When a Jelly writes really long comments, do you read it all or do you scroll through?

I scroll past. I believe that most answers can be worded succinctly with enough thought.

19 out of 20 times I scroll. That’s why I work to keep my posts brief, and hit the major trigger words
Unless I’m on fire for some reason.

I’d say most people scroll past. There are a couple of us that get wordy. I know I scroll through to get the gist, but that is about it. I know, from the comments I get on my posts, that many don’t bother to read what I right or are so bothered by it that they feel the need to either change the topic or start trying to make personal attacks.

Mostly scroll, if it is a regular thing. If it is a post from a jelly that I respect, who doesn’t usually do that, I will read it, but the the ones who do it often, nope.

Unless I am VERY interested in the subject maybe skim if not just skip it all together.

@canidmajor GA and true. If it is the occasional long post from a generally succinct Jelly, I very well may read it then.

Me too @janbb.
I also try to keep my answers short.
I try not to repeat myself AND keep my answers short. Abd brief.
Unless I’m on fire about something then I just GO, and hardly come up for air and mindlessly throw words out.
I try to put the fire out before I post though. I mean I’ll focus on Judge Judy. I’ll listen hard and especially wait for Byrd to jump in. Byrd is one half the reason I watch Judge Judy. Her real name is Jufith Shindlin (sp, which means I don’t think I spelled it right.) Does anyone know how to spell Judge Judy’s last name? Sometimes I’ll hit up Youtube to listen to 70s rock. We had the best music!!! But we didn’t have Judge Judy. But we had Hawaii 5 0.
Kids today don’t have good music and they don’t have Hawaii 5 0. If they do have Hawaii 5 0 they do it wrong.
Kids today aren’t taught shop or Home Ec. I find that unbelievable!!! No Shop or Home Ec. SMH. That’s why kids today can’t do math or drive a car….AND THEY ARE HORRIBLE SPELLER! Unlike my Boomer Generation. ALL of us can.
And the Boomers know good grammar too. And how to use periods and stuff.
We Boomers know how to keep things short and relevant.
Oh! Apparently we had “Scooby Snacks” in the 70s! I did not know that. I just heard that on the TV, because I’m listening to something about “Things only some one from the 70s would know.”
Tube tops, check.
Clackers check. Yeah they were dangerous as hell. Saw one break and go through a class window once.
Streakers, check. Brad Y once streaked down 6 hall during 5th hour and destroyed my Biology class. I got good grsdes in biology. Kids today don’t even know what Biology is. And they are always high on weed…no wait. That was us. I got confused. They should make weed legal! But if they did that I couldn’t have had any students in my class at the Jail. Did you know I used to teach little miscreants at Jail? Favorite class EVER!
Oh! Light Brite! Check. I have one on a shelf in the utility room. Also Battleship! Which kids today don’t know how to play because they never learned about grids in Home Ec because they don’t have Home Ec in school. Actually they do. Last Home Ec I subbed in, we made pancakes. I could eat one million pancakes at a time! Did you know a million has 6 0? Or is it 5….what number has 9 0s in it? Speaking of numbers, they have never found they have never found the end of Pi and you can’t eat it. What good is it??? Oh. To find circumferences. Circles are CRAZY frm a math POV ( that means Point of View).....
I’ lm tired. But everything I just said is the utmost important. Oh! Remember when MJs hair caught on fire. And @seawulf575 spelled “right” wrong.

^^ LOL thank you for a perfect example; I did read it though.

I scroll, don’t even scan. I’ve read enough in the past to know that they typically wander off-topic and become a platform for the jellies to ‘educate’ me because they know all about it.

Well I was on FYAH smudges! It doesn’t take much actually. Not when it comes to words. I could burn all day
(Did you teally read it all? LOL!)
Thanks!

How in the did that font happen??

Edit: I found how it happened….

@Dutchess_III Good catch. Thanks. And I still just scanned your long answer ;-)

Well it was a joke post anyway!

I scroll past.

tldr

Eh, I am the one of the ones posting long answers. I like to get my thoughts out. If someone doesn’t want to read it, that is their problem.

I will read or skim if it is very long

One time Caravanfan (rarebear then) clocked me for writing TLDR posts! He cut loose on me! I was like “Whoa!”
He was yelling at me about writing smaller sentances, using ONE word instead of 5 or 6 when ONE word will do.

Then I got the strong feeling he wasn’t talking about me. He was venting his frustration with another Jelly who was so long winded. Saying to me what he wanted to say to them.

Nonetheless I started monitoring my posts more carefully.

It’s frustrating for sure.

It depends on the content. If I can see it’s nothing but rambling then I scroll past. But I more often read because I want to know what they are saying. I realize that I learn a lot from long posts with quality.

@Mimishu1995

GAGA!*

*Great Approach, Great Answer!

I mostly read all of it. The only times I don’t are with a very small number if Jellies who either make things up, or who have a (regular) viewpoint that is so much in conflict from what I know or believe to be correct, that it doesn’t make sense to read the whole thing, because I’m not likely to respond.

I read all of Dutchess’s long post. I too had clackers, and enjoyed lite brites.

It’s only annoying for me now because I’ll see a long post with yarnladys pic knowing it’s not her because she’s not very active, and when she is active she usually doesn’t write paragraph after paragraph.

Yeah. Giving me a headache too.

No.

LOL @Caravanfan!

I also usually bow-out when it becomes a pissing match. I stop following and don’t get a build up of activity for you.

(thought I was answering the other Meta Q so I’ll leave it here and repost it there.)

It truly matter on who it is coming from.
Some people I barely can read 3 words from them. Others, I love what they have to say and they know how to make a valid point without pontificating..

I can pontificate! Wanna see me?? I can! I really REALLY REALLY REALLY can! I can talk a lot too! I can write lots and LOTS of words on one post. Want me to demonstrate? But I can’t spell too good.

I wonder why some regularly do that. Are they insecure? Do they think it makes them look knowledgeable or important?

Those that have to explain are typically wrong or losing.

But what they are actually right, and STILL do it? Repeat themselves over and over with different words?

^^ By definition, they are undiagnosed..

Undiagnosed with what @Forever_Free

It depends. We’ve all been guilty of having a few glasses of wine and seeing the text, and thinking “maybe later…” because you have to zoom in and make sure you read it correctly…

Ha ha, @Blackberry, I remember “flunking” once or twice back in the day…. ;-D