Topic: What we think is a quality post - page 4. (Read 622 times)

Those who write lengthy posts do so in order to meet up with the character count of the campaigns they are in. Watch those who are not in campaigns and you will notice how short their posts can be. I blame campaigns that set the character limit count of their campaigns to 200/250 for posts. That is a long one and most people do not like to read lengthy posts. It bores the mind. I like it where minimum character count is set at 75 characters. Sometimes the information is provided in the first line but the poster goes on to add words to meet up the requirements.

The quality of a post is often a subjective thing, because not all people have the same criteria, and I think that is completely normal. Some things can be explained very well in 2 or 3 sentences, some other things require a lot more effort and time and we cannot generalize that a good post is one that has 3 sentences or 30 sentences. A wall of text never means quality if it doesn't make sense, and most users won't even bother to read such posts - but if someone is really good at presenting quality information, I'll always be happy to read his post and reward him with merit.

The reason why some users reward posts that are not one or two sentences may be that in addition to quality, they want to reward someone's effort and time required to create such a post. Of course, this does not mean that there are no quality posts that are short and do not deserve merit - each forum user is an individual who should make decisions based on their own thinking, we are not a collective consciousness.

I tend to favour the concept of interest over the term quality in the context of Merit (which I figure is the context here). Both terms are subjective, but a post that arouses interest of some sort, be it through a question, a comment, a versed explanation, a summarized explanation, a novel theme or approach, or what not, is more the concept sought for in my opinion.

The post can then additionally be well constructed and structured, with decent grammar and a clear exposition, features that may build towards it falling under the additional quality categorization.

According to my observations, long posts are sometimes very tedious to read. I very often see the indignation of users that it would be nice to shorten a thought in the text, especially since it carries a lot of "water"
But when it comes to merit, great posts are sometimes also rated more for effort than quality. So yes, I agree, all that is needed can be said briefly but clearly. It is the most convenient and not fatiguing in terms of reading.
But I also vote for good large texts that explain some points in the most accessible and understandable way.

Quality post is not about size, length it could be long or short. Quality post is about useful information that is passed to users that come across it. How it can add value

A quality post is a post that is answerable to a question, and also a post that brings a solution to a question even though it's a two lines stanza of an article that's well arranged, coordinated, constructed, understandable and also meaningful, but from my perspective some user's misunderstood what we meant by a quality post or a quality article, i have come across of some varieties of post's in the community and it trigger's me to put it in writing, i seen some user's making an ambiguous articles And taught that a large numbers of articles is granted or guarantee making of a tangible or nice post, [No]

I also catch up that some people don't like to award Merit to a post that is shorter with cogent reasons and meaningful rather prefer a post that is large and contains a large numbers of articles, while those posts that is very ambiguous can as well contain More less vital informations that is valueless than the shorter Post, i have seen that newbies is adopting the system of long article with valueless point, so it's encouraging and admirable to make post that is lesser and have meaning, it's not that I'm condemning a long article writers post but we should understand the concept that your content  of post  at first also understand the summary of your point.