To be turned off by really long opening posts?

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I know a bit of context and background can be important, especially given the knobs who will seize on anything to be nasty to an OP, but AIBU to think that an opening post that runs to several hundred words, goes into huge detail, and is peopled with numerous characters - DH, DM, Friend A, Friend B and Friend C, DSD and a CF thrown in for good measure are really hard to read and to just click out after the first para?

They are so long because the ops are so fucking whiny. Need a handheld. Car in the street beeped at me, I can't stop crying. Dh said hello to the lady in Tesco I think he's shagging her.

20 pages later it turns out they have had a .

Does no-one have any fucking common sense or back bone or resilience anymore?

Yes, and particularly if there are no paragraphs, I just don't bother. Don't people realise how off-putting they are?

Minestheone, ditto to all that, particularly your last sentence!

Glad I'm not the only grumpy old woman. It used to be on MN that the needy ones were the PFB crew and hung out in the parenting and sleep and feeding sections (As did I as a new mum). Now the neediness is everywhere.

The right length is the number of words needed to provide all the information required. Too long or too short, both are off-putting (to me). I would rather someone took their time to give the full details at the outset than drip-feed - something I usually take to mean that the OP is making things up to answer previous responses.

YANBU OP !

I don't mind long, and I understand why people do it, but I do mind no paragraphs!

When I read a long and overly complicated op I usually see a lack of critical thinking, a lack of self awareness from the poster and generally poor written English. I suppose though that is often why people post here, because they can't work things out for themselves.

I agree with a lot of what you've said Minestheone. I do sometimes wonder who these people are who take massive offence if someone says 'nice day' to them in the checkout queue, or pats their baby on the cheek or some such. Even stranger is the amount of posters who come on to sympathise with them and talk about 'invasion of space' etc.

I agree. It's off putting...and often with irrelevant minute details.

Worse still is a lack of paragraphs...I just can't be bothered with those posts.

Minestheoneinthegreen
They are so long because the ops are so fucking whiny. Need a handheld. Car in the street beeped at me, I can't stop crying. Dh said hello to the lady in Tesco I think he's shagging her.

20 pages later it turns out they have had a .

^ This

Does no-one have any fucking common sense or back bone or resilience anymore?

Having been on MN for several years I think that I can safely say that far too many don't. Which is why, come the next world war, this country is fucked. I was born at the end of WW2 and women like my DM and female friends and neighbours had far more balls than the majority of men these days, let alone the women. It's pathetic.