Quackula said:

Well you sometimes make points that could be summed up in a sentence or two as opposed to a paragraph or two. It kind of seems like you type as the thoughts come to you.

Plus when you act condescending, it doesn't do much for your persuasiveness. You might be more effective at getting your points across if you acted a bit more respectful towards folk.

I'm kind of rambling myself here, but yeah, just sayin'.

There's certainly less pre-planning work in my posting than was in writing Star Wars - LOL.

I guess the thing is, I don't particularly make any efforts to artificially cut down my posts to make them shorter, just because they COULD've been shorter. I've written the post, I see to it following a logical line and making the points it was supposed to make the best I can, and then click on "post".

Why? Maybe because I myself don't mind others' long posts - I'm just as likely to read them as I am to read an entire thread, or articles of 4 times the length, and the length doesn't particularly bother me. If it does, or I just lack the necessary interest, I just drop it and go do something else without leaving snarky remarks.

Maybe because some of the most awesome forum contributions in my memory were overly lengthy and snarky rebuttals to myself, at which I later looked and thought "wow, I was a dork back then!"

Dunno..