Topic: Making a long post is not the ultimate (Read 686 times)
As a newbie, I can't come here and see a long post. I will skip and look for short ones. Especially on this forum where everything looks tiny.
You can't look long prepared as a newbie, and it needs to be corrected. Forum users explain briefly what can be explained by short posts. But in some cases, we can only explain some of the things in the form, so it may be seen that sometimes our posts can be significant, but these are good posts. For this, sometimes the post is long but should be read, and knowledge should be gained from here. On the other hand, as a new member of the forum, you should read more to learn better.Yes, newbies should make an effort and read more than they are used to, especially today that other social media favor very (too) concise information.
That doesn't mean we shouldn't make an effort and try to be concise and explain our arguments briefly. Moreover, we should also think in the reader when we quote previous posts and avoid text sheets (there is a rule in the forum about that), cutting the non relevant information, which is not seen very often, unfortunately.
The long and well-structured explanations on topics of interest that have been well researched are probably the most valuable thing we have in this forum. But that has nothing to do with the tendency of some to pretend by simply writing long texts that do not contribute much, as if it were a school exam for which they had not studied much.
As a newbie, I can't come here and see a long post. I will skip and look for short ones. Especially on this forum where everything looks tiny.
You can't look long prepared as a newbie, and it needs to be corrected. Forum users explain briefly what can be explained by short posts. But in some cases, we can only explain some of the things in the form, so it may be seen that sometimes our posts can be significant, but these are good posts. For this, sometimes the post is long but should be read, and knowledge should be gained from here. On the other hand, as a new member of the forum, you should read more to learn better.
As a newbie, I can't come here and see a long post. I will skip and look for short ones. Especially on this forum where everything looks tiny.
It's very true that not all long post carry any information or indicates that a post is of good quality, but I knowing users that make very good quality king post, although i still find it exhausting to read, there are very informative and when you look at them, there contain hours of research and picking of points to make those post, but some forum member misuse this and just make long stupid post that makes no sense.
You are correct Op,that making a long post is not really what's too important in the forum,how quality it is,but will you see with me that every quality post can not be of just two sentence? because before you break down the meaning of what you want to express to the audience,you must said something long.I agree with you that quality is the most important thing,but in order to express that idea of yours,and make the next person understand properly,the sentence must be a bit long.A good writing must be atleast four to five reasonable sentences,and the sentences must be very simple and clear and easy to understand.
you don't need to write a long thing to call it a quality post a quality post is a post that the currency or passes a knowledge from one person to another person many people misunderstood what is the quality post a four line sentence can be called a quality because is answerable to your question so any question that I have a good answer with a four Lines sentence that is a quality post it does not necessarily mean that you will write a paragraph that will contain 200 words so writing such will not guarantee you a quality writer, so I made it to be plane and understandable to every person so that our beginners cannot meet a step. 
If you can hit a keyword and get straight to the point on a particular topic, what's the point of stressing things?
The more you write, sometimes it complicates things without the author even realising it. At the beginning, most of the long text might have meaning, but the more you read it, the more confused you get about what the person is saying.
The more you write, sometimes it complicates things without the author even realising it. At the beginning, most of the long text might have meaning, but the more you read it, the more confused you get about what the person is saying.
I swear, you are completely correct, I have encounter so many posts that got me my interest to reply or give out my own perspective but got confused at the middle or finishing point, which will make me not to know what to say or write anymore.
That is why we should be careful on what we post here, and also get the right source of our information to enable people to know what to reply and also long post doesn't guarantee us to earn a merit, although it doesn't matter how long or short our post but since we know what we post and it can impact knowledge to people.
I think that we shouldn't judge a post merely because it's too long or short, to me what matters most is the content, if you are reading a long quality post then you wouldn't really mind that it is long because the content is interesting to you. Where problem arises is if the content of the long post doesn't make sense, then it will be boring and there'll be no zeal to continue reading. Although I personally prefer posts that are not too long and goes straight to the point because there are other comments to read too, a comment that is long must have quality content for me to read it otherwise I just glance through and ignore reading further.
no one is against you writing a lengthy piece most expecially when there is no shorter way to doing that. What's the issue is that you need to understand that you're writing what others will have to read and when you jam-pack everything like the one the OP quoted, from first sight you just have to skip it because it's not even appealing to the eyes. It's just like what happens in the normal life, once your appearance is bad, it doesn't really matter what you know or the value you carry, people will most times judge you from your look and that's why it's just right to put in the effort to appear more decent and in this context, it's best you put in the effort to write in a manner that people can easily read what you're trying to pass across and profer solutions to it Note that writing too short like some few words in a line is also considered spamming and so you just have to put in the effort to moderate everything you're doing.if you must write a lengthy article, don't fail to give regular spacing at after an approximate of four to five lines so the reader can follow up on the message you're conveying. It's not a big thing to ask.
I think that we shouldn't judge a post merely because it's too long or short, to me what matters most is the content, if you are reading a long quality post then you wouldn't really mind that it is long because the content is interesting to you. Where problem arises is if the content of the long post doesn't make sense, then it will be boring and there'll be no zeal to continue reading. Although I personally prefer posts that are not too long and goes straight to the point because there are other comments to read too, a comment that is long must have quality content for me to read it otherwise I just glance through and ignore reading further.
I’m surprised the user quoted by the OP isn’t wearing a Stake signature, since lengthy, redundant, and low quality posts are typical of a large percent of the members in that campaign. Unfortunately, there is too much of an incentive that this kind of spam will continue being a problem on the forum. Even when they aren’t wearing a signature, you will have other spammers who interact with them and give them attention to increase their post count.
You are correct Op,that making a long post is not really what's too important in the forum,how quality it is,but will you see with me that every quality post can not be of just two sentence? because before you break down the meaning of what you want to express to the audience,you must said something long.I agree with you that quality is the most important thing,but in order to express that idea of yours,and make the next person understand properly,the sentence must be a bit long.A good writing must be atleast four to five reasonable sentences,and the sentences must be very simple and clear and easy to understand.
Some people think about that creating long post would be good for them. But they failed to know that lots of people doesn't like to read such heavy text without having any context base on what discussion discuss.
There are some that it will be easy for them to gain a merit if they write long post. That's why at this point if they read this thread they should figure out that its not necessary to do that. They just need to be on point and their post is understandable and helpful then everything is fine.
Also it will be more easy for people to understand what he's pointing out on his post if he make all things more clearer and he don't add filler words.
Clearly, everyone has its opinion on the type of post that appeals to his or her eyes, But to me, I love straight to the point posts despite conveying important information, it's still much better if such quality posts are written in a condensed format because sometimes we may not have the time on our side to have to read everything in that long post despite being informative or being written by an interesting writer, there are many things to read here in the forum to be spending my whole time in reading just one thing, especially post that has no direction because from my experience it is really annoying reading such long posts and at the end it was pointless.
I will agree on this. Each of us has our own preference when it comes to posting, regardless if it’s a lengthy or short post as long as the main subject is already there. However, there are times that we get so easily tired in reading a long post regardless if it’s topic is still interesting. With that, majority still prefer to read a short post that has already everything that makes the topic relevant. Aside that it saves your time and effort, you can still do a lot of reading next to it without getting yourself tired and boredom. 
most of this user topic is elongated and you can't comprehend exactly what the point is navigating to, the main reason this forum is established is to learn from others and it doesn't mean that your composition will be that long before readers will understand your point.
Some new users tend to post these very long, unabridged topics and posts that provide intuitive and outdated information because they think this might make them high-quality posters in the hope of receiving merits and respect from the members. However, these lengthy articles, which include many lines, sentences, and characters, lack proper formatting and correct writing, making people not enthusiastic about reading them because they feel bored as the writer wants to fill the topic and posts with non-new information, facts, and ideas without summarizing and simplifying what he wants to convey to the public easily and attractively. Additionally, they might plagiarize from other blogs and forum sites without putting resources or creating AI-generated posts, making them unethical members as they attribute these contents to themselves to increase their contributions and activities. 
You are correct Op,that making a long post is not really what's too important in the forum,how quality it is,but will you see with me that every quality post can not be of just two sentence? because before you break down the meaning of what you want to express to the audience,you must said something long.I agree with you that quality is the most important thing,but in order to express that idea of yours,and make the next person understand properly,the sentence must be a bit long.A good writing must be atleast four to five reasonable sentences,and the sentences must be very simple and clear and easy to understand.
Some people think about that creating long post would be good for them. But they failed to know that lots of people doesn't like to read such heavy text without having any context base on what discussion discuss.
There are some that it will be easy for them to gain a merit if they write long post. That's why at this point if they read this thread they should figure out that its not necessary to do that. They just need to be on point and their post is understandable and helpful then everything is fine.
Also it will be more easy for people to understand what he's pointing out on his post if he make all things more clearer and he don't add filler words.
Sometimes it's not enough to give information so people tend to need longer details but seems this quoted information is not too much information instead a subjective context is given by the author, if creating a long post just to merit seems the person who would like to read this will not read the full context and give time to read and just making realize the content is just having a redundant information. We don't have an issue with the long post as long as it helps but if the information is just copy pasted and AI generated seems a problem, tons of cases too newbies creating a long thread and detected as AI.
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You are correct Op,that making a long post is not really what's too important in the forum,how quality it is,but will you see with me that every quality post can not be of just two sentence? because before you break down the meaning of what you want to express to the audience,you must said something long.I agree with you that quality is the most important thing,but in order to express that idea of yours,and make the next person understand properly,the sentence must be a bit long.A good writing must be atleast four to five reasonable sentences,and the sentences must be very simple and clear and easy to understand.
Clearly, everyone has its opinion on the type of post that appeals to his or her eyes, But to me, I love straight to the point posts despite conveying important information, it's still much better if such quality posts are written in a condensed format because sometimes we may not have the time on our side to have to read everything in that long post despite being informative or being written by an interesting writer, there are many things to read here in the forum to be spending my whole time in reading just one thing, especially post that has no direction because from my experience it is really annoying reading such long posts and at the end it was pointless.
If you can hit a keyword and get straight to the point on a particular topic, what's the point of stressing things?
The more you write, sometimes it complicates things without the author even realising it. At the beginning, most of the long text might have meaning, but the more you read it, the more confused you get about what the person is saying.
The more you write, sometimes it complicates things without the author even realising it. At the beginning, most of the long text might have meaning, but the more you read it, the more confused you get about what the person is saying.
You are absolutely correct, that is why it's very important to know or be sure of what you are doing or about to post before writing it for others to understand and read meaning to what they post.
So actually it's not by quantity but by quality, we should do things easier for people to read and understand what they are reading and also it can be helpful to most people in the essence that they will learn from it.
It's true that making quality posts is difficult but I really like it, especially since I'm a beginner, I have to learn a lot and improve in science so I don't get left knowledge other people
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I can still remember that name because that user often creates a new thread, and the content of that thread is a wall of text just like what the OP has posted.
I can still remember that somebody here in the forum criticizes me because I'm making a shit long of text at that time, that it looked like a wall of text because I'm not using double space at that time. I can't remember the name though, but I'm forever grateful to you.
That kind of posts are not attractive for us readers to read. I mean I didn't saw that thread, but I will not read it if I saw it, and I know that those who saw it didn't read all of it either because like me, they saw it unattractive to read as well. Who wants to read a wall of text like that. If you want to convey something, then at least make it presentable, and not just type something, and completely forgot how to use double space to at least make it presentable.
I hope that nobody here will do what that user is doing. Words matter, but the context of the post is way better, and it doesn't matter if it's a long post or a short one, as long as you share your opinion.
I can still remember that somebody here in the forum criticizes me because I'm making a shit long of text at that time, that it looked like a wall of text because I'm not using double space at that time. I can't remember the name though, but I'm forever grateful to you.
That kind of posts are not attractive for us readers to read. I mean I didn't saw that thread, but I will not read it if I saw it, and I know that those who saw it didn't read all of it either because like me, they saw it unattractive to read as well. Who wants to read a wall of text like that. If you want to convey something, then at least make it presentable, and not just type something, and completely forgot how to use double space to at least make it presentable.
I hope that nobody here will do what that user is doing. Words matter, but the context of the post is way better, and it doesn't matter if it's a long post or a short one, as long as you share your opinion.
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