It doesn't take a lot of lines to hijack a thread. Sometimes, all it takes is a few lines of idiotic whining.
Agreed with what you have said...I frankly dont understand all the whining about 'long' posts...just scroll on past the long post...why in the world is that so difficult...its like when one is watching television and a program comes on that is either offending or uninteresting to someone...now the whiners will gripe about it, others will grab the remote and change the channel....its the very same thing here...if you dont like very long posts, then use your mouse, and simply scroll on past...nothing could be easier...
I have seen very long posts coming from all different sides on these CREVO threads...and frankly, I see nothing wrong with it...
And you are so right, often it takes just a few really vile lines to completely hijack a thread...
Of course, this whole matter of whether or not ones posts should be limited by the number of lines they can use in any given post, is something only JR can decide...
As a point of inquiry, has there ever been in the history of FR, such a requirement, that posts can contain only a certain number of lines?...since I have not been on FR from the beginning, but only since 2001, I am curious about this...was there ever a limit put on the number of lines in a post, and was there ever an attempt by some posters, in the past, to propose that such a limit be enacted?...I would be curious to know this...