Mm, that (tl - dr)

[Madame Adequate]

That's what you people get for being up yourselves and censoring a perfectly valid phrase

Anyway yeah depends on the conversation and poster. I'll read a huge post written by some people because I enjoy something ineffable about their writing, or because I know they'll say something I find interesting. I will read through most of an EoEO thread easily because Paul is a preliterate savage. Steve is lucky if I can read three consecutive lines of his. I read NCG's posts long enough to find a way to insult him. I don't read anything written by the dutch, on general principle.

[Cuchulainn]

What's your limit before you hit the...

I skipped the rest but I can assume you're talking about the how much you'll take from someone before putting a bin liner over their face & beat them with sticks. I'd say I draw the line at the finger poke.

You're Welcome.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I read NCG's posts long enough to find a way to insult him.

smurfing leprechaun.

[Rebellious Eagle]

Most of the time, when people post intimidating giant blocks of text, I just skim. You know, so many threads to read, so little time. :/

[Rodarian]

That's why Psychotic is all up in my about this.

I have a filthy mind... But I read that comment as something very differently! X_X

[Rantz]

I'm not going to mention any names (like Iceglow), but run-on sentences and paragraphs longer than 4-5 lines are sure ways to make me skim or skip.

[qwertysaur]

Wow, at least when I break the forums I keep it to one thread so the rest of the forums stays happy and unbroken

@Topic, when I get bored of the paragraph, I'll stop reading. Even if it means I stop mid word.

[Yar]

In your post I made it to the ")"...

So yeah

[Bunny]

Normally, anything more than two paragraphs gets skimmed over or ignored completely. However, it depends heavily on the person posting it. If I dislike the person's writing style or just dislike them in general, I won't read anything more than a sentence or two because I can typically understand the post. If I like the person, I'll read somewhere around four paragraphs.

More often than not, I skim the post or ignore it entirely.

[Yar]

I tldr everything Bunny types

[Tavrobel]

I like longer posts because it gives me something to read.

[Clo]

As long as there are well spaced paragraphs, then I will read it. Paragraphs are a wonderful thing, and text walls are not fun.

Although,
I really don't like it
when people start new paragraphs
before a sentence has ended,
or after only one sentence.
It seems to happen a lot in forums.
I also probably won't read it if your post
looks like this.


... It looks like I wrote a poem.

[Rye]

I'm not going to mention any names (like Iceglow), but run-on sentences and paragraphs longer than 4-5 lines are sure ways to make me skim or skip.

This. But if things are formatted well, I'll read things endlessly. You'd be surprised - I read intensively things by a lot of posters, ones that would be surprised by that. That's why I always know everyone's recent LJ news. I keep up with people's lives. :shiny:

I really don't like it
when people start new paragraphs
before a sentence has ended,
or after only one sentence.
It seems to happen a lot in forums.
I also probably won't read it if your post
looks like this.

... rofl, I am SO bad about doing that over MSN. It's like a horrible poem.

[Iceglow]

Well, lets face it...I'm probably one of the biggest posters on EoFF in terms of average length of post. I'd love to see BoB do a chart of that! Therefore I do tend to read other people's posts in full as a courtesy. Though if I'm late to a thread by several pages of posts and intense debate I'll often because I'm pressed for time skim read the thread, get a general feel for where the debate is headed or what it is about and then post my opinions if I have anything relevant to the discussion.

As I said already, I am often pressed for time meaning sometimes my sentence structure could be perhaps a little better (there is nothing wrong with long sentences so long as there are sufficient reasons for this, the problem comes when there are huge posts where punctuation is ignored completely) because I haven't had the time to proof read my post properly (I'm a writer after all, I don't do my own proof reading, I have Psy for that!) However I do try to make sure my posts are as coherent as possible, often editing it super fast to fix glaring grammar mistakes or to take out whole sentences/paragraphs where I've either not been very clear or repeated a previous point in different terms (I do that sometimes when I'm writing, hence I often need a proof reader)

I also read NCGs posts long enough to find an insult in there, I can't help it, it comes naturally.

Edit: Also yeah Clo on msn something you probably wouldn't expect, I actually write horribly. I'll put part sentences up, finish sentences on another send (not due to length but due to me hitting return instinctively and sending before I was truly ready to) conversations with me on msn generally incorporate 5 lines sent to cover just 2 lines written.

[Momiji]

If it's longer than one screen length and isn't very interesting to begin with, I'm going to skip it. Sorry.