[proud American in Canada]

Just wrote it.

[proud American in Canada]

Perhaps they belong in a separate thread.

[alexander_busek]

Yeah, it hurts my brain, too!

Why don't you just skip the article, and go straight to the responses? I hear that a lot of FReepers do that!

Regards,

[Zhang Fei]

You could just read the first 3 sentences and move on to the comments.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Could you cut this post down a little it’s to long

[CivilWarBrewing]

What is this, Twitter?

It's very easy to skip to the next post if comments are too long for you.

[right way right]

You shoult take the evelyn woodhead sped reeding corse.

[mass55th]

Learn speed reading.

[Hostage]

I don’t have time to read every thread even if they are short. I choose topics that are of interest to me and stick with those.

When it comes to individual posts written by FR members to a thread, I find those that are informative and otherwise of value, and I remember the poster’s FR name to follow in the future.

I suggest you learn to find topics that interest you and follow FR members that help you rather than complain about length of posts or threads.

[nathanbedford]

Read a short sentence, lie down a while with a cool compress on your forehead keeping your eyes tightly shut.

In a short time you will be able to arise and read another even longer sentence this time without moving your lips.

[Leaning Right]

You make a good point. And long posts actually hurt the poster more than they hurt the reader.

The poster obviously thinks his post is important, and should be read. And quite often that’s true. But many folks - me included - just skip over long posts entirely. Don’t read them at all.

So,

Long, wordy posts - bad
Short, to the point posts - good
Funny animal pictures - best

[Reno89519]

Depends on the topic. Too short is too little, and yes, some are excessively long. I think a bigger challenge is that someone posting something should stick around and participate in the discussion.

[Nateman]

Videos are worse. I much rather read a post than have to spend my data on a video. Especially some talking head.

[Drango]

Are you logged in?

[gundog]

No.

[Nifster]

meh

[RegulatorCountry]

Yes, we usually only have the holy scroller Greek Tragedy long threads with endless religious back and forth but lately it feels as if the forum is being jammed with screeds. It’s particularly tedious when viewing FR on a phone. They need to get over themselves.

[conservativesister]

I totally agree, there are some posts that should have taken the writer a full day to put together.

I just CAN’T read something like that, I skip certain posters, it’s probably good information but I don’t have the time to devote to it.

It’s hard to keep up as it is.

THANK YOU!!! (and YES he was a jerk)

[DeplorablePaul]

I think some folks feel the need to vent. Take it from me, who has been banned from social media for saying common sense things with swearing or threats, there is no other place to post than FR.

[ronniesgal]

the poster could warn ya in the title (long read) and i hate when people will not use paragraphs.

[trebb]

Simple solution - if you don’t feel like reading it, don’t read it....I think that...but what I feel ain’t important.