Long Posts

[Guest guest]

You know, using periods in the right places and not stringing a bunch

of sentences together with commas would certainly make it easier to

read long posts. Most of the time, it just reads like rambling and I

lose the point of what the poster is trying to say. AND, it reads as

if the poster is just ranting and raving emotionally, not

rationally. When that happens, I just give up. Maybe I'm missing

important information that way, but it just doesn't seem worth

trudging through.

JMO.

[Guest guest]

You are not alone in that feeling.

A few breaks in the composition go a long way in keeping me reading.

Most posts that make it to the bottom of the screen without any breaks

are usually deleted without being read much past the first sentence.

Chuck

wrote:

>You know, using periods in the right places and not stringing a bunch

>of sentences together with commas would certainly make it easier to

>read long posts. Most of the time, it just reads like rambling and I

>lose the point of what the poster is trying to say. AND, it reads as

>if the poster is just ranting and raving emotionally, not

>rationally. When that happens, I just give up. Maybe I'm missing

>important information that way, but it just doesn't seem worth

>trudging through.

>

>JMO.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I hate to sound picky, but when a person posts without the use of

punctuation, indentation, and/or paragraphs, I typically ignore the post.

The same goes for posts by folks who don't know how to properly quote (like

the digest user that quotes an entire digest) or those who don't take the

time to reread their posts for clarity. Some posts I get are little more

than a jumble of words and thoughts with very little cohesive thread due to

spelling, grammatical, vocabulary and formatting/structural errors. I get

around 1,000-1,500 e-mails a day and just don't have the time to interpret

the postings of those who can't follow the simple rules of netiquette and

conventional communication styles.

[Guest guest]

Speaking of long posts...LOL... whatever happened to Anne? She kind of fell

off the SB earth.

MB

Re: Long Posts

You are not alone in that feeling.

A few breaks in the composition go a long way in keeping me reading.

Most posts that make it to the bottom of the screen without any breaks

are usually deleted without being read much past the first sentence.

Chuck

wrote:

>You know, using periods in the right places and not stringing a bunch

>of sentences together with commas would certainly make it easier to

>read long posts. Most of the time, it just reads like rambling and I

>lose the point of what the poster is trying to say. AND, it reads as

>if the poster is just ranting and raving emotionally, not

>rationally. When that happens, I just give up. Maybe I'm missing

>important information that way, but it just doesn't seem worth

>trudging through.

>

>JMO.

>

>

>

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[Guest guest]

> I think everyone has got way too much time on their hands if

> they can sit around and pick on people about everything. My

> god what does this have to do with helping/supporting people

> in thier quest for weight loss?? Not everyone is as computer

> savy or intellectual as the next person, why would you try to

> point them out and make them feel inferior to the rest of the

> group. Sometimes I think people need to remember the reason

> for the group it is about SBD and weight loss and trying to

> boost one another, if you are worried about grammar maybe you

> should join an English grammar board.

It's a discussion, Sara. Nothing more, nothing less. I don't think anyone

in this thread has directed their statements at an individual. A discussion

on netiquette and similar topics is useful if for no other reason than to

let those who are new to the online community know " how to act " . In any

community, there are accepted standards of behavior; if one does not know

them, then how could one act in accordance with them?

As for picking on someone about it, I agree -- if you have time to do that,

then you've too much free time. Occasionally, someone will be kind enough

to take the time to correct someone and explain netiquette but more oft than

not that draws the ire of the individual being corrected. That would be why

I typically skip over posts that are way out there. I'm not speaking of

someone who makes one or two errors in a posting sort of thing, I'm talking

about the posting that fills a screen with no linebreaks, no periods, no

capitalization, constant misspellings, and little to no structure. It's

almost like speaking with someone who does not know the language -- it's

really that bad sometimes.

As to what does it have to do with supporting people in their quest for

weight loss, it has a great deal to do with it. To support each other, we

must be able to communicate. If someone's postings are being skipped or

ignored altogether then there's not much communication going on and very

little support. The most experienced members of this or any other group are

usually the ones you want responding to your messages. (Makes sense, they

have the most useful knowledge typically.) These are also typically the

same users who read large volumes of e-mail and simply skip over the

postings of those who cannot conform to netiquette.

Better to know than to wonder. FWIW....