I didn’t feel like reading this whole thread, which, as I understand, is talking about people not wanting to read long threads. The irony kills me…
The reason why I didn’t read this whole thread, is that it would take me probably like… 10 minutes. I’m not gonna lie and say I have better things to do, because I don’t. But I don’t feel like taking 10 minutes to come to the conclusion of “People should read long threads because usually they have good stuff”, which is most likely where this thread has said, or will say.
EDIT: Some (relatively) common knowledge in the web development community is that a visitor to your site usually takes about 13 seconds to decide if he/she wants to stay. If nothing grabs their attention within those 13 seconds, they will leave. What exactly this has to do with this thread, I’m not sure. I’m sure some people could make a link or something…
Some pre-Internet wisdom I was taught long ago:
–Your paragraphs should be from 3 to 10 sentences long (my 9th grade English teacher)
–“Telegraph talk” is the inability to communicate with sentences longer than 10 words (I don’t remember where I heard this one)
A suggestion, based on recent experience:
If you have trouble wading through long posts on this forum, spend some time carefully reading Herman Melville’s Billy Budd. Once you have mastered Melville’s convoluted sentence structure, you will have no trouble reading anything posted here!
Okay… Yes and no I agree with some of what you guys are saying. and I think from now on I will take some of your advice into consideration – Good speeling of tings, B r e a k i n g things up. Making important things bold, underlined or italic. And whatever else.
Also, I think that by thread I more specifically meant POST. But when people just read the first post of the thread the do miss important things that are said by other people throughout the thread.
Some pre-Internet wisdom I was taught long ago:
–Your paragraphs should be from 3 to 10 sentences long (my 9th grade English teacher)
–“Telegraph talk” is the inability to communicate with sentences longer than 10 words (I don’t remember where I heard this one)
Pre-internet wisdom??? I believe that almost all of my books on building a website say the same exact thing. People will almost always look over anything that appears to be very long.
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