a huge chunk of text and I'm not intimately interested in what the person says, I just Page Down. I am far more likely to read if it's broken up into coherent paragraphs though.

The one that really gets my goat is people pasting in huge articles in the middle of a thread. Who is going to read a 2000 word essay that the poster himself just copied and pasted? Just give us a reader's digest and put the link there so people can click through if they are interested in gory details.

Personally I'm guilty of this sometimes, but I always type out a whole post and then go back to the start of it and trim it down to the smallest size I possibly can.

Taco John · 05-29-2006, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by penchief

Lately, stevieray deserves kudos for keeping his smack confined to irrelevant one-liners.

He learned it by watching Brock, alright!

Logical · 05-29-2006, 09:16 PM

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Originally Posted by banyon

What were threads about in the good ol days if they weren't about current events and they weren't diatribes.

Pithy, eloquent statements and questions of political philosophy?

Was every poster basically like an internet version of Thomas Paine?

Typically they rarely exceeded two paragraphs, often 1 paragraph. If the person had more than one concept/idea/thought to express they would use more than one post so each could be responded to separately.

**banyon** · 05-29-2006, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Logical

Typically they rarely exceeded two paragraphs, often 1 paragraph. If the person had more than one concept/idea/thought to express they would use more than one post so each could be responded to separately.

can you point to a recent thread that fits this mold?

listopencil · 05-29-2006, 09:41 PM

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Originally Posted by banyon

can you point to a recent thread that fits this mold?

Here are a few on the front page that fit the "post an article" type.

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=141484

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=141443

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=141422

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=141288

It's not like you have to look very hard.

Logical · 05-29-2006, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by banyon

can you point to a recent thread that fits this mold?

If there was a recent thread why would I have made this thread. That is the point, of late this concept seems to have disappeared. You are relatively new so you probably have not even experienced it. It has become progressively worse over the last 6 or so months.

Logical · 05-29-2006, 09:43 PM

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Originally Posted by listopencil

Here are a few on the front page that fit the "post an article" type.

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=141484

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=141443

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=141422

http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/showthread.php?t=141288

It's not like you have to look very hard.

I think he means threads not filled with long posts.

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Eleazar Beyond the Rapids Join Date: May 2003 Location: Langley, VA Casino cash: $-370000	Yeah... realistically, if a post consists of a huge chunk of text and I'm not intimately interested in what the person says, I just Page Down. I am far more likely to read if it's broken up into coherent paragraphs though. The one that really gets my goat is people pasting in huge articles in the middle of a thread. Who is going to read a 2000 word essay that the poster himself just copied and pasted? Just give us a reader's digest and put the link there so people can click through if they are interested in gory details. Personally I'm guilty of this sometimes, but I always type out a whole post and then go back to the start of it and trim it down to the smallest size I possibly can.
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