Suggestion: don't post more than a couple paragraphs at a time

if we post a comment in a forum it means we want people to read it. yet with longer posts it becomes less likely that anyone will read the whole thing. i'd be willing to bet that 90% of the time when someone browsing MP comes across a gigantic post, they read only the first few sentences before their eyes glaze over and they move on to the next one. typically, this is what i do.

believe it or not, people do actually want to read your comments. unfortunately, if you have an insight and feel you need to go into a lot of detail to express your thoughts, you severely lower your chances of those thoughts being heard. climbers are expert problem-solvers, and i have the utmost confidence that whatever it is we have to say can be condensed into a couple of paragraphs. as an example, look at this post. i could have easily written pages on this subject, but then no one would have read it.

cheers

Sorry Jon, I didn't read your whole post, but I think I got the point of it from the thread title. I agree with you...

Deaun Schovajsa wrote:Sorry Jon, I didn't read your whole post, but I think I got the point of it from the thread title. I agree with you...

I've missed that! Where have you been?

chasing a lady-type. i know better now, though.

Jon Ruland wrote:chasing a lady-type. i know better now, though.

An extremely dangerous activity. Climbing is MUCH safer!!

Robert 560 wrote: An extremely dangerous activity. Climbing is MUCH safer!!

tell me about it =\

Jon Ruland wrote:if we post a comment in a forum it means we want people to read it. yet with longer posts it becomes less likely that anyone will read the whole thing. i'd be willing to bet that 90% of the time when someone browsing MP comes across a gigantic post, they read only the first few sentences before their eyes glaze over and they move on to the next one. typically, this is what i do. believe it or not, people do actually want to read your comments. unfortunately, if you have an insight and feel you need to go into a lot of detail to express your thoughts, you severely lower your chances of those thoughts being heard. climbers are expert problem-solvers, and i have the utmost confidence that whatever it is we have to say can be condensed into a couple of paragraphs. as an example, look at this post. i could have easily written pages on this subject, but then no one would have read it. cheers

I'm not reading that.

wonderwoman wrote: Do they normally run away?

from me they do.

Ryan Kelly wrote:I'm not reading that.

sorry m8, deaun already beat you to that one.

Great suggestion, Jon.

[Better?]

Marc Horan wrote:Great suggestion, Jon. I know that I almost always skip the long posts. I've been guilty of posting long comments a few times, but I think that I've learned. --Marc

too long

Jon is this post inspired by my posts on 'posting info on mp'?

My eyes only glaze over when I'm really stoned!

Jon has a point. I suppose. To a point. I reckon. If you add ADD + general lack of interest to a certain topic you get this haiku I offer up.

Low attention span
Blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah
Do I really care?

JJ

dancohen wrote:Jon is this post inspired by my posts on 'posting info on mp'?

pretty much the whole thread inspired this post, yeah.

Jeremy Schlick wrote:Low attention span Blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah Do I really care?