I believe you guys should not feel overshadowed by my long posts.

Shadows shmadows. More like complete darkness.

Yes, global warming is an imminent threat, but back onto the matter of my long posts.

Your long posts are rather...... long.

You're long posts have begun to make me feel completely and utterly inadequate. So I decided to go look through a dictionary to find long words that described my sorrow.

Really? I usually use a thesaurus to find better words for my feelings if I were to use something, not a dictionary. I feel a dictionary would take too long to look through at every words definition. However, I am curious what your opinion is on antidisestablishmentarianism...

You have to remember most members suffer from ADD and/or ADHD which causes the focus to read your post fleet away...yet they have no problem reading HoH. D:

But I thought everyone was cured? :huh:

That wasn't a very long post IMO.

This topic makes my head hurt.

It's an imminently imminent threat. Someone noticing some new, threatening thing about global warming threatens to occur any day now.

Kipdog doesn't HAVE to remember that. He could just ignore it and continue to make long posts, much like myself. In fact, I would say that adding another paragraph to his posts would certainly improve them in quantitative measurements of their quality.

Cant you just say that "If he makes his posts longer, they'll be better" ?

Stop sounding school-ish <_<

Actually I agree with SeverIan, if they don't want to read all of it, they can always scan it. I personly like the longer post because it makes it easier to understand what the person is saying and why.

Maybe it just me...

Well, I find that alot of times, instead of going into detail, they get derailed of what they were trying to say, which makes the posts even more confusing when you start on one topic, and slowly go into a totally different one. :blink:

Longer post are just excuses to digress from the point or flaunt around pointless vocab words. :/ It would be more efficient to get straight to the point and let everyone move on to the next post.

No. And....no.

I have no idea what you're talking about. I for one have never done this.

Can we just agree to digressee (digress+disagree)?

As long as we're in RI, posts should be either extremely, confusingly long or stupendously short. Or a combination of the two - I enjoy quoting a large number of images and then making a one or two word reply.

True it would be easier but would it be more effective? Take Strike for example, He could (and usually does) say something really short and misleading (possibly insulting), but if you read his signature, you find that he often says things and they are misunderstood. Longer post (maybe not as long this but you get the idea) help clearify what you are saying and why you are saying it.

Efficiency is good but if you make a post to save yourself/other time to write/read, then something gets confused. Then arguements occur and efficiency isn't very efficient anymore is it?

All in all, I think that the length of a post must needs be determined by the "length" (or perhaps width or height - I think a very high building would require more discussion than a very long building, unless the long building is being planned in an already densely built-up city or in an area w/ a great variation of elevation), mentally, of the idea being discussed.

That being said, as the asarya, I accept this blessed yet cursed, perfect yet flawed universe, and all the things which exist within it - even the posts, with their varied and often imperfect lengths. I say "yes" to existence itself.

Well, I can make a long post two ways. One of two ways to be precise. One way is to go into detail of the actual subject at hand, or the other of the two ways that exist that I am speaking of is to go off subject at one point I suppose. However, of these two ways, do not get the thought that there arent more than two ways. I am in no way disallowing every other way except the two mentioned. But... I havent yet mentioned names for the two, so they could be generalized into several other ways as well.

Are longer posts simply just excuses to digress from the point or flaunt around pointless vocab words? Why no, no they are not. Well, if you look at it from one point of view, yes, yes they are. But on the same note they are not. Lets say two people offer a plan to save the world. Person A says, Im going to save the world. Person B says, Im going to save the world, and heres how Im going to do it. Im going to save the world by finding ways that could help the world stay alive. These ways that could help the world stay alive could exist or they could not. When I find these methods to help save the world I will use them. WHO WILL YOU AGREE WITH? I think the obvious choice is person b, considering he gives explicit reasoning as to how he will go about saving the world, giving well thought out answers that tell us what he is going to do exactly, where as person a just says he will save the world.

What is my point here? Well, there isnt necessarily a point to everything. So perhaps my point here was that there isnt always a point. But that wouldnt flow very well with what I typed now would it? So...I figured that maybe the point was that longer posts are better. But it could be viewed differently by both parties at hand here. So I think what im trying to say here is that you guys should not feel overshadowed by my long posts! Or maybe Im saying these long posts really do make sense, its just the thought that counts. Perhaps one day

Agreed and I see no reason why the the 1st type should be a problem...

As long as some one doesn't blow it completely out of proportions...

And even the second one shouldn't be to bad as long soneone doesn't completely change the subject.