I heartily agree, I enjoy long OPs( the interesting ones), but the old eyes are getting…well…OLD.
It’s really difficult to read through one of those huge run-on paragraphs, I usually give up, which is a shame, because some of them seem pretty interesting, it’s just too hard on the eyes.
Paragraphs people!! Please?
Read it and despair, weakling :p.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=198523
Yeah, good example, Tamerlane.
Y’couldn’t have, say, trimmed all that down to a paragraph or so?
Or even two or three well-chosen words? I’m sure I wooda got the point…
What about saying the same thing, over and over again. Any time you post in a thread, same shite, no new thought.
THAT is annoying.
Big swinging OP’s rock!
BSO is the way to go!
Ohhh… it’s soooo big Tamerlane!
I also wanted to warn you to stay away from my latest monster-sized OP in this thread Tarantula. It might make your heart stop and head explode. And I don’t wanna be liable for any near-messes on the Dope. 
They might just make me clean up.
Yeah - you just proved my point - you got 1 response. That means that either what you wrote was such shite that no-one gave enoght of a fuck to answer, or they didn’t bother reading such a huge OP.
I’ll go with option 2. (With a side order of option 1, that I can’t really bet on since I didn’t read it…)
Actually, now I have 2! So there.
7!
(It was long, though. However, hopefool was kind enough to state that in the thread title.)
How does someone even reply to something like Tamerlane’s post above? That’s the biggest problem with long OP’s, that they spawn those evil multiple quote, multiple page point-by-point responses.
Hey, I spout off at GREAT length, and no one’s ever complained.
About the length, anyway.
The subject matter, perhaps, but never the length…