I used to wonder why I don’t spend more time in Great Debates, and now I was just reminded of why. In the thread about would the conservatives be better off without the religious right, I see too many posts with huge chunks of quotes stacked up four and five high. Then the poster inserts a few original lines. When I see this my eyes glaze over and whatever point may have been made is lost on me.
If you want to communicate, please don’t make your post so visually repellent. Show come consideration for readers and whittle down the quote to the minimum jist of what you’re talking about. If you want to cover several points in a quote, break them up. Intersperse your replies between each of the points. It just means you have to add more vB coding, is that so hard?
Sorry, if reading your posts is hard on my eyes, I’ll tune out. Too bad if you had something good to say because I’m gonna miss it.
) going on at the same time. So in order to make sure that everybody else knows exactly which strawman you’re demolishing with an ICBM, you sometimes include the whole previous several posts’ worth of back-and-forth, because otherwise folks would have to scroll way back up to see what exactly led up to your use of nukes (or, worse, have to reload an earlier page).