Long posts

[breno785au]

Ah yes good people
the problem of long posts.

Once upon a time
a very long time ago
before the days of Noah
and possibly before the
Tower of Babel,
lengthy hand written
essays and dissertations
were not only encouraged
they were demanded,
accompanied with correct
grammar (or is that grandma
just putting that in to see if
you are still reading ).
Then along came Babel,
texting, facebook and
numerous social media
sites.

A whole new world
opened up and for
the first time a person
could divulge their
deepest darkest
secrets to the
entire world
with one click of
a button.

However, so could
everyone else.
So in an attempt
to make sure your
deepest darkest
secrets were read
first, strange new
words were introduced
such as lol, C u ltr,
Op, thx the like of
which had never
been seen before.
(if you are still
reading give yourself
a medal).

Then some people
discovered they could
sum up all of their
deepest darkest
secrets with one
symbol such as
.

Additionally words
such as eh, aargh,
Zzzzz, sigh started
to become very
popular, whereas
words such as thee,
thy and thine become
lost.

Mankind pondered over
this and started to
wonder what language
was spoken before Babel
but no one could remember.
So they lol and time
moved on with words
and posts getting shorter
and shorter, until
one day the only
sound that could
be heard was the
occasional grunt
and big foot was born!

So the moral of this
story, is, actually
I haven't a clue I just
wanted to
annoy everyone with
a long post.

Second worst thing after long posts, is quoting long posts.

 

[GandalfTheWhite]

Second worst thing after long posts, is quoting long posts.

How true

 

[Tintin]

Second worst thing after long posts, is quoting long posts.

Oops. Right on. I agree. Hear, hear!

 

[MarcR]

Please advise:

I try to avoid long posts. Sometimes it takes several scriptures in context to make a point.

Sometimes a citation from a reference work carries more authority than my word when a question is raised.

I try to break responses to long posts into multiple small posts


Do i still over do some posts? I will NOT take offense!

 

[GandalfTheWhite]

Please advise:

I try to avoid long posts. Sometimes it takes several scriptures in context to make a point.

Sometimes a citation from a reference work carries more authority than my word when a question is raised.

I try to break responses to long posts into multiple small posts


Do i still over do some posts? I will NOT take offense!

I usually read your posts sir.

 

[wincam]

Folks, when you post a ton of info it falls on deaf ears. Do you not understand that? When you post beyond a few lines interest fades quickly. Why? because you aren't posting anything from you. It is copy and paste or link. Only those who are close to you, your friends or someone closely following a thread that pay attention to lengthy posts.

Want someone to skip over your post? Make it it long and laborious to read.
If you have something from the bible it simply doesn't take that many lines or posts to be of interest..

Want someone to ignore your posts? Make it long.

exactly and mostly much ado about nothing - wincam

 

[MarcR]

I usually read your posts sir.

Thanks for your feedback.

 

[Least]

I don't mind long posts, especially if it is a topic of interest backed up with scriptures, I read through them. Sometimes it can be like a process to get to the point of the post, but...

“The times we find ourselves having to wait on others may be the perfect opportunities to train ourselves to wait on the Lord.” ~ Joni Eareckson Tada

It's good practice in patience.
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[atwhatcost]

You two (just above) don't write long posts, not by my account. I don't read them all, but of those I do read, I don't skim them. We're talking the nonsensically-long posts some people make. At least I am.

I'm still new. You'll see. I do long winded. lol

 

[atwhatcost]

Folks can just click the ignore button, that means they will never see a post you make, thats the kind of ignore I am speaking of.

I am very blind I make posts large to read and reduce them to post, and I use colors in books and in posts and have for many years as that is how I study to follow closely the words.

All this is nothing new though, I have been online for over ten years myself I have people adopting the colors and people hating the colors, some hated them at first then loved them, people are just different. I think people just love to gripe though. Use the ignore button, save one another from each of yourselves.

One of my best freinds Chrissie who I met on the forums is legally blind and they help her and others who are elderly like my freinds Charlene, both cant see, and they enable them.

So those who gripe they cant see, consider those who actually can, and if they bother one person that ignore button is just awesome, its one of the best features a board can have, the person goes "poof"! and disapears.

I would be curious would know if the words of God (in redletter) or any colors online ( or as its written in the books in red) has actually caused seizures as well.

Like, if Gods words lack any real power (even as written) to prevent such a thing for another.

People with that problem shouldnt be online where there is colors on things like avatars if that is so.

Let's see if this works.

Can't we just use very large fonts? (This site drives me nuts, because the type is getting into magnifying glass time. lol)

I really would type this big all the time, but I don't want to scare the super-vision folks away. lol

 

[atwhatcost]

Hey I used to use 3-4 colors I have toned down, I have sought other ways to hight such as the next sentence.

I dont like speaking from myself though because it invites strifes.

When folks cant latch on to your words theres nothing to strive or wrest with except for scripture and if they do they will have to begin handling it (if they can) or wresting with it (if they cant) and that will just look really bad (on them) to begin doing that.

Thats why once and awhile I will either shut up completely or just test whether that person is combative by sprinkling a couple of my own words through (in a sentence or two) and then watch what they do.

Because you can post 100 lines of scripture (just as I did that on a thread we were both on) and only post a couple of lines from myself talking (saying something no one with half a brain cant understand) and after they have been sitting there for hours (and hour and hours) trying to figure out what to wrangle with, your own words are that provision and thats what is typically taken up. That just seems to be how it is.

That highlighting thing though is very tedious, so its not something you just do for kicks, it really does help for bad sight, my books have large print and look like a bunch of rainbow pages.

And if I run across a post and it isnt broken up, or highlighted or underlined (being too lenghty) I will overpass their posts as well. Unless I really like that poster, then I will take their post back to my forum, blow it up and read it.

Its just true that people are different, as my eyes are likely not as good as theirs (normally) so we have that and peoples preferences.

And some come to argue, others to sow (there are others lurk and say nothing) while some others love moreso to play around, joke and not involve themselves in planting the word of God in this particular arena.

I might blind those who have decent natural eyesight and yet help those whose eyesight (such as my freind Chrissie are for the most part near blind (in respects to the same).

I will try to remember to highlight the posts before posting and turn it all black (when I remember) and if I forget I will go back and edit if I can beat that 5 minute edit timer.

I'm a writer. I didn't really get into writing to get published until I hit my 50s. Then I discovered we're not supposed to put two spaces between sentences anymore. The hardest thing for me to stop doing is something I've been doing for decades. You really don't have to uncolor-code for me. I really did mean I like your posts when I can deal with them. (I don't hate them when I can't, I simply don't read them.) Two spaces is fine. I'm not a stickler. (Well, I am, but not on stuff like that.)

 

[Utah]

Folks, when you post a ton of info it falls on deaf ears. Do you not understand that? When you post beyond a few lines interest fades quickly. Why? because you aren't posting anything from you. It is copy and paste or link. Only those who are close to you, your friends or someone closely following a thread that pay attention to lengthy posts.

Want someone to skip over your post? Make it it long and laborious to read.
If you have something from the bible it simply doesn't take that many lines or posts to be of interest..

Want someone to ignore your posts? Make it long.

Seven posts in one.

But spot on. I roll right past longs posts unless fully engaged in the thread or a close friend is the one who shared it. Other than that, sometimes in life, less is more.

 

[atwhatcost]

Please advise:

I try to avoid long posts. Sometimes it takes several scriptures in context to make a point.

Sometimes a citation from a reference work carries more authority than my word when a question is raised.

I try to break responses to long posts into multiple small posts


Do i still over do some posts? I will NOT take offense!

Granted, I've only been on here for a week or two, but, gotta say, from what I've seen, you are one of the most succinct people I've ever met. It's annoying, but only annoying because I'm not that. I want to be you when I grow up. (Given my age, do you think I have a chance?)

 

[Utah]

Since this is a good place to whine about posting, I've got one most don't consider. I'm bifocaled already with a second pair of glasses just for computer time. I can't take too much italics, too much coloring, bolding, underlining, etc. in a single post. It makes it too disjointed. I also know a couple of folks with epilepsy that have a chance of a seizure if they see red. "Ignore it" doesn't necessarily work. Rather like trying to ignore an elephant. It's noticeable.

Really? No worries, I won't use red highlight anymore.

 

[Tintin]

I'm still new. You'll see. I do long winded. lol

You don't need to. I have faith in you that you can refine your thoughts for posts.

 

[psychomom]

Excuse me?

Some of us are quite capable of boring everyone into a deep, mindless coma without resorting to copy/paste.

: )

why, thank you, Max.

i do try.
everyone needs some sleep, right?

 

[MarcR]

Granted, I've only been on here for a week or two, but, gotta say, from what I've seen, you are one of the most succinct people I've ever met. It's annoying, but only annoying because I'm not that. I want to be you when I grow up. (Given my age, do you think I have a chance?)

Thank you for your kind words. When I finished High School, instead of going off to college, I read Encyclopedia Britanica 10 hours a day 6 days a week for nearly 3 years before specializing in English and American history and literature. It gave me a vocabulary and a distaste for verbosity.

Sixty hours per week for 3 years is a major time commitment; but that's how I got there.

 

[Willie-T]

I'm a firm believer in the words of my signature.

 

[Willie-T]

Excuse me?

Some of us are quite capable of boring everyone into a deep, mindless coma without resorting to copy/paste.

: )

You're living proof.

 

[Jason0047]

One, God had a lot to say in His Word. Two, do you think everything that the men of God had written was their own work or do you think they were inspired by another author? My point is that truth is truth no matter where that source comes from and no matter the size of it. If one is a diligent student of God's Word and is truly interested in a particular field of study, then they will read a long post whether it is from them or from another source. For we as believers learn and grow not only in our personal study, but from the teachings of other believers. If not, then why do you go to a church to listen to a Pastor? Was not the Sermon on the Mount a long speech? Did Jesus speak on His own behalf or did Jesus speak everything that the Father told Him to say? Are we not to conform to the image of Christ?