[SP] SP's and Walls of Texts

[KDude]

Btw y'all, the above "wall o' text" example is an exaggeration. Not to pick on INTP's, but I think they are more realistic TypoC examples of serving up a wall of text --- except, I can tell what they say is meaningful -- it's just too extensive for a conversation, for my tastes. It's like reading Kant's a Critique of Pure Reason at times --- which, btw, I've never read either. Got the cliffnotes though

 

[Heinel]

Wait, you mean that wall wasn't copypasta? You actually typed that up?

For me personally, it doesn't matter how long the text is, as long as it is dense enough to keep my interest. I move on as soon as I get the information.

 

[ChocolateMoose123]

Btw y'all, the above "wall o' text" example is an exaggeration. Not to pick on INTP's, but I think they are more realistic TypoC examples of serving up a wall of text --- except, I can tell what they say is meaningful -- it's just too extensive for a conversation, for my tastes. It's like reading Kant's a Critique of Pure Reason at times --- which, btw, I've never read either. Got the cliffnotes though

That's because they have a wall of text for every sentence in their original wall of text.

 

[KDude]

Wait, you mean that wall wasn't copypasta? You actually typed that up?

For me personally, it doesn't matter how long the text is, as long as it is dense enough to keep my interest. I move on as soon as I get the information.

Hah no way.. It was from Uncyclopedia.

 

[stellar renegade]

Hah no way.. It was from Uncyclopedia.

Nice.

I actually thought you wrote that all up yourself at first, and I was about to say, that's such a wasted effort. hah.

 

[mcmartinez84]

Nice.

I actually thought you wrote that all up yourself at first, and I was about to say, that's such a wasted effort. hah.

Lol, +1

 

[Rictor33]

I am an SP and I always write walls of text.. Usually on sports websites, blogs.. I always have so many ideas and try to tie them all together.. I do realize that few people have the attention span to read my entire 'wall of text' so I get less responses than the idiot one-liners get.. Kind of insulting.

 

[Walking Tourist]

I agree with Hall74. Long posts are OK as long as they don't look like endless words that go on forever. If it's nothing but a massive number of words, I'll rub my eyes and read something else. My eyesight isn't the best and looking at those walls of text actually makes me go cross eyed!!!
White space is very essential.
Organized helps, too. I am not naturally organized so I appreciate reading something that is very understandable and doesn't force my mind into an excessive amount of work (making order out of someone else's chaos). I have enough to deal with in handling my own internal and external chaos; I really don't need to try to understand someone else's.

 

[lilikoi]

I never read walls of text. If a paragraph is more than ten lines long, I start feeling an urge to ignore it. I can read long documents, but they have to be broken into sections and paragraphs and it has to be interesting and logically ordered as someone already said. I hate when people are verbose and flowery with their words and when people skip around making tangential points. By the same token, when I write, I always use paragraphs and I always order my points in a logical order.

 

[eldarwen]

My bf is ESFP and he is prone to walls of text AKA verbal diarrea. When I'm in a good/neutral mood, it's amusing, but when I'm annoyed, it's highly irritating.

 

[Randomnity]

I auto-skip anything longer than:

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or so, regardless of content (much less if it's a boring topic already, or someone like Victor/SW). If it's an interesting topic, I'll read (well skim) many paragraphs in one post as long as they aren't longer than 4-5 lines each. The enter key is your friend!!!

 

[Destiny]

Nope, I don't ignore walls of texts, because I tend to do the same myself too.

Writing walls of texts is actually my second nature. I have this tendency to write paragraphs after paragraphs in emails and text messages.

 

[Zay]

If it's interesting and/or important to me I will read it, otherwise I will skim it or just skip it completely.

 

[Captain_Invincible]

If it's relevant, yes.
Not relevant, no.

 

[Sil]

Most people wouldn't read a wall of text like that.

 

[Kheledon]

Personally, I can fairly easily digest a wall of text. I read a lot. It doesn't bother me. My ISFp wife, however, can get paralyzed by a wall of text ... lengthy instructions and the like. She has trouble applying for jobs because, these days, almost all applications are handled online and involve a lengthy list of "things to do" to complete and file an application. For years, I have had to do this for her. She either can't (or just won't) meticulously digest each and every requirement of the application and complete them all. She'll fill out some or most of the application form and hit "submit" (thinking she's done), when, in fact, she left out several key things demanded by the employer, and her applications is just filed away as "incomplete" with no action taken on it. Walls of text bother her a lot. They can even be debilitating.

 

[Ribonuke]

I CAN read walls of text, but I shudder at the mere sight of them (I'm even known to GENERATE them every now and then, whenever I'm interested enough in something that I actually WANT to invest more analytical thought as opposed to just jumping to the first calculated conclusion with the available information.)

Depends on the size of the wall, though. I usually skim through to see if the bricks themselves have integrity or anything of interest before I attempt actually diving in.

 

[Silent]

Walls of text practically blind me. I don't know how to start reading something that long. If it's not a book or something for fun then, it's just totally daunting. I mean it's like trying to read Russian when you don't even speak Russian. I have a learning disability that explains a bit of why reading is already a chore for me, but huge walls of texts floor me.

 

[Forever]

[MENTION=26269]Kheledon[/MENTION] I don't think you should compare and contrast you and your wife where you're positive and [MENTION=26289]Silent[/MENTION] is struggling or at least balance it out.

 

[Silent]

I do struggle, but I have to learn to deal with the problem.