Posts are getting too long to read

[Monty27]

Posts are getting so long. That's all.

Because if they add on details in a later post people tear them apart for drip feeding.

There's an awful lot of unecessary details in some posts.

I've often started to write an opening post, but by the time I've put in this qualifier and that qualifier and explained something else in a bit more detail in order to avoid giving an opening for abuse to some unintelligent thug I've just thought 'nah I can't be bothered' and deleted the whole thing.

Don't worry about where to put paragraphs

Any paragraphs are better than no paragraphs

Just break up that wall any way you can

Maybe you could skip mumsnet and try the 'those aren't my' books instead?

The ones I really hate are where people have copied and pasted entire fucking articles. Put a link, I'll read it if I can be arsed.

But yes, the accusations of drip feeding have a lot to do with it.

I personally think any more than 5 lines and you need to be thinking about a new paragraph but I have no idea if that's grammatical correct

Drip-feeding isn't about not including enough detail in an OP, it's a specific way of posting e.g 'AIBU to hate MIL?' and a post about how MIL doesn't wash her towels very often and people respond based on that and then the OP later goes on to say 'but...she called me a fat fucking bitch as well'.

I've seen all sorts of things being branded drip feeding though I personally agree with the above definition

Sometimes if it is a short post the point is missed and the poster gets lots of advice which isnt relevant or posters say they need more info in order to help.

No it's not about not including enough detail, but that's how people are treating it these days. Ergo, longer OPs because they're concerned about being flamed rather than helped.

I think people are worried about being pounced on for drip feeding or not being real etc and all the other load of crap people say......but please don't just have a massive long thread, at least put it in paragraphs as I think some people Just can't be bother reading it all.
Short and to the point but all the required info, posters can always ask for more info if needed.

Yup.

I tend to read the first half dozen sentences and last four or five sentences, if it's a whopper with no paragraphs.

I go cross eyed if there are too many characters with walk on parts - MILs, DPs, SNXH, BIL's bridesmaids, NDNs and work colleagues.

Having said that - am I imagining a topic that included a list of the parties involved? I'm sure there was one with a 'dramatis personae' and very helpful it was too.

I’m afraid if a post is very long then I don’t read it. And it’s always the very long posts that have no paragraphs.

Thanks for the supporters.
But seriously. This is a forum. It's just that ppl need to get to the point. There's so many other posters that do so.
Hth
Eek! Hard hat is donned.

I do sometimes feel guilty for giving up on long posts.
But they can become quite complicated and confusing very quickly.
I console myself that other people will have more patience and are then able to help the OP

Yanbu! But what is really surprising is the length of some of the replies that people type out! I always scroll past those but hopefully the op might read them.

Yup
I could tell you a very very long story about my life in the last week. But I daresay it would bore ppl to death

I love a good long post. It sets the scene and means we can avoid 300 questions about the name of the dog, or why the taxi driver wasn’t wearing trainers, or whatever.

I do agree, OP.

Get to the point people! And paragraphs. Ignore those twats who go on about drip feeding. How over invested do you have to be to resent an updat fksk

There's drip feeding and there's drip feeding though . I remember a thread once where op said something like "we've run out of heating oil and aren't getting an oil delivery for another couple of days wibu to book me and my 4 kids into a hotel?" And everyone replied you can live without heating for a couple of days! Wear jumpers, sit under blankets, borrow fan heaters, use hot water bottles etc. Loads of replies. Then op came back and said "ah but I live off grid and we don't have any electricity either" cue a lot of indignant tutting "well you might have mentioned THAT" !

It’s difficult to say whether yabu or yanbu. My reasons for saying this are 29 fold.

Point 1....

I suppose that there is an element of what is considered a reasonable assumption when declaring something a drip feed. There are also a minority of goady drip feeds.

Yes there are definitely goady (troll) dripfeeds, where they’ve deliberately made the op look totally U, sit back and then drip in something which completely changed things.