Topic: Quality over Quantity - page 4. (Read 926 times)

Just as you have said, I am not really a fan of reading too much of a lengthy post mate but sometimes I take my time to do read them because there is always something in nothing to learn about. some people write lengthy posts while some are just as little as possible that they could do to communicate with their readers. 

Really, some people try their best to summarize, their posts so as to enable people read it through but even at then, most do see reasons writing  a lengthy post as it could be of help for them to make some little explanations for a better understanding of message being communicated. Sometimes, it could be as a result of requirements here. For instance those into signature campaign are expected to write a certain number of words to qualify and this sometimes requires some posters write lengthy post and still communicate. A lengthy post is not bad but let it pass across information it requires.

A quality post can be short or long depending on the message it intends to pass. While it is better to always make posts concise for fast reading, there is still a need to make them understandable. I have seen long posts in this forum that were very helpful. In fact, you will enjoy reading interesting and quality posts no matter how long they look.

Some original posters might want to use personal experience or examples to make the explanation simple and comprehensible. So these additions might make the post to become long. It is not also good to expect all the posts to be brief, it might be a sign of impatient or lack of interest to learn. We shouldn't be victims of the current trend where people want shortcuts to acquire knowledge.

Some long posts are actually self explanatory to the readers but it is important to keep it short and summarize as best as you can in order not to keep the readers bore and exhaust while reading your post. Although when you enjoy reading some posts, due to content it contains and the message in it, you won't realize how long they are until you are done reading and you'll now be wondering how you were able to read it to the end. I personally don't like reading long post for personal reasons but when it is seems interesting from the topic and the start, I might be tempt to read through but sadly, some long post have nothing to write home about than wasting one's time.

Short and direct posts aid understanding better compared to long post and make it easy for one to contribute in such conversations. You might forget some things you read from the beginning of long post before you could even finish reading the post. It also depends on the topic of discussion because some issues can not be presented in a short and precise thread without involving long explanation.

Big posts are not problematic until they follow the flow and really ad some value top the topic that is being posted. In my opinion quality always win over quantity. Saying things precisely save time of both parties.

The purpose of every thread is either to convey information or seeking advice from people and so but there are some threads that has a long quantity of content but hardly to understand any information from there but perhaps we shouldn't generalize it because there are also threads that has a lot of quantity content and with an informative message and very quality content, actually I observed that most people believes that a lengthy message tends to draw more attention of readers so words that was supposed to be summarized with four lines will be expanded to be more than seven lines, for me it doesn't matter how quantity your thread is but what matters is how quality and informative your post is.

It is true for some users, not most of the users, that they constantly create new topics without regard to the quality of the topics. They are posting whatever they want and there is no educational content through their posts. They are creating similar topics in one section and all their topics and posts are baseless. Again there are some signature campaign promoters who always make baseless shitposts to fulfill the signature post quota, thus questioning the quality of the topic.

But it's okay to have alt's and make shit post with your alt like you doing?
And don't lie to me, everyone saw what they saw its so damn obvious. 
You are the biggest Signature campaign whore here tbh.

I have created a thread before concerning a quality post. what we think is a quality post   so some of what we think is a quality post is not a quality post a quality post is all about how large is your post, but campaign managers sometimes doesn't like to accept or hire some users whom their profile contain small writing without reading how meaningful their post is, I even prefer the people who make four stanza of posts with understandable use of English and meaningful, its not how large and characters your post contain before your post cam be qualify as a quality. I don't want to mention a name, but their is a user in the forum whose post lines doesn't go above three to four lines, but when reading his or her post, you will understand the point is making and you will also know that he hit the nail at head whenever you come across of his post, what we need is a post that's answerable to our question, not a post that contains more than two hundred words without a cogent point after reading. So let us not judge the characters of words use In a particular post as quality post. When reading across this thread I have come across of a full member rank who also emphasis similarly to my point and I figured out some meanings towards his point. And even some people don't like to read a long post because it's tiring, so it's better or nice to make a short that's meaningful.

Wether the writting is long or short is not actually the issue because some times a well detailed information can be contained in a long write just like the unique writer here JJG while sometimes it's just the way some forum members feel they can russle up some merits of actually the text is long but some of these writters don't actually know what they are writing and feel it up with lots of gibberish which confuses the reader.

That should be the case, but the problem with other replies is that it is full of unneeded words just to make the reply look long.  Like citing an example that has nothing to do with the topic being discussed.  I also agree that quality replies does not need to be long, it should be a direct answer that is need for the question may it be technical or opinion based unless asked for an example.  This way the reader do not need to read a long wall of text just to get the essence or the idea of the reply.

Not pointing any fingers because that's the truth where signature campaigns requires certain number of characters for it to be counted and some doesn't have. Well, some posts does indeeed written in details but some people will do it in summarized version but still in good quality or you can say, it is like the same as the detailed version when as you can see it is summarized. Some people doesn't want to read because it's too long or only read some lines or maybe TL;DR in short.

Yeah, I kinda relate as well in that, OP. I just want people to get into straight fucking point instead of just posting a wall of text that are obviously either copied from responses by ChatGPT or just plagiarized from a random article that they wanted to get clicks for their contents from.

It's kinda annoying and this is why I do not give merits to those kinds of posts. Usually those users are either merit-fishing or just padding their posts and squeezing the crap out of the content just to get more than the character limit that their SC requires.

I get your points mates but I wouldn't have to point fingers at signature campaign requirements when making extremely unnecessarily long post because most campaigns always ask for 150 character and some ask for at most 200 characters and if you're to judge that, I think about 3 to 4 line post would give you upto 150 to 200 character writings without necessarily writing a full episode.
There are post that actually don't require stories because people want to learn and there are post that would require you to write in details and my point is that, we should wirte in details when needed and be brief when due.

Normally, I love articles that go straight to the point, I don't really like reading long articles but if it involves an article that contains or conveys valuable information, quality, and makes sense, I'm patient at reading it. The purpose of every article is to convey the information to the readers and anything aside that you have missed it, For me, whether you are a long writer or a short writer, try to make sense of it and pass the info as simple as that.

That's what I meant. It's not about how long or short but what about what you are going to express. I also mentioned about if someone is discussing something then it's better if it's direct to the point instead of going around that will confuse someone. Most will just the quality about your posts or article for example is if it's not off-topic or a little bit off-topic or on topic because if it's on to the point then many will consider it high quality regardless of the content.

You have noted a very good point and I have also often seen posts that are unnecessarily long for no reason. I avoid such posts' You are absolutely right, that the post should be described in simple and concise words. Most of the people think that the longer the post, the better the post will be considered. Therefore, they try to make the posts longer with unnecessary events.

 However, in my opinion, the quality of any post on this forum is a purposeful post.a post that awakens the creativity of others while increasing their knowledge and experience .So that the next one can understand your post well and give you a good reply.You are right that straight to the point posts are best,Some of the posts I see are written in such a strange way that the other person is not able to understand them easily.However, we should also consider the readers while writing our posts.

I agree with you. However, whether a piece of writing is judged as quality or not depends on its content. If it is long but meaningful then that is also good. However, if the writing is related to technical matters, it might be better to just answer as necessary so as not to confuse things. However, when discussing opinions, it is necessary to explain and give examples so that the argument seems longer

To me, when they say quality posts, I don't think that a two (2) line or three (3) line comment or thread is quality enough to be called a quality post. Although everybody's writing skills are not the same, some will like to breakdown every word or sentence for others to understand what they are saying and it is good that way. Imagine you reading a post and you don't understand what the person is saying.
It is very painful to read a whole post and in the end it was rubbish. I remember when I was a newbie and I made a post, then someone asked me if that was the whole post. Since then, I decided to create my post with more lines so no body would ask me such a question again.

It's not about how long the article is because it's all about how the message is conveyed like getting straight to the point. Well, there are some people who make the article going in circles before getting to the point. There's also some who did it because they are required to do so since some signature campaigns have rules like # of characters for it to be eligible because if not then the post won't be counted or not eligible to be counted.

You are right that there are just some straight-to-point posts that also really did pass good information, but every member is not the same, and sometimes it depends on what that user is trying to explain in detail, so he or she would need a few more points in different paragraphs just to make sure that even the least person can be able to comprehend their topic.

Everyone has their own reading capability; some of the people who write lengthy words may just be trying to simplify their topic for a wider understanding, although some threads too could be lengthy and still be meaningless. In a few of these threads that I have come across, the OP only copied all the information from an article, but at the bottom of the thread was a link to the article.

It's not really wrong to write lengthy content, but some annoying parts are when all the words are congested and there is not a single space to quickly catch up with the line you are reading. Those are the kinds of lengthy threads i avoid, but for some threads that are lengthy and yet every point will be analyzed bit by bit, I don't find it difficult to read from top to bottom.