Regarding my walls of text, I agree. Sometimes it is better to just skip them or skim them.... depending on your mood and level of patience.
I admit skipping your walls only to check worthwhile content by reading the immediate responses to those walls.
Just consider all the valuable information you are missing.
https://i.pinimg.com/474x/04/98/26/0498265e15354bee2b9e13d90a3d8782.jpgOf course I appreciatie that but cannot escape the notion that the highest appreciation a writer can give his readers is by making his points clear and concise. A ‘lazy’ writer won’t attract a crowd.
By no means meant as an attack.
Sure, fair enough.
I do consider my ongoing postings and participation as largely a brainstorming mechanism for me rather than a blog or even a publication, so there is that.
So, in that regard, I am frequently not strictly focused on my effect on possible readers or my ability to get across my ideas with clarity, rather than just common sense first impressions that come out of my keyboard, including frequent redundancies that admittedly exist.... like a chat in some regards... except a chat that admittedly has a historical reference point, and I almost never go back and delete or edit my posts (except maybe within an hour or so of posting while the ideas are still formulating, somewhat).
In other words, a large part of my motivation for writing in this forum is for myself.. and so in that regard, I am pleased if any members happen to get value from my writings, but the members do NOT tend to be my central focus.. even if there may be some incidental attempts for me to clarify some ideas that I may have initially thought were clear to me or common sense or something like that... .. so there is that.. selfish as those inclinations might be.
Edit: By the way, I agree that short posts are likely to get read more often, and even very simple ideas are more likely to be read by more members. Most of us, should recognize, as well, that there would hardly be any member(s) who reads every single post of other members, especially reading posts of someone like me who has tended to post a lot of stream of consciousness ideas (hopefully more related to bitcoin than not).
I actually would be surprised (and maybe even scared) if there were some members who read every word of my posts and have attempted to understand what I have been attempting to say with any kind of precision... so in that regard, hard to argue that there is any expectation that all posts of any member would be read with attempts at actual understanding.... that is NOT the nature of this thread or even close to the historical practice... .. this thread is more like an active chat, with of course, the historical preservation, to the extent that members do not delete their prior posts (and I fall into the "not deleting" camp, to such an extent that such a camp exists).
Edit 2 - add response to d_eddieOf course I appreciatie that but cannot escape the notion that the highest appreciation a writer can give his readers is by making his points clear and concise. A ‘lazy’ writer won’t attract a crowd.
Writing short is a difficult art to master. Harder than writing well IMO. It could be argued that "excellent writing" is a subset of "short writing".