Have you ever faced this situation before?

13 Comments

Let's say you write a long story about one of your normal experiences on this site and you submit it a poll, but people only comment that it's too long for their attention span. Your story is not one block of text, but properly paragraphed and is in perfect English. Ever faced this before?

This poll is too long for my attention span. /herp derp 15
Yes. How embarassing...I guess my story was too uninteresting. 16
No. My life is interesting, dammit. 9
Does IIN even publish normal experiences here? (They do.) 3
Other? (Add a short comment for our short attention spans) 5
Help us keep this site organized and clean. Thanks!
[ Report Post ]
Comments ( 13 )
  • dappled
    12 years ago

    I think you generally know what a story is about after about a paragraph. At that point, you should decide whether you're going to give an opinion or not. If you are, I think you owe the OP the courtesy of reading it all.

    I've never understood people who reply "Too long. Didn't read". That answer isn't helpful to anyone. What's the point? The only thing that can come out of it is to harass posters into writing shorter and shorter posts, continuing the trend of people not being able to concentrate for more than five seconds.

    Mind you, some posts are just verbal diarrhoea. They skit around between entirely different points and end up asking a different question than the one they intended. Sadly, that too is a product of short attention spans and modern media force-feeding us smaller and smaller chunks to satisfy our need for immediacy and their need to make advertising revenue.

    Outside of culture and the media, education, health, policing, and food are five areas that shouldn't be left purely to market forces.

    Comment Hidden ( show )
    1
    1
      -
    • Appreciate
      12 years ago

      comment's too long for my attention span ):

      Comment Hidden ( show )
      2
      2
        -
      • dappled
        12 years ago

        :P

        Comment Hidden ( show )
        0
        0
          -
        • Appreciate
          12 years ago

          now THAT, i can understand<3

          i swear i started reading "i think generalleeeh fndsighew gerwgwgh werhgw" and then started to zone out :/

          Comment Hidden ( show )
          0
          0
            -
          • dappled
            12 years ago

            Wt? ;)

            Comment Hidden ( show )
            0
            0
    • abhishek_t87
      12 years ago

      Great.. I would have loved to tag it as "Worth reading." So that people would atleast stop for a while to read it.

      Comment Hidden ( show )
      0
      0
    • wigsplitz
      12 years ago

      I agree 100%!

      Comment Hidden ( show )
      0
      0
  • pantaloonz
    12 years ago

    If you have to write a book explaining a situation, it's not meant for this site.

    Get over yourself.

    -Pantz

    Comment Hidden ( show )
    0
    0
      -
    • abhishek_t87
      12 years ago

      Do your books end at third paragraph....???
      Not mine...

      Comment Hidden ( show )
      0
      0
  • Kerris
    12 years ago

    lol I would only be interested in the length of a post if I were the site owner. It would create a bandwidth issue.

    Comment Hidden ( show )
    0
    0
  • wigsplitz
    12 years ago

    Eh, every couple sentences go off on an incest or bestiality tangent. You'll have em hooked.

    Comment Hidden ( show )
    0
    0
  • [Old Memory]
    12 years ago

    Think about who is the majority of your audience on this website: that should tell you a lot about their reading and comprehension levels.

    Comment Hidden ( show )
    0
    0
  • ThroughRock
    12 years ago

    Tell me about it, I've posted tons of great IINs and people who have not even bothered to read the post has said things like "Cool story bro" and "trololololol". They're a bunch of twats.

    Comment Hidden ( show )
    0
    0