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Walls of text; What does it take for you to consider something a Wall of Text?
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Tinny	Apr 16 2016, 09:00 PM Post #1
Posts: 6,060 Group: Super Moderator Member #12,355 Joined: May 24, 2015 Gender Not Specified Favourite Anime Silver Spoon, Fate/Zero, Legend of Galactic Heroes, Space Patrol Luluco, Psycho-pass, Miss Kobayashi What Browser do you use? Chrome, Edge Favourite Manga Wizard's Soul ~Holy War of Love~	Just as in the description, what makes a wall of text for you? How long does the post have to be? Any formatting issues that make it a wall of text? Edited by Tinny, Apr 16 2016, 09:01 PM.
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Goddess Ultimecia	Apr 16 2016, 09:03 PM Post #2
Posts: 10,145 Group: RP Moderator Member #8,473 Joined: October 26, 2012 Gender Male Country None	Tin Man Apr 16 2016, 09:00 PM Just as in the description, what makes a wall of text for you? How long does the post have to be? Any formatting issues that make it a wall of text? In excess of 1,500 words, with poor breaking in between ala Paragraphs. Most people I run into Youtube on and the like seem to think two paragraphs that have about 300 words each is a wall of text. I personally think those people are likely homunculus. It's clear their brain didn't develop enough to grasp an attention span of longer than five seconds, I find it amazing most of them don't speak like Orks in WH40K. Edited by Goddess Ultimecia, Apr 16 2016, 09:06 PM.
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+ Pyrus	Apr 16 2016, 09:17 PM Post #3
Posts: 39,342 Group: Legend Member #5,088 Joined: August 1, 2010 Gender Not Specified Country Chile	If it's a subject I don't care about, something as little as 10 sentences can be a wall of text. Even for something I'm passionate about, a wall of text can be two or three paragraphs (either spaced out or clumped into one). I just don't really like reading that much.
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Buuberries	Apr 16 2016, 09:20 PM Post #4
No Posts: 7,150 Group: Members Member #8,753 Joined: December 30, 2012 Gender Not Specified Country None Favourite Anime The Passion of Christ What Browser do you use? Christianity Favourite Manga The Bible	depends on the medium im reading. if it's an academic journal or a textbook, i'm fine with blocky paragraphs. however, if it's on a forum and the person's writing style is annoying in the first place, then i'd rather have it broken down into smaller pieces.
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~~Helvius Pertinax Augustus~~	Apr 16 2016, 10:06 PM Post #5
What will you do when you get old? Posts: 1,096 Group: Suspended Member #12,915 Joined: February 8, 2016 Gender Not Specified Country United States Favourite Anime Don't actually watch anime What Browser do you use? Internet Explorer Favourite Manga Don't read manga	The length doesn't matter so much as the punctuation and formatting.



Tim	Apr 16 2016, 10:15 PM Post #6
Forum Royalty Posts: 7,535 Group: Prince Member #4,562 Joined: November 1, 2009 Gender Male Country New Zealand Favourite Anime Hunter x Hunter What Browser do you use? Chrome Favourite Manga Hunter x Hunter	Goddess Ultimecia Apr 16 2016, 09:03 PM Tin Man Apr 16 2016, 09:00 PM Just as in the description, what makes a wall of text for you? How long does the post have to be? Any formatting issues that make it a wall of text? In excess of 1,500 words, with poor breaking in between ala Paragraphs. Most people I run into Youtube on and the like seem to think two paragraphs that have about 300 words each is a wall of text. I personally think those people are likely homunculus. It's clear their brain didn't develop enough to grasp an attention span of longer than five seconds, I find it amazing most of them don't speak like Orks in WH40K. Youtube comments aren't really a good medium for large amount of texts so with an average reply of a few sentences or maybe a paragraph anything much bigger is a wall of text by comparison. I tend to judge a wall of text by something that takes me more than a few minutes to read and understand - these don't often bother me except for when a) it could really have been written far more concisely, and b) it is something that doesn't interest me.



Goddess Ultimecia	Apr 16 2016, 10:21 PM Post #7
Posts: 10,145 Group: RP Moderator Member #8,473 Joined: October 26, 2012 Gender Male Country None	Quote: Youtube comments aren't really a good medium for large amount of texts so with an average reply of a few sentences or maybe a paragraph anything much bigger is a wall of text by comparison. Fair enough I suppose, although my issue mostly if not exclusively lies in countless experiences of arguments being outright ignored and continuing to echochamber their stances that were countered or atleast were held up to scrutiny in a previous post. I have some salt, I admit.
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+ Steve	Apr 17 2016, 01:32 AM Post #8
Greetings. I will be your waifu this season. Posts: 19,471 Group: Legend Member #5,710 Joined: February 7, 2011 Gender Male Country United Kingdom Favourite Anime Hunter x Hunter(2011) What Browser do you use? Mozilla Firefox Favourite Manga Berserk all day erry day	Definitely formatting for me, if it goes over like 5-10 lines and has horrendous spacing then it becomes a chore to read and I often just skiff through it because it hurts to read things that are so poorly put together, especially considering they're usually big rants about stuff I don't care about and I'm purposefully trying to make this post quite long without decent spacing to illustrate the point I'm making about how text walls become a chore to read and how they're also a chore to read when they're a big rant, sort of like this post about text wall rants is becoming, also don't worry about using periods they're for suckers commas all the way fool this is how you write a proper mess although if you were going for the full deal you might want to not use commas or even apostrophes I just can't bring myself not to this is hurting my brain enough oh my God what am I doing, someone save my soul from this hellish, bland and disgusting wall of text dripping with inane rant juices probably nobody will read anyway also this is quite a lot of words so that probably makes me really mad even though I'm actually super chill right now and this has taken me 2-3 minutes so far, maybe that could be useful in a job quite decent at typing up s* although this s* happens to be coming out my own mind so it rolls out like no tomorrow 'cause it happens to be a mess up here anyway this sums up why text walls are bad! If you read all that and don't want to kill yourself you are more evolved than most, good job you. TL;DR at a certain point it becomes so damn hard to figure out your place and then if you lose track or look away for a second you have to sift through garbage to find it again. It's interesting how visually appealing just a few tiny dots and lines such as ' . and , can make something, even if you know nothing of punctuation it just makes it flow better.
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Goddess Ultimecia	Apr 17 2016, 02:11 AM Post #9
Posts: 10,145 Group: RP Moderator Member #8,473 Joined: October 26, 2012 Gender Male Country None	Steve Apr 17 2016, 01:32 AM Definitely formatting for me, if it goes over like 5-10 lines and has horrendous spacing then it becomes a chore to read and I often just skiff through it because it hurts to read things that are so poorly put together, especially considering they're usually big rants about stuff I don't care about and I'm purposefully trying to make this post quite long without decent spacing to illustrate the point I'm making about how text walls become a chore to read and how they're also a chore to read when they're a big rant, sort of like this post about text wall rants is becoming, also don't worry about using periods they're for suckers commas all the way fool this is how you write a proper mess although if you were going for the full deal you might want to not use commas or even apostrophes I just can't bring myself not to this is hurting my brain enough oh my God what am I doing, someone save my soul from this hellish, bland and disgusting wall of text dripping with inane rant juices probably nobody will read anyway also this is quite a lot of words so that probably makes me really mad even though I'm actually super chill right now and this has taken me 2-3 minutes so far, maybe that could be useful in a job quite decent at typing up s* although this s* happens to be coming out my own mind so it rolls out like no tomorrow 'cause it happens to be a mess up here anyway this sums up why text walls are bad! If you read all that and don't want to kill yourself you are more evolved than most, good job you. TL;DR at a certain point it becomes so damn hard to figure out your place and then if you lose track or look away for a second you have to sift through garbage to find it again. It's interesting how visually appealing just a few tiny dots and lines such as ' . and , can make something, even if you know nothing of punctuation it just makes it flow better. Well I write as a hobby of mine so that wall was weak-sauce, could scale it with a hop from my toes.
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~~Doggo Champion 2k17~~	Apr 17 2016, 06:53 AM Post #10
Posts: 7,931 Group: GTFO Member #6,380 Joined: June 20, 2011 Country United States Favourite Anime here comes What Browser do you use? o shit waddup! Favourite Manga dat boi	If a person doesn't understand how to break up paragraphs, anything could easily become a wall of text. I guess I would consider a wall of text to be anything more than 3 or 4 paragraphs clumped together. It's a basic grammar skill, people.



Tinny	Apr 17 2016, 01:32 PM Post #11
Posts: 6,060 Group: Super Moderator Member #12,355 Joined: May 24, 2015 Gender Not Specified Favourite Anime Silver Spoon, Fate/Zero, Legend of Galactic Heroes, Space Patrol Luluco, Psycho-pass, Miss Kobayashi What Browser do you use? Chrome, Edge Favourite Manga Wizard's Soul ~Holy War of Love~	For me, I can actually read quite a bit so long as the formatting is okay, but of the formatting is bad, like a lack of periods, even a few sentences of text with like 60 characters can become disorienting to read.
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Sam	Apr 18 2016, 04:18 AM Post #12
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